Open Source Software for Educators
Nicole C. Engard VP of Education ByWater Solutions [email protected]
Thursday, January 30, 14 Outline
•What is Open Source? •Products for educators •Q&A Throughout
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Thursday, January 30, 14 What isn’t Open Source? Common Open Source FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) •“Isn’t that insecure?”
•“I don’t want to share my data!”
•“How can it be any good if it’s free?”
•“We don’t have the staff to handle open source.”
•“We’ve never had success with homegrown systems.”
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Thursday, January 30, 14 What is Open Source?
Open source software is software that users have the ability to run, distribute, study and modify for any purpose.
Open source is a collaborative software- development method that harnesses the power of peer review and transparency of process to
develop code that is freely accessible.1
Open source draws on an ecosystem of thousands of developers and customers all over
the world to drive innovation.2 1,2 http://connect.educause.edu/display/47941 4
Thursday, January 30, 14 What is Free Software?
•Often you will hear Free & Open Source Software (F/OSS) in conjunction.
•The Free Software Definition (http:// www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) is similar to, but not identical to the Open Source Definition (http://www.opensource.org/ docs/definition.php)
•Free does not mean free of cost - it means Free as in Freedom
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Four Freedoms of Free Software
• You need all four of these freedoms to have free software • Freedom of use • Freedom to copy • Freedom to modify • Freedom to contribute
http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4263
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Sharing of ideas
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." Attributed to Bernard Shaw
http://ftacademy.org/materials/fsm/1#1
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Thursday, January 30, 14 The Cathedral The Bazaar (proprietary software) (open source software)
•Development •Code developed occurs behind walls over the Internet •Source code is with several others usually not provided in public view - kept locked up •Source code open •Corporate hierarchy to all users •“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ 8
Thursday, January 30, 14 Open Source Governance
What kind of quality control is there?
•Most open source projects have a release manager or a manager of some sort who reviews the code and approves it before adding it to the final release
What is the role of the community?
•The community looks out for the best interests of the software. They work as the governing body behind all decisions related to the software. The community decides what features to develop next and who the managers
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Open Source Community •Open source is about more than free software •Community is crucial to the growth of open source •Without shared knowledge and collaboration the project will not grow •“Critiquing the community is a right reserved for those who have proved themselves by making Graphic From: http://eaves.ca/ valuable contributions”1 2009/07/28/remixing-angie-byron-to- create-the-next-million-mozillians/ •People who use open source can collaborate and contribute in many ways with the community •Write code •Write documentation •Debug 1. Tapscott, Don, and Anthony D. Williams. “Embracing open source culture and strategy.” In Wikinomics: How mass collaboration changes everything, 82-83. •Educate others Expanded Edition. New York, NY: Penguin USA, 2008. www.wikinomics.com/book/. 10
Thursday, January 30, 14 “Crowdsourcing has it genesis in the open source movement in software. The development of the Linux operating system proved that a community of like- minded peers was capable of creating a better product than a corporate behemoth like Microsoft. Open source revealed a fundamental truth about humans that had gone largely unnoticed until the connectively of the Internet brought it into high relief: labor can often be organized more efficiently in the context of a community than it can in the context of the corporation. The best person to do a job is the one who most wants to do that Howe, J. (2008). job; and the best people to evaluate their performance Crowdsourcing: Why the power of the are their friends and peers who, by the way, will crowd is driving the future of business. enthusiastically pitch in to improve the final product, New York: Crown Business. p.8 simply for the sheer pleasure of helping one another and creating something beautiful from which they all will benefit.” 11
Thursday, January 30, 14 If you don't know why you do what you do then how will you ever get people to be loyal and want to be a part of what you do?
The goal is not just to sell to people what you have, it's to sell people on what you believe - the goal is not to hire people who want a job it's to hire people who believe what you believe. If you hire people just because they can do a job they will work for your money - if you hire people who believe what you believe they work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Open Source is Easy!
