Sites

Web Sites - Free and Open Source Educational Software

The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows - comprehensive list of software http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
An archive of the Web's best Open Source software http://www.osliving.com/
Wikipedia online list of open source software packages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages
DMOZ Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/
Open Source Windows - online list of the best free Windows software http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
Open Source Mac - list of the best free Mac software http://www.opensourcemac.org/
Open Source Initiative - stewards of the Open Source Definition http://www.opensource.org/
Open Source Solutions - Blog by Categories http://press.teleinteractive.net/oss/
World's largest Open Source software development web site - more than 100,000 projects http://sourceforge.net/
Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software http://freshmeat.net/
Open Source Development Labs http://www.osdl.org/
Robotics software list - compiled by dmoz open directory project http://dmoz.org/Computers/Robotics/
Free Education on the Internet http://www.free-ed.net/
MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/
Public Open Source and Freeware software development web site http://www.openwares.org/
Wikipedia free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Free Computer Books http://freecomputerbooks.com/
Linux Australia http://www.linux.org.au/

Schools - Learning resources for home and school for Primary, Secondary and Pre-School http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
Simple End User Linux / Educational - Linux for teachers, parents and students http://www.seul.org/edu/
Organization for Free Software Education and Teaching - FreeDUC Linux CD http://www.ofset.org
KDE Edutainment Project - Linux educational software for kids 3 to 18 http://edu.kde.org
Link open source resources for schools http://www.schoolforge.net
News site for Open Source in schools http://www.opensourceschools.org
Free Software in Education http://www.gnu.org/education
GOVIA Ostensible Video, Imagery and Audio - multimedia repository http://govia.osef.org
Education use of Debian Linux http://wiki.debiam.net/?DebianEdu
K12Linux in Schools Project http://www.k12os.org
School Time software list - compiled by the dmoz open directory project http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/
AI software list - compiled by the dmoz open directory project http://dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/
AI-Tools - online space and toolbox for Open-Source Artificial Intelligence http://www.ai-tools.org/
Simultrans - online economic and transport simulation game http://www.simutrans.de

Australian Education Resources

Education Network Australia - Australia's free online network for educators http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go
Open Education Wiki - community repository for information about the use of FOSS in education http://openeducation.org.au/
Open Source Victoria - is an industry cluster that provides services and technology related to FOSS http://www.osv.org.au/
Victorian Essential Learning Standards website http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/index.html
Australian Bureau of Statitics - Education Services http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/cashome.nsf/Home/Entry Page.es

UK Education Resources

BBC Learning http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/
BBC Schools http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
Department for Children, Schools and Families http://www.dfes.gov.uk/
OFSTED - Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/
The Times - Education Supplement http://www.tes.co.uk/
Tutor Hunt - free connection between Students and Tutors http://www.tutorhunt.com/links.asp
Private Tutors - free service for Tutors to list their tuition services and for students to locate suitable tutors http://www.Tutors4Me.co.uk

The Bedford Public Library - Basic Computer Concepts, Internet and World Wide Web Concepts http://www.bedford.lib.nh.us/Overview.htm
GrassRootsDesign - Introduction to Computers, Introduction to Web Development http://www.grassrootsdesign.com/intro/toc.php
Introduction to Computers - school level tutorial http://www.fayette.k12.il.us/99/Intro2Comp/introduction_to_computers.html
Howstuffworks - computer tour using video http://videos.howstuffworks.com/howstuffworks/23-computer-tour-video.htm
WikiBooks - Computer Hardware http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Computer_Hardware
Wikipedia - Personal computer hardware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_hardware

Petnet - promoting socially responsible pet ownership http://www.petnet.com.au/default.asp
Pets on the Web http://www.pet.net.au/pet_sites.htm
RSPCA Australia http://www.rspca.org.au/
Pet Industry Association Australia http://www.piaa.net.au/
Petalia A World of Petcare http://www.petalia.com.au/ Other Interesting Information
One laptop per child http://laptop.org/
The Seven-Day Week and the Meanings of the Names of the Days http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/days.html
Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters - part of SourceForge http://slashdot.org/
ThinkGeek - Stuff for people who like technology - part of SourceForge http://thinkgeek.com/
Freshmeat - information about the latest software - part of SourceForge http://freshmeat.net/
SourceForge - software distribution site http://sourceforge.net/
AARNET mirror - Australian Academic Research Network mirror http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/
CanOpenER - Canadian Open Source Education and Research http://www.canopener.ca/
FileHippo - fast download of latest software http://www.filehippo.com/

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