Free Software
Here are some great free pieces of software that you can add to your computers. They will make teaching and lesson plans easier, more fun and downright up there on the technology scale.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:
- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- And more! See the complete list of features.
Google Earth is a powerful platform for creating, exploring, and visualizing location-specific information. Check the boxes under the “Layers” and “Places” sections in the left sidebar to see how people and organizations use Google Earth to share their visions of the world - or download a Google Earth KML file from someone like this guy. You can find more on the Google Earth Community, the Google Earth Blog and the Ogle Earth Blog.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Promethean’s free, online resource center providing educators from around the globe the ability to share new and innovative lessons, and to access an abundance of learning resources for immediate use with the Activboard teaching solution.
Windows Live Writer Beta is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog.
Wikispaces lets you create simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together. Feel free to look around, make a new space, get help, or contact us if you have any questions. We’ve also got a series of brief tours on how to get the most out of Wikispaces.
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You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address and a name. You can blog as much as you want for free, your blog can be public to the world or private for just your friends, and our paid upgrades are completely optional. Check out what our signup process looks like.
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