“The hard drive on one of our reference desk PCs died today. I threw in a new one, but I didn't feel like spending the day sitting through Windows updates, so I loaded Ubuntu 11.04 on it instead. The install, as I'm sure you know, only took about 15 minutes. Now, before I add my next point, keep in mind that I manage a staff whose average age is about 63. No joke. Most of them have been working at my facility longer than I've been alive. Still, once I had Ubuntu up and running, they were literally fighting over who got to use the new operating system. They loved it that much.
Now I agree, Linux kicks butt. I use it about 80% of the time. Typing to you on Mint right now! However, I never expected novice users to take to it so quickly. Please, next time you do an open source webinar, impress on your attendees that libraries aren't sacrificing a thing by switching over to open source software. If anything, open source operating systems and applications can be far more user friendly for the novice user than Windows will ever be...”
-- Mark at the The Rahway Public Library
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Who’s Using Open Source?
•Government Agencies •All Kinds of Businesses •Schools (K-colleges)
•Librarians 14
Thursday, January 30, 14 2007 Survey Results
www.unisys.com/unisys/news/detail.jsp?id=5100086&pid=&sid=203 15
Thursday, January 30, 14 • In 2010 a survey of 300 large organizations in both the private and public sector found: – 50% are fully committed to open source in their business – 28% say they are experimenting with open source and keeping an open mind to using it – 38% expecting to migrate mission-critical software to open source in next 12 months »The cost was no longer viewed as the key benefit, instead: »76% cited quality as a key benefit of open source »70% cited improved reliability »69% said better security/bug fixing
http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5045 16
Thursday, January 30, 14 Open Source on the Web
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Why so popular?
• Reliability through Peer Review • Freedom to Innovate • No Vendor Lock-in • User-centric Development • Collaborative Environment • Zero License Fees
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Why should Educators care?
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Thursday, January 30, 14 • Students should, at least, be given the opportunity to see how their new tools work. They should be given the opportunity to examine the inner workings of software. They should be given the opportunity to extend the functions of their tools, where they see or imagine possibilities. They should not be held back by locking the toolbox of the Information Age and told they must not peer inside, must not try to discover how it works, must not share their tools with others, must not use their tools without paying proper tribute to the software overlords, under penalty and punishment of law.
Vessels, Terry. “Why Open Source in Schools,” December 24, 2007. http://edge-op.org/grouch/schools.html. 20
Thursday, January 30, 14 2007 Survey Results
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http://www.unisys.com/unisys/news/detail.jsp?id=5100086&pid=&sid=203
Thursday, January 30, 14 Common questions educators have:
• Is there support? Do I have to know how to program?
• Do I have to skimp on features?
• Isn’t Open Source risky?
• Can I do it myself?
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Is there support? •Most major products have a support model •Ubuntu: www.ubuntu.com/management •Moodle: moodle.com/partners/ •And more! Do I have to know how to program? •Only if you want to alter the software, but there are: •Local Students •Freelance Developers 23
Thursday, January 30, 14 Do I have to skimp on features?
• Open Source developers follow the rule of “Release early and release often”
• Users vote with their dollars and time
• Freedom to develop on your own http://www.flickr.com/photos/programwitch/ • Developers love their products 2505184887/
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Isn’t Open Source Risky?
• Casey Coleman, chief information • US Department of Defense memo officer for the GSA (U.S. General encourages the use of open source Services Administration), said in a with many reasons “including cost speech ... that the GSA heavily relies advantages, reduced risk of vendor on open source to drive down costs, lock-in, better security, and increased increase flexibility of IT dollars, and flexibility. It says that the positive reduce risk. ‘You get much more aspects of open source software transparency and interoperability, and should be given consideration during that reduces your risk,’ she said. procurement research. • http://news.cnet.com/ • http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/ 8301-13505_3-9921115-16.html 2009/10/dod-military-needs-to-think-harder- about-using-open-source.ars
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Isn’t Open Source Risky? For a total 284 days in 2006 (or more than nine months out of the year), exploit code for known, unpatched critical flaws in pre-IE7 versions of the browser was publicly available on the Internet. Likewise, there were at least 98 days last year in which no software fixes from Microsoft were available to fix IE flaws that criminals were actively using to steal personal and financial data from users.
