I've delibrately not been writing recently, because I didn't want my last entry about briefings to archive away from visitors immediate view - so you can read that here.
I was in a school last week where I saw Google Earth being explored on the whiteboard by two pupils, independently and with ease, with the rest of the class engrossed in their own tasks on Egyptians - and two things struck me. Firstly, a few years ago, when IWBs were still a fascination to some, how some teachers wouldn't hand over the IWB to the pupils, because it distracted the class... thank goodness we have moved on! And secondly, the quantity of great software out there for free.
I was also recently involved in an ICT audit of a school, and we created a software audit summary broken into these parts - Curriculum Software (site licenced), Curriculum Software (user licenced), Office/Admin software, and Free Software/Utilities.
Therefore, this post might be an opportunity to remind some readers of the good 'free' stuff, and it would be great if you commented and added to the list.
Google Earth
Irfanview
Photostory3
Audacity
iPlayer ;-)
Sebran
Crocodile Clips 3 (now Yenka)
Not curriculum based, but I wouldn't be without a pdf creator/printer driver like pdf995 or similar - and then there are all the usual web plug ins and media players, which are necessary, but I won't list.
Please add...
