Open Source & Freeware Resources

Communication Tools

• WordPress
  Platform:      Web Server Needed
  Description: WordPress is a state-of-the-art personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
• BubbleShare.com
  Platform:      Web
  Description: Upload photos and create slideshows and albums to post on your blog or wiki.
• Slide.com
  Platform:      Web
  Description: Slide makes widgets that help people express themselves and tell emotionally engaging stories through personalized photos and videos created on Slide.com and viewed anywhere on the web or their desktop.
• Blogger.com
  Platform:      WEB
  Description: Blogger.com is an easy-to-use site, where you can create your own blog, post thoughts, interact with people, and more.
• The Blogmeister
  Platform:      WEB
  Description: Sign up your class with the Blogmeister and you will be blogging in no time.

• Audacity
  Platform:      Linux, Windows, OSX
  Description: An easy to use sound file editor with many advanced features and options.
• The Levelator
  Platform:      Windows, OSX
  Description: The Levelator adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next.
• Real Player 10
  Platform:      Linux, Windows, OSX
  Description: A music player that plays music files, video files, and Internet mp3 streams.
• Rosegarden
  Platform:      Linux
  Description: This program is a "professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment."
• AmaroK
  Platform:      Linux
  Description: Arguably the best music player for Linux and one of the best compared to alternatives on Mac OSX and Windows.
• LilyPond
  Platform:      Linux, Windows, OSX
  Description: LilyPond is a program that puts the beauty of hand engraved music back into music printed from a computer.

• VLC Media Player
  Platform:      Linux, Windows, OSX
  Description: It is a free cross-platform media player that supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs.
• Real Player 10
  Platform:      Linux, Windows, OSX
  Description: A music player that plays music files, video files, and Internet mp3 streams.

• PhotoStory 3
  Platform:      Windows
  Description: Photo Story 3 includes features that enable you to create a slideshow with your digital pictures, edit your pictures, create your story with original music, add narration, and share them with your family and friends.
• Windows Movie Maker
  Platform:      Windows
  Description: With Movie Maker, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops.
• CamStudio
  Platform:      Windows
  Description: CamStudio records activity from your screen and audio from a microphone into AVI video files and can also convert the AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) using its built-in SWF Producer.
• Cinelerra
  Platform:      Linux
  Description: Cinelerra provides a professional quality video editing system.
• Flow
  Platform:      Linux
  Description: Flow is a particle effects editor (useful mainly in 3D games).
• KToon
  Platform:      Linux, OSX
  Description: KToon is a 2D animation toolkit designed for the cartoon industry that still has a focus on usability.
• Moonlight|3D
  Platform:      Linux, Windows
  Description: This program is a 3D modeling and animation program.
• Synfig
  Platform:      Linux, Windows, OSX
  Description: Synfig is a "film quality 2D vector animation" program.

• Skype
  Platform: Windows
  Description: It’s free to download and free to call other people on Skype
• Jott.com
  Platform:      Web
  Description: Send emails, text messages or take notes with your mobile phone. Never forget an idea or meeting with this hands-free voice dictation and transcription services.

• Ning
  Platform: Web
  Description: Ning is the only online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds.
• Chatzy Chat
  Platform:      Web
  Description: Chatzy is a free private chat service. Fill out the form to create a chat room immediately - only for you and the people you invite!
• iTALC
  Platform: Web
  Description: iTALC is a  powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways.

• Ceative Commons
  Platform: Web
  Description: Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally --Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
• Pod Safe Music Network
  Platform:      Web
  Description: Find great free podsafe music by independent artists for all your podcasting needs.