In a total of ten cases last year, instructions detailing how to leverage "critical" vulnerabilities in IE were published online before Microsoft had a patch to fix them.
In contrast, Internet Explorer's closest competitor in terms of market share -- Mozilla's Firefox browser -- experienced a single period lasting just nine days last year in which exploit code for a serious security hole was posted online before Mozilla shipped a patch to remedy the problem.
Quote: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/ internet_explorer_unsafe_for_2.html Image: http://www.seo-quotient.com/firefox-v-internet-explorer-v-safari-web- browsers/ 26
Thursday, January 30, 14 Risk of Proprietary Software •“Closed-source efforts often suffer from flaws and problems which the original development team never anticipated. Lack of inspection of the code by other programmers can mean that inappropriate design constraints and other errors might not be discovered until the code is already in use.”
Pavlicek, Russell. Embracing insanity : open source software development. Indianapolis IN: SAMS, 2000. p. 33. 27
Thursday, January 30, 14 Risk of Proprietary Software
•“In its 2011 Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report, which was released on Thursday, Coverity actually found that open source code has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software code does.”
Noyes, Katherine. “Actually, Open Source Code Is Better: Report.” PCWorld Business Center, February 23, 2012. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/250543/ actually_open_source_code_is_better_report.html.
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Software is Risky!
All software has risks, you need to evaluate open source the same way you do proprietary systems.
Several Levels of Risk to consider: • Software security issues • Open source is just as secure if not more secure than proprietary systems because of its transparency • Evaluate open source software no differently than you do other software! • Company mergers and acquisitions • Because you own the code to your system you are not tied to one support source and will never be left without support
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Can I do it Myself?
• Absolutely, with the right in-house skills
• Linux server management
• Web programming
• Perl / PHP / MySQL
• Systems knowledge
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Give me some examples!!
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Operating System
• Is and always will be free of charge • Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need: • word processing • email applications • web server software
• programming tools Lock down Ubuntu for Public • games Stations: http://ashkev.weblogs.us/ • Designed with security in mind archives/478 • Great for public or classroom computers!! Download Ubuntu: http://ubuntu.com 32
Thursday, January 30, 14 Operating System for Kids
• Is and always will be free of charge • Qimo has applications specific to kids • Based on the open source Ubuntu Linux desktop • Comes pre-installed with educational games for children aged 3 and up • Interface has been designed to be intuitive
and easy to use http://www.qimo4kids.com • Great for children stations!!
• Other Linux Distros for Kids: http://opensource.com/ education/14/1/teaching-kids-linux 33
Thursday, January 30, 14 Virtual Machine
• Try operating systems without reformatting your machine • Run as many virtual machines as you’d like • Runs operating system concurrently without using up too many resources • Great way to demo software without making the switch right away
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Email / Web Browser
Thursday, January 30, 14 Browser
• Customizable with Plugins • Offers more security that IE • Phishing protection • Built in pop up blocker • Spyware protection • Private Browsing • Frequent updates Download: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ • Built in spell checking Security Facts: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/security/ Browser Stats: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Must Have Firefox Plugins
•Adblock Plus •Block all ads from displaying •https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 •Greasemonkey •Allows for running of small scripts to change webpages •https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 •Find 100s of Greasemonkey scripts: http://userscripts.org •NoScript •Block all scripts from running without your permission • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 •Flashblock •Block all flash movies from playing without your permission •https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 37
Thursday, January 30, 14 Browser
•Google Chrome is a new open source browsing option •Available for many operating systems •More security than IE: •Malware protection •Spyware protection •Anti-Phishing •Private browsing •Extend functionality with plugins http://chrome.google.com https://chrome.google.com/extensions/ Security: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143518/ Chrome_sets_browser_security_standard_says_expert
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Email Client
• Customizable with Plugins • Message Tagging • Saved Searches • High security • Phishing protection • Junk mail folder • Remote image blocking • Easy integration with Google Apps and popular web mail services http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ 39
