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| There is such a lot of free material available online. Its worth searching to find exactly what you're looking for. Here are a few sites to get you started. |
| Mindomo Free online mind mapping software |
50 open source resources for online writers Just what it says. Lots of free resources |
FLV Player Download this free software for playing Flash video from UTube etc |
| FreeMind Free mind mapping software. |
Another source and an example. And one more site to download it from (just in case the others don't work) StickMan Tutorials from here. |
Scratch Free download of Scratch which is used to create animations, games and interactive content. Interaction is created by dragging, dropping and sequencing programming blocks.Great for Middle Primary onwards |
 Create-a-Scape"A mediascape is composed of sounds and images placed outside in your local area. To see the images and hear the sounds you need a handheld computer (PDA) and a pair of headphones. An optional GPS unit can automatically trigger the images and sounds in the right places." Download software here |
Image
Well 3.0 for the Mac "ImageWell is a small, but powerful, image editing application that lets you quickly resize, crop, watermark, edit your images and then upload them to the web, save to your computer or email them to a friend. ImageWell also lets you annotate your images with text, shapes, arrows and lines, quickly and easily. And it doesn't stop there - add a drop shadow, a shaped border, flip or rotate your image, take screen grabs, plus so much more. " |
Primo
PDF Download this free software to make PDF files, or use the online version. |
| Free
Stuff for Canadian Teachers Links to lots of free software sorted by curriculum artea |
Rasterbater Digital Software "This is piece of free software can take an ordinary digital photo and BLOW it up to any size you require. 140 A4 pages by 140 A4 is quite achievable." |
Eclipse Crossword Maker Download this free crossword maker |
| Lego Designer Download this software from Lego and design your own creations |
Mosaic Photo Maker Download this free software and make your own mosaic photos |
Ray's Educational Software Free report writing software, games, spelling, tables, time and number games, chemistry and more |
| Free Add-ons for Internet Explorer Sorted by Security, Entertainment, Browsers and Time Savers, there is something for everyone |
Fun Extras for your PC From Microsoft - icons, emoticons, clip art, fonts, ringtones |
Digital Scrapbooking Software Easy to use. Runs on PC only |
| Tux
Paint A free painting programme that works on PC and Mac |
SmartDraw Create perfect diagrams and flowcharts with this excellent software |
Flickr Toys Use this site to make frames, covers, captions, posters and more with your photos |
| Portable
Freeware Collection Hundreds of freeware programs that "can be extracted to any directory and run independently without prior installation"; Categories include: education, audio, graphics, games, CD/DVD,Internet, Productivity, Publishing, Video and more..(For PC) |
FreeSmug Free Open Source Software for OSX (Mac) |
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Best Ever Freeware Utilities Some really useful utilities here |
| Handy Programs to put on your USB Stick Lots of useful utilities |
Spellmaster Download these small files and make your own games to help students learn a language (could also be used for English word pairs/opposites etc) |
Sketchup From Google. SketchUp is a simple but powerful tool for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas. |
| Open Source Freeware "400+ freeware and applications. Extremely useful open source applications and utilities available free under various licenses." |
Gliffy Draw and share diagrams and flow charts on the web |
Chronological Age Calculator Use it online or download it to PC, Palm or Pocket PC |
| Adobe From this site you can access free help with Adobe, download patches and updates, and access free lesson plans |
Apple
Support Centre Access the knowledge base or download system updates |
Art
Rage "ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. ArtRage is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. It can be used with a mouse, but works better if you have a graphics tablet, or even better on a Tablet PC where ArtRage takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel." |
| Audacity Free audio editor and recorder |
Cool
Ruler Use this to check the size of graphics when developing web pages (PC only) |
Dia
- A drawing Program Much like Visio this software can be used to draw diagrams, flowcharts and networks |
| Dog
Waffle Dan Ritchie has his free version of Sog Waffle available at this site, along with screen shots of the program. Its a paint program which runs on the Windows platform |
Drawing
for Children A free, fun drawing programe for Windows XP |
