- Comic Life (Mac, Win)
- Engaging software for developing literacy concepts. Education Site Licences available. See also:
- Comic Life in the Classroom
Flashkit Fonts- Free Fonts.
Fontface- More fonts!
Google Earth Pro (Mac, Win)- Supports a variety of plugins that will enrich your lessons. Free for Education.
Ideal Resources (Mac, Win)- Wide range of resources for IWBs.
- iLife (Mac)
- Includes iPhoto, iWeb, iDVD, iMovie, Garageband. Pre-installed on all Macs.
Rush Software (Mac, Win)- Australian producers of a range of curriculum support software - cloze, crossword, boardmaker, find-a-word, maths worksheets, small business simulation, etc.
OpenOffice (Mac, Win, Lin)- Full office software suite. Free.
Pluzzle (Mac)- Tile-shuffling puzzle game. Free.
Scratch (Mac, Win)- Create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art - and share your creations on the web.
starQuiz (Mac, Win)- Computerised quiz generator. Create a test, then upload to the web, then check results.
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- Animation and Stop-motion
- Links to a variety of software to create your own Wallace & Grommet extravaganza!
Array (Mac, Win) - An interesting "peg-board" animation program. Free.
SAM Animation- Stop motion softeware to create animations using any camera. Free.
Stykz (Mac, Win, Lin)- Easy to use stick figure animation application - includes features such as onionskinning, individual manipulation of line segments within figures, layering of figures and lines, etc. Free.
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- Blender (Mac, Win, Lin)
- Open source 3D image rendering program that can also be used for CAD. Free.
CADintosh (Mac)- High performance 2D CAD program.
Google SketchUp (Mac, Win)- 3D modeling program to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, etc. Free.
SweetHome 3D (Mac, Win, Lin)- Interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. (Free)
VectorWorks (Mac, Win)- High-end commercial 2D/3D drawing package. Australian distributor.
Yenka Coordinates (Mac, Win)- A free modelling tool for teaching about 2D and 3D coordinates.
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- ArtRage (Mac/Win)
- A painting package designed to provide a realistic simulation of using paint on a canvas. Great with a graphics tablet. Free version available. Education Site Licences available.
Beautiful Dorena (Mac)- Very similar to Kid Pix (written by the guy who wrote Kid Pix!)
Blender (Mac, Win, Lin)- Open source 3D image rendering program that can also be used for CAD. Free.
DrawBerry (Mac)- A vector drawing application drawing that includes layers, inspectors and workspace, etc. Free.
DrawIt (Mac)- Image editing and drawing application (10.5). Non-destructive editing, live filters, powerful vector tools, a standard collection of basic shapes.
DrawWell (Mac)- DTP Layout and Drawing software. (About $US50)
Doozla (Mac)- Colouring in, Drawing over webcam photos - great for kids of all ages!
EazyDraw (Mac)- Designed in the spirit of classic Mac drawing applications. Import and edit AppleWorks, ClarisDraw, MacDraw/Pro files.
GraphicConverter (Mac)- The Swiss Army knife of Mac graphics programs. Reads & saves in a huge
variety of formats.
Inkscape (Mac, Win, Lin)- An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand & CorelDraw. Free.
Irfan View (Win)- Useful for screen captures and general graphics editing. Free.
Kid Pix (Mac, Win)- Wide variety of applications across all KLAs and Stages.
PaintBrush (Mac)- Basic bitmap painting program.
TuxPaint (Mac, Win, Lin)- Drawing, painting stamping for young children. Free.
See also: Tuxpaint Aussie Stamps - Australian coins, bank notes, signs, animals, plants, state flags, etc.
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- Cloze Wizard (Mac, Win)
- Provides for quick and easy production of cloze passage exercises and a range of other language based worksheets.
Crossword Wizard (Mac, Win)- Full and Lite versions. Demo available.
- Find-a-word Wizard (Mac, Win)
- Provides a quick and easy method of creating language worksheets for students to practice their reading and writing skills.
Master Spell (Mac)- Spelling tutor and drilling software. Free.
Wordle- Build your own word clouds online.
WordNetX (Mac) - An online lexical reference system - dictionary, thesaurus, etc. Free.
Wordnik- Online lookup for word definitions, usage examples, pronunciations, etymologies, thesaurus, synonyms and acronyms.
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- Audacity (Mac, Win)
- Sound editing software. Free.
iLife (Mac)- Includes Garageband. Pre-installