StarDate: 20th. February, 2010.
FREE EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE SITES
A tool used to find the perfect tools!
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Free Educational Software for Learners Video
BRIEF ADVERTISEMENT
You teach at a challenging school and the pay could be better..... You strongly feel about the whole-school approach to teaching and learning, but dang it's sooo expensive..... You frequently dip your hands into your pockets to cater to the needs of your 'adorable' students, but realise that at the end of the day you have no money for yourself to buy your girlfriend/boyfriend chicken and chips.....You have a strong belief in reflecting and lesson planning for your dynamic array of students, but it's sooo expensive and your employers say the same thing too....
If you suffer from two of more of these harsh realities, and you like 'freeness fuh so', then fear no more my fellow teachers.... the above hyperlink is our light at the end of the tunnel!!!
DESCRIPTION
There are numerous Free Education Software sites on the internet that indeed provide the definitive Software Tools that can be utilised by teachers to achieve most of their objectives from the Technology perspective. With greater focus on the holistic development of students, creative, attractive, innovative, fun and entertaining means of lesson planning and presentation must be incorporated. This is usually achieved by the usage of available software that is very expensive and difficult to operate. On the other hand, Free Educational Software sites provide tools as well as software that are relatively easy to use to make teaching more effective and efficient.Best of all, these Educational Software and Software Tools are free, so they can be accessed and used by virtually anyone to achieve desired results and propagate the education system into the technology oriented future.
USES/RELEVANCE
The uses and relevance the free educational software site will be discussed in relation to some software tools . These can be accessed for free at this and many other free education software sites on the internet.
Firstly, Audacity will be discussed. But before we do that, it should be noted that although the homepage for Audacity is given in the hyperlink, it is very easy to find it at the free educational software site which is the main focus of this blog entry. Audacity is a free audio editing software that has a range of uses relevant to teachers including live recording, sound mixing and CD burning. It should be noted the functions of audacity are outlined at the software site so teachers know what can be done with the software as well as a nearby link is provided for easy download.
Another powerful advantage of using free educational software sites, is the fact that great software titles that are free and relevant to teachers, but not so popular can easily be found. The perfect example of this is Avidemux. Avidemux is a powerful video editing software that can be used with all popular formats of video including DVD for editing video for classroom presentations. Again, the download hyperlink is conveniently given at the free educational software website.
Free Educational Software Sites provide a very wide range of free Software Tools and Education Software for teachers to utilise at their heart's pleasure.With their ease of use, zero cost factor and comprehensive software capabilities, teachers have little excuse for being negative about the availability of powerful tools necessary for technology-based learning.
REFERENCES
Free education software. Retrieved February 20th, 2010 from
Youtube- all educaitonal software for learners of all ages. Retrieved February 20th, 2010 from
Audacity: free audio editor and recorder. Retrieved February 20th, 2010 from
Avidemux- main page. Retrieved Februay 20th, 2010 from
Interesting point Andrea...
ReplyDeleteIt was mentioned by many teachers at Fifth Company Baptist School (Our Practicum Course School Base) that students do get bored with software integrated strategies very quickly and that variety is the key...
Free Educational software now this is wonderful. These sites can definately be used in the near future to enhance the use and integration of technology in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great way of bringing awareness to individuals who dont have a clue about how easy these software is to access. Very Informative.
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