GameMaker Download the free software and begin designing your own games. (Fully registered version also available) |
| Harmony Hollow Free software for a variety of purposes. Has a teacher section with simple time savers |
Irfan
View Download this free graphics viewer. It supports animated gifs, it can do batch conversions, allows you to manipulate graphics and much more. |
Kali A very simple piece of software that lets you draw symmetrical shapes and patterns. Easy enough for pre-schoolers but addicitve for all ages |
| Kids
Freeware Lots of free software here. Includes games, desktop themes, educational games, and teaching tools for parents. Check out the speaking clock! |
No-nonsense
Software Download screen grabber, desk cleaner, RBG to Hex converters etc |
Owl
and Mouse Free software. Maps, puzzles, make a castle, learn letters and letter sounds, and more... |
| Open
Office "OpenOffice.org is both a multi-platform and multi-lingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute." |
PDF
Convertor Primo PDF is a free download that allows you to convert documents to PDF format |
Peanuts This site has several maths applications which you download for use.(Middle to Senior high school).There is also an instruction manual available |
| Photofiltre An amazing free graphics programme that lets you manipulate and edit images. Complete with tutorial and examples. |
PhotoEditing
Software A review of Photofiltre and downloads for several editing packages. |
GeoGebra GeoGebra is a free dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. |
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OllTwit's Software Games, Education Software, Greeting Cards and more |
Picasa2 Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organised by date with folder names you will recognize. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures – you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello™, and even post pictures on your own blog. |
RedPlayer A simple and small application for DVD-files, video-files, flash-files, image-files, audio-files and slideshows.Playback support for: - DVD-files [ifo]. Movie-files [mpg, mpeg, mpe, mpa, m1v, mpv2], Video-files {avi}, Windows Media files, VideoCD files {dat}, Playlist files {m3u, rap, rsl, m3l}, Flash files {swf}, Image files {jpg, jpeg, bmp}, Audio files {mp3, ogg, wav, wma}, Slideshow for jpg, jpeg and bmp-files. Win98/ME/NT/2K/XP |
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Snippy |
Spam
Motel A free software programme that lets you take control of spam |
SVWhite
Games Download these game applets or just play online. Mr Potato Head, Boy Doll, Girl Doll and Jigsaw |
| Terragen Realistic scenery rendering software for PC and Mac |
Writely
- the Web Word Processor Share documents instantly & collaborate real-time. Pick exactly who can access your documents.Edit your documents from anywhere. Nothing to download -- your browser is all you need. Store your documents securely online. Offsite storage plus data backup every 10 seconds. Easy to use. Clean, uncluttered screens with a familiar, desktop feel. |
3D
Anim8tor Download a free 3D animator. REad all about it at this site |
| Flaming
Pear Make incredible text and photo effects. Two week free trial before you buy. |
Skype It’ll let you make free calls to your friends all over the world. And it's free! |
Squeakland At this site you can download Squeak, a free media authoring software with which you can program and share with others. A media playground for Yr 3 and upwards. |
| Best Windows Freeware from Tech Support Alert. Includes links to many other sites. |
Bubble Dialogue Free software designed to encourage discussion and collaboration |
Nihongo
Benkyo Download this free Japanese dictionary for Windows |
| Hammerhead Rhythm Station A simple drum software for JPs to make patterns. Use it to create Techno loops, Jungle patterns or House beats, Hip Hop, Triphop, Rap. |
Kristal Audio Engine a powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer - ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio. It is designed as a modular system. The main application provides a mixing console, while the audio sequencer, live audio input and so on are loaded as separate Plug-Ins. |
Easy Thumbnails Easy Thumbnails is a popular free utility for creating accurate thumbnail images and scaled-down/up copies from a wide range of popular picture formats. An elegant interface makes it a snap to find your images and select them for processing individually, in groups, or in whole folders, using a simple file selector and built-in image viewer. You can use slider controls to rotate images and adjust their contrast, brightness, sharpness and quality, and check out the results with the built-in viewer. |
| Seashore Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. (A Mac product)It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format. |
Free Software for the Mac |
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