The KDE Education Project Tour

The KDE education project  is a collection of free educational software.

Students, parents, children and teachers, can freely use KDE software, copy it, modify it to their needs and enjoy learning!

Tux Paint

Tux Paint is  free, open source drawing program designed for primary students.

TUXPAINT

Google has a define function

Google added a feature that allows you to use google to find the meaning of any word.
Preface your search term with “define:” and google will display appropriate definitions from multiple different sources.
Below I show how to google define “blog.”Google  Search for the Following 
define: blog
  
  
Thomas Edison Quotations
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”

Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organise, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet.
The advantages of using social bookmarking are:
All your bookmarks are in one place regardless of you loction or the computer you are using.
Share your bookmarks with a group of colleagues and see their bookmarks. Promote your websites and blogs.
Listed below are a few social bookmarking sites.  
 Furl
Stumbleupon
del.icio.us

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

Free Language Courses

Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you’re learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses. Native speakers and a friendly instructor guide you through a unique experience for refining the art of foreign conversation.

If you can’t be a good example . . . then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning

Emailing photos and uploading photos to blogs.

I found a great application called shrinkpic that automatically shrink photos to attach to emails or upload to your blog. Once installed on your computer you never have to do anything! It works automatically and silently in the background.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. 

How to send an attachment in edumail

sending_an_attachment_in_edumail.doc

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Software For Starving Students

When you go into court you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people that weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

 Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organised for students (but available to anyone. The cd can be downloaded at http://softwarefor.org/

  1. 7-Zip 
  2. MP3Gain
  3. Notepad++
  4. OpenOffice.org
  5. Paint.NET
  6. Pidgin
  7. POV-Ray
  8. PuTTY
  9. Scribus
  10. Spybot S&D
  11. Stellarium
  12. SuperTux
  13. Thunderbird
  14. Tortoise SVN
  15. Tux Typing 2
  16. µTorrent
  17. VLC Media Player 
  18. WinDirStat
  19. Wink
  20. winLAME
  21. XAMPP
  22. Ant Renamer
  23. Audacity
  24. AutoGK
  25. Blender
  26. Celestia
  27. ClamWin
  28. Dia
  29. Exact Audio Copy 
  30. FileZilla
  31. Firefox
  32. Foobar2000
  33. Freeciv
  34. GeoGebra 
  35. Icebreaker
  36. InfraRecorder
  37. Inkscape
  38. jMemorize
  39. Juice Receiver
  40. KeePass
  41. MozBackup

Edublogs

I have added the following guides on the tutorial page: Setting up a Edublog (by Rachael Williams and Getting Started with Edublogs by John Pearce. I hope you find them useful.

In Montana a group of students let three goats loose in their high school as a prank. Before they let them go, they painted numbers on the sides of the goats: 1, 2, 4. Local school administrators spent most of the day looking for #3.