PRACE sites

"Aussie English at the beach" :

beach.prace.vic.edu.au

"Snakes Alive!" - an easy-to-read, illustrated story for beginning readers:

pageturners.prace.vic.edu.au

Journals & writing

Dr Kathryn Moyle has written a good summary of the uptake of Open Source in Australia:

C/- education.edu.au

Language, literacy & technology - a brilliant journal worth reading regularly:

llt.msu.edu/

Journal of Digital Contents - interesting stuff:

www.formatex.org/
jdc/vol2-1.htm

Directory of Open Access Journals contains a complete catalogue of "free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals". Great for research:

www.doaj.org/

Xplana - a community of technologists and educators writing about technology and education. Including Bob Reynold's writing on Open Source Courseware:

www.xplana.com/articles/

Stephen Downes' ongoing links at Edu_RSS - this man knows so much - subscribe to his weekly news:

www.downes.ca/
edu_rss.htm

Eric Raymond brilliant writings - "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", "A Brief History of Hackerdom", and " The Magic Cauldron" which examines the economics of Open Source. Great writing which inspired change:

www.catb.org/~esr/
writings/
cathedral-bazaar/

A very good introduction to making choices about using Open Source in education, from Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, Oregon:

www.netc.org/
openoptions/

Australian Personal Computing Magazine voted Apple Mac "operating system of the year in 2003" with their latest - Mac OS/X - based on an Open Source version of Unix - :

apcmag.com.au/

Open Source programs

Open Source CMS - try before you install:

opensourcecms.com/

List of content management systems (CMS) - compare various programs (includes Open Source):

www.edutools.info/
course/

Mozilla + Zine - open source browser suite development community ("Mozilla" is the result of opening the source of the Netscape suite) - FireFox is the latest and greatest browser:

www.mozilla.org/

www.mozillazine.org/

Phpbb is a very popular bulletin board - with a range of themes you can choose from. If you're lucky, your web host will have a way you can install with a single click. Very customise-able:

phpbb.net

GNU.org  has a good list of options:

gnu.org/directory/
education/adult/

Audacity - a sound wave editor

audacity.sourceforge.net

Open Office - an alternative office suite, from Sun - has word processor, spreadsheet, web editor and a good drawing program as well:

OpenOffice.org

Apache web server:

Apache.org

Moodle - internationally popular web application - developed  in Perth, WA - for developing collaborative online learning community:

moodle.org

Organisations and communities

EdNA - Education Network Australia - a wonderful resource:

www.edna.edu.au/

The Source - Victorian Developer Community:

source.tafevc.com.au/

OpenSource.org - much more information:

www.opensource.org

Sourceforge - the hub of much software development:

sourceforge.net/

PHP Development Community - lots of resources if you want to learn PHP

PHP.net

Free Software Foundation - where the Open Source movement began

www.free-soft.org/

TafeFrontiers - Victoria's own professional development and resource support organisation for Vocational Ed+Train'g

TafeFrontiers.com.au

Thornbury Women's Neighbourhood House

Thornbury Women's NH

Flexible Learning Leaders at the FlexibleLearning.net.au (FLAG)

Flexible Learning Leaders (FLL)

Australian National Training Authority (ANTA)

ANTA.gov.au

Other Free Stuff

Free Web Space?

Web hosting for Victorian community organisations - if your internet service provider won't give you enough web space

Can't afford free software?

* Try the Victorian Software Rolling Fund (subsidised commercial software - eg Adobe, Macromedia - for educational organisations)

* Vicnet community deal

* Victorian Software Rolling Fund