Welcome to K12EdCom - An Educational Commons
The mission of K12EdCom.org is to promote and publish OpenCourseWare for K12 schools. OpenCourseWare is curriculum and learning material published under the Creative Commons License. Everything published on this web site is free to use and redistribute. Read the full license details here.
We chose K12EdCom as our name because we want to provide educational materials for children aged 5-18 and we believe in the idea of the information commons. We want to create a commons of educational materials and resources developed collaboratively by a world-wide teaching and learning community.
K12EdCom.org will host curriculum materials and will link to other sites with freely available content. Educators who are ready to publish curriculum should form a publishing team via the K12EdCom Forums and publish their work here or create links to their projects.
K12EdCom is a community project. We believe that education is an important and worthy endeavor. Creating resources for people who want to learn is a good way to spend one's time. That's why we do what we do. We hope you will enjoy the resources here and that you will find a way to contribute.
-- Paul Nelson
Power Publishing - Three for free
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Three open source graphics and desktop publishing tools are free to use and redistribute. Learn to use them in this self-guided set of tutorials created with Moodle. (Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus)
All three of these programs are free to use and redistribute. You may download them and install them on as many computers as you like and you are encouraged to make copies and give them to friends, family and students.
TeachersDomain.org Open Education Resources
This is a good collection of multimedia published under an open license that lets you republish and remix. These videos would be great for student presentations. The site is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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Moodle Course - Digital Photography
A 12 week digital photography course using the GIMP and Flickr.com. Images, examples, lessons, scoring rubrics, Gimp links and tutorials, information on image hosting sites... you'll find everything you need to teach the course. View course as guest...
This course is published under the Creative Commons license so you are free to use it, improve it and redistribute it.
Download - 298KB moodle_digital_photo.zip
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INGOTS - OpenOffice Getting Started Guide
INGOTS (international grades in office technology) is a certificate program designed to promote assessment of the technical skills needed to operate popular office software. The program offers ingots (bronze, silver, gold, platinum) for achievement in an increasingly rigorous program for students learning office suite skills. The Ingots resource page lists several products that are freely available for download and licensed under the Creative Commons license.
Getting Started Guide free download (pdf)
Writer Guide free download (pdf)
Draw Guide free download (pdf)
Migration Guide free download (pdf)
The INGOTS program offers training for assessors and schools participate as INGOTS Academies. For more information see the INGOTS FAQ.
Priprave na matematični teden
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Začelo se je resno delo. Po temeljiti predstavitvi na konferrenci, 16. 11. (v sredo popoldne) so že prvi odzivi:
* anleščina (matematika v angleščini)
* ŠV (Lovro Beranič)
* sodelovanje z zgodovinskim arhivom (Meli) matematične naloge skozi 135 let!?
* Društvo Lugos (Aleš Košir) InstallFest ali nekaj takega.
Pravzaprav zelo dober odziv in zelo dober začetek. Upamo lahko samo, da se bo tako nadaljevalo.
Že prej sem "odprl" Mambo domačo stran za ta projekt - to je Stran matematičnega aktiva Gimnazije Ptuj in sedaj jo bomo lahko začeli zapolnjevati z vsebino.
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 Tutorials - More...
I found these OpenOffice training videos from NewsForge. They are published under the Creative Commons License so you can redistribute them and host them on your school web sites. See this post for another good set of OO.org tutorials.
Creating and formatting text documents
Adding graphics to a text document
Saving in various file formats
Calculating values in a spreadsheet
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Web Based Word Processor
Rumor has it that today Sun and Google will announce a web-based version of OpenOffice.This would be a wonderful evolutionary step for personal computer users. I don't know and don't care what OS my telephone uses. I want to pick up the handset, push some buttons and have it work. Basic computer software should be just as easy. I'm hoping that Sun & Google will announce a free, open source product today. In looking at what is already out there for simple word processing I found Writely.com. They have a great solution for word processing. Users can save files and even share them.
On-Line Physics Textbooks - The Light & Matter Series
Dr. Ben Crowell teaches physics and astronomy at Fullerton College in Southern California. He has published a series of physics textbooks under the Creative Commons License.
SlimServer Streaming Media/Textbook Server
The Squeezbox2 wireless, streaming audio server is pretty cool. I don't even have
one but since the software it runs is based on GNU/Linux, I don't need one. 
I can install the SlimServer streaming server right on my home (or school) PC running Red Hat Fedora Linux. This is just how open source software licensing is supposed to work. Posted on the SlimServer download page is this notice, “Supported by an international team of developers, SlimServer is released under the Open Source GPL license.” This means that I can freely download it, adapt it to suite my needs and redistribute it to others. It also happens that the Squeezebox would be a good product for schools to purchase. Read on...