Thursday, January 30, 14 Must Have Thunderbird Plugins
•Lightening •Adds a Sunbird (another Mozilla product) type calendar to Thunderbird •http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ calendar/lightning/ •Provider for Google Calendar •Connects Lightning with Google Calendar •https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/ thunderbird/addon/4631 Tutorial: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-integrate-google- calendar-into-thunderbird/ 40
Thursday, January 30, 14 Desktop Apps
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Student Management System
• Student demographics • Scheduling • Contact info • Gradebook • Report cards • Transcripts • Parent portal • Integration with Moodle • Paid support available http://www.opensis.com
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Complete Office Suite
• Works on most operating systems • Similar menus to other office suites • Save files in a variety of formats for interoperability with other office suites • Mature/established applications • Includes full office suite: • word processor • spreadsheet • presentation manager • drawing program • database application http://www.libreoffice.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Desktop Publishing
• Works on most operating systems • Professional page layout • Comes with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout • Supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation • Non-Latin script handling in PDFs • Several translations http://www.scribus.net 44
Thursday, January 30, 14 Photo Editing
• Works on most operating systems • Supports photo retouching and image creation • Includes a customizable interface and plugins for extended functionality • Supports most photo formats • Available in several languages http://gimp.org http://www.gimpshop.com
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Images and Illustrations
• Runs on most operating systems • Open Source vector graphics editor • Similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X • Documented in several languages
http://www.inkscape.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Web Authoring
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Web Development
• Works on most operating systems • WYSIWYG editor • HTML editing interface • Integrated file management with FTP • Tabbed editor • CSS Editor & Color Picker • Spellchecker • Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates •Comparable to Adobe Dreamweaver & MS Frontpage http://kompozer.net
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Advanced Web Development
• Works on most operating systems • Integrated language support for • HTML • JavaScript/Ajax • CSS • Support for advanced languages: • PHP • Jaxer http://www.aptana.com • Ruby on Rails • Python
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Thursday, January 30, 14 FTP Client
• Available for client and server • Client works on most operating systems • Server is Windows only • Drag and drop interface • Available in several languages • Can filter by filename • Allows for remote file editing
http://filezilla-project.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Research & Learning
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Course Management
•Web-based classrooms •Permissions for students, teachers and administrators •Built-in chat rooms and message boards •Suitable for 100% online classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning •Multiple languages, themes, plugins and activity modules •Includes modules for assignment and quizzes http://moodle.org 52
Thursday, January 30, 14 Library Plugin
•Open Source browser plugin for Firefox and Chrome •Provides access to library resources from the browser •Uses an open source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built •Currently, 850+ libraries have created public LibX editions •Integrates into popular websites (Google Scholar, Amazon, Barnes & Noble) http://libx.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Research Assistant
• Open source Firefox extension & Desktop client • Helps you collect, manage, and cite research resources • Playlist-like organization • Allows for note-taking • Includes saved searches and tags • Integration with MS Office & Open Office • Data stored in your web browser • Can store of files and bibliography online as well • Allows for shared collections http://zotero.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Teaching Kids
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Thursday, January 30, 14 KDE Education Project
Teach Kids using open source educational tools for Linux and Unix: • KIG for geometry • KAlgebra for Algebra • KMPlot for mathematical function plotting • LucidLife for the Game of Life Simulation • Kalzium for the periodic table • And more - http://edu.kde.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Teaching Kids to Code
• Alice (http://www.alice.org) meant for kids ages 8 and up. • Drag and drop objects in to your scene/story • Once you have your scene set up you can edit the code by clicking on the object • Code editing is friendly to kids by giving them pull down menus of actions. • Greenfoot (http://www.greenfoot.org) is meant for slightly older kids (12+), but works similarly to Alice. • The code editor in this shows you the Java with a bit of color coding.
