[clug] Linux on new school computers [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[jm]

Robert Edwards wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks, I got moodle (and Samba), but I am looking for an app that
> runs on a laptop for teaching some secondary-level concepts like math
> or science etc. that is FOSS and preferably Australian.
> 
> I guess there aren't any around (yet), but there could be...
> Maybe an Aussie geo-political game of some sort? Some sort of
> climate-modelling simulation for high-school students? Sex-ed?
> 
> Oh well, if it all actually comes about, I guess I'll just show that
> Linux can display a web-page as good as the rest and that OpenOffice
> can do the job.
> 

While I'm sure you don't need any help on the presentation. I thought 
I'd draw up a list of every discipline that I could think of and start 
adding applications to have something ready to demo in every possible 
field, plus the general stuff like open office,

English

Foreign Languages
  eg parley http://edu.kde.org/parley/

Mathematics
   http://sagemath.org/

Astronomy
   http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ (suggested by Dave)

Physics
   http://phet.colorado.edu/new/index.php

Chemistry

Biology

History

Geography

Music
  eg https://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page


General/back office
  Open Office http://openoffice.org/
  Moodle http://moodle.com/ and http://moodle.org/

Can anyone think of more to add?

Jeff.