STELLARIUM

STELLARIUM: http://stellarium.org Stellarium is a free Open Source planetarium. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, and can be used with planetarium projectors.

CELESTIA

CELESTIA: www.shatters.net/celestia The free space simulation that lets users explore the universein three dimensions. Celestia comes with a large catalog ofstars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, andspacecraft, as well as a catalog of additional downloads. Students and teachers can plot a course and navigate a 3D solar system.

Sakai

Sakai: http://sakaiproject.org/ Leading educational institutions throughout the world choose Sakai to enable powerful teaching and learning and research collaboration. Depending on where you are in the world, Sakai might be called a Course Management System (CMS), a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS). While Sakai is typically used for teaching and learning (similar to products like Blackboard and Moodle) we call it a Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) because it embraces uses beyond the classroom.

Moodle

MOODLE: www.moodle.org A free, Open Source course management system—It can be downloaded and used on any computer (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student university.

Tux Math

TUX MATH: http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxmath/ TuxMath is an arcade game that helps kids practice their math facts. The main goal is to make it effective and fun!

Gimp

GIMP: www.gimpshop.com GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. GIMP works on many operating systems, in many languages.

Tux Paint

TUX PAINT: http://www.tuxpaint.org/ OR http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxpaint/ A drawing program for young children with sound effects, a cartoon character, and fun 'rubber stamp'/'stickerbook' pictures.