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Teaching Kids Hardware •Raspberry Pi (www.raspberrypi.org) is a computer with a flash hard drive that will take any Linux distribution. It has 2 USB ports (keyboard and mouse), an ethernet port, and a port to connect to your TV. •This is a great way to let the kids see the inside of the computer and work with it and programming on it. •Arduino (http://arduino.cc) is an open-source tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. •Software runs on Windows, Macintosh OSX, and Linux operating systems 58
Thursday, January 30, 14 Media
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Media Player
• VLC • Works on most operating systems • Plays DVDs and CDs • Supports a large number of formats • AVI • MP3 • WMA • MOV • WAV • MP4 • MPEG http://www.videolan.org/ • etc... 60
Thursday, January 30, 14 Screenshots
• ZScreen offers advanced screenshot options • Capture entire screen or selection • Upload/Save Destinations • FTP • Clipboard • Custom Uploader • Text Features http://www.brandonz.net/projects/zscreen/ • Language Translator • Upload Clipboard Text to FTP
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Music Player
•From Mozilla (like Firefox) •Multiple formats on all systems: •MP3 •FLAC •WMA •Windows & Mac formats •Plugins available •Integrates with Last.fm http://getsongbird.com/
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Podcatcher
•Juice's primary purpose is to manage podcasts •Works on most operating systems •Supports more than 15 languages •Supports multiple media players •Has a built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast feeds •Windows version is accessible for blind and visually impaired users http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Audio Editor
• Works on most operating systems • Popular among podcasters • Record live audio • Import/Export audio files • Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files • Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together • Change the speed or pitch of a recording • Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs http://audacity.sourceforge.net
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Screencasting
•Works on Windows only •Records actions on your screen •Multi-Language support •Records audio from system speakers •Features include the ability to: •Add System Time Stamp To Video •Add Caption To Video •Add Watermark To Video http://camstudio.org 65
Thursday, January 30, 14 Screencasting • Works on Windows only • Record software demonstrations and tutorials • Include • Voice • Webcam • Text • Publish in Flash, view on our website or yours • Receive ratings, comments and share with others http://www.webinaria.com
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Screencasting
•Works on Linux only •Records actions on your screen •Records audio from system speakers •Produces files using only open formats •Supports multiple languages
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Video Editing
•Avidemux •Works on most operating systems •Designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks •Supports many file types •AVI •DVD compatible MPEG files •MP4 •ASF •Supports automation of projects http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ 68
Thursday, January 30, 14 DVD Burning
• Windows Only • Burn near any video file to DVD so that it will play in your DVD Player • Support for over 45 file formats • Easily add a menu • Add your own subtitles • Easy to use interface • Burn your project to disc after encoding • Completely free without any adware, spyware or limitations
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Thursday, January 30, 14 On the Web
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Online Surveys
• Install on your own servers • WYSIWYG HTML Editor • User-Management • Free with no limits on number of surveys or responses • Multi-Lingual Surveys in more than 50 languages • Integration of pictures and movies into a survey • Creation of a printable survey version • Anonymous and Not-Anonymous survey • Open and closed group of participant surveys • Optional public registration for surveys http://limesurvey.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Content Management System
• Easy to install and customize • Allows for detailed user permissions • Plugins for events calendar, widgets, photo galleries and more • Thousands of pre-made themes • Includes content management functionality • Built-in search engine • Support multiple authors and blogs • Can be used as a course management system http://wordpress.org 72
Thursday, January 30, 14 Social Network
• BuddyPress will extend WordPress and bring social networking features to a new or existing installation • ExtendedProfiles • Private Messaging • Activity Streams • Friends • Groups • Create your own student network behind the safety of your firewall http://buddypress.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Content Management System
• More advanced interface and installation process • Expandable with Modules • The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide functionality that extend Drupal core • Extensive online help • Both the content and the presentation can be individualized based on user-defined preferences. • Role based permission system • Modules for course management available http://drupal.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Web Analytics
• Keep statistics for your websites • An open source alternative to Google Analytics • PHP/MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver • You own your data: because Piwik is installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database • Customizable interface
http://piwik.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Help Desk Ticketing
• Support ticket system • Seamlessly integrates inquiries created via email and web- based forms into a simple easy to use multi-user web interface • Easily manage, organize and archive all your support requests and responses in one place • Students will be able to view ticket's status and history online • Widely-used http://osticket.com
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Thursday, January 30, 14 PC Management
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Public PC Management
• Integrated multi-platform kiosk management system. • Includes: • Remote logoff, shutdown, and messaging • Customizable login dialog text • Remote viewing of network status from an external location using a web browser • Grouping of workstations according to program access
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Public PC Management
• Use to manage public access systems, libraries, school computer laboratories and more! • A web-based administration system • Create, delete, manage users • Leave users messages • Remotely log out or ban users • Developed by and used at the Crawford County Library System in PA
http://libki.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Digital Content
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Institutional Repository
• Store research papers and presentations for your organization • Captures your data in any format: • text • video • audio • data • Customizable to your needs • Searchable • Provides access control • Widely used in the academic world http://www.dspace.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Digital Asset Management
• Designed to give your content creators easy and fast access to print and web ready assets. • Intuitive Web-Based Interface • Manage your photos, text and videos • Simple and Advanced Search • User Permissions • Premade Themes
http://resourcespace.org
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Ebook Library Management
•Format conversion (all major Ebook formats can be converted from) •Syncing to/from Ebook reader devices •Fetching RSS feeds from the web and converting it into Ebook (ePub) form •Reading many different Ebook formats from your desktop •Gives you access to your book collection over the Internet using just a browser/email client
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Community Digital Library
• Library can contain: • Images • Audio recordings • Video recordings • Documents • URLs of web resources • Community built / collaborative effort between educators and students • Great for genealogy, local history and class projects
http://kete.net.nz
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Online Exhibitions
• Professional-looking exhibit sites that showcase collections • Dublin Core metadata structure • Multiple themes • Plug-ins for geolocation and bi-lingual sites • Web 2.0 technologies, including: • Tagging • Blogging • RSS feeds http://omeka.org http://nycdigital.org 85
Thursday, January 30, 14 Now What??
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Play Time
•Start downloading and installing applications that will make things more efficient (and possibly affordable) http://www.flickr.com/photos/nengard/ 3253133986/ for you.
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Portable Play
•Can’t install software on your work computer? •Try PortableApps: •Install on your USB drive and use many of these open source applications without installing to the hard drive
http://portableapps.com
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Local Play
•Don’t have access to a web server? •Try BitNami: •Free, easy to setup wikis, blogs, forums and many other web applications that you can run locally or in the cloud. BitNami makes deploying server software a simple and enjoyable process. http://bitnami.org/ 89
Thursday, January 30, 14 Links
•OSS Watch, open source software advisory service: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
•Open Source as Alternative http://www.osalt.com
•Nicole’s Delicious bookmarks: http://delicious.com/nengard/opensource
•Open source options for Education http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/ossoptionseducation
•Why Open Ed Matters http://whyopenedmatters.org/videos/ 90
Thursday, January 30, 14 More Links • Open Source: Narrowing the Divides between Education, Business, and Community http://connect.educause.edu/display/47941 • Open Source Software Tools And Directories: Where To Find Them, How To Evaluate Them http://www.masternewmedia.org/open-source-software-tools-and- directories-where-to-find-them-how-to-evaluate-them/ • Open Source Security Bibliography http://www.zotero.org/nengard/items/collection/QKWPIXK9 •Nicole’s Zotero Library http://www.zotero.org/nengard/items/collection/1796131 • A Primer on Risk http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6611591.html
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Open Source Blogs
•The Open Road •ZDNet Open Source http://www.cnet.com/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/open- openroad/ source
•Open Ended from Ars Technica •New York Times - Open http://arstechnica.com/open- http://open.nytimes.com source •OpenSource.com •The H Open Source http://opensource.com http://www.h-online.com/open/ •Open Source at Datamation itmanagement.earthweb.com/ osrc/
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Print Reading List
• Practical Open Source Software in Libraries by Nicole C. Engard
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
• Embracing Insanity: Open Source Software Development by Russell Pavlicek
• The success of open source by Steve Weber
• The open source alternative: Understanding risks and leveraging opportunities by Heather J. Meeker
• Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution by Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, and Danese Cooper
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Thursday, January 30, 14 Thank You
Nicole C. Engard [email protected]
Slides: http://web2learning.net > click Publications & Presentations
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