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California Embraces Open Source Digital Textbooks

California schools have cracked the spine on open source, free digital textbooks in an attempt to save money and to make educational resources easier to access and update....

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Raleigh (NC): the World’s First Open Source City

What one big opportunity, outside of technology, has the best chance of being solved the open source way (i.e., through collaboration, transparency, sharing, meritocracy, rapid prototyping, community,...

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Round-Up Of 20 Most Useful Open Source Software

Open source is a term which is a common knowledge of all, it’s cherished by few and most use it without knowing that they are using the open source. It has flourished so brightly that it has now the...

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Presentation of the Week: Open Source 101

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Bring Old PC To Life With Ubuntu

Give an old computer a new life, using Ubuntu. It’s simple if you follow the instructions in this guide. Outlining everything you need to know to get Ubuntu up and running on older computers, this...

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32 Places to Find Images for Use Online

The images you select and where you choose to find them will vary depending upon their application. There are enough different types of image sites out there to find exactly what you need....

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Free Technology Tools for Teachers

A great resource of tools for teachers, updated daily. http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/108629

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Iceland swaps Windows for Linux in open-source push

Iceland’s push to move its public sector to open-source software has made some headway, with most of the shift seeing Windows swapped for Linux....

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Make a Raspberry Pi Solar-Powered FTP Server

There are lots of great Raspberry Pi projects you can make. Add to the growing list using the small computer as an FTP server—a solar-powered one, no less....

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Tools and Resources to Find Licensed Images for your Classroom Use

It is highly important that you teach your students the ethical use of images they find online. Here are some of the websites you can use to look for free and licensed images....

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Open source in higher education: how far have we come?

Universities are ahead of the curve in adopting open source. We should now lead the public sector in exploring its full potential....

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Find Free (and Legal) Images for Your Classroom

The Internet has made a myriad of material readily available to a vast audience. Along with these seemingly infinite resources  has come a lot of confusion about how images and other content published...

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Why Organizations Choose an Open Source Learning Management System

Why should an organization choose an open source Learning Management System as opposed to a homegrown or proprietary LMS? Kineo recently distributed a survey to organizations which reveals the reasons...

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25 Open Source Alternatives For Costly Applications

A great list of open source applications that are great alternatives for expensive office applications. http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=121432  

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10 Free, Open-Source Replacements for Commercial Tools

This is an overview providing 10 Linux open-source replacements for various commercial power tools, most of them available only on Windows....

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