Teachers love free stuff...In the past year we've highlighted hundreds of Windows apps aimed at making your life easier, boosting your computer productivity, and powering up your PC.
Free-Reading is an ongoing, collaborative, teacher-based, curriculum-sharing experiment. We're looking to provide a reliable forum where teachers can openly and freely share their successful and effective methods for teaching reading in grades K-1.
Our premises are:
* The research on how students learn to read is well-established.
* The research on which instructional techniques work is well-understood.
* The voices of those who know what works best -- the classroom teachers -- are rarely heard in instructional design.
* The power of "we" is far greater than the power of "you" or "I."
Download a dodecahedral calendar. You can choose between PostScript and PDF format. Choose PostScript format if you want to mark holidays and birthdays. The PostScript file explains how to do it.
Brose by topic or enter a search to find pics on any topic. Student friendly.
These free posters are offered by the Institute of Engineering and Technology. They are primarily electrical posters (e.g., current, voltage, circuits, etc.)
A growing collection of free science instructional videos.
If you're interested in specific open courses, you can find a variety on the Web (or through this list of 100 courses). Usually, those single courses will contain all the materials you need to learn one subject for free. But, if you're after more than a single focus or if you need a deeper perspective on a subject, this list of open courseware collections may be just what you need. Each resource listed below contains a collection or collections of educational materials. You'll find digital archives, a variety of courses, Podcasts, videos and sometimes a mix of everything you can imagine so you can learn any given subject in depth.
Free Me is a site which aims to show off the best of Free Cultue, ranging from movies you can watch in your player to a LiveCD you can experience on your computer.
I’ve chosen one program for each of the 3 macro categories: symbolic, numeric and statistical computing, but you can expect quite a bit of overlapping and shared functionalities. Try the three of them, try the suggested alternatives and settle with the ones that you like and that meet your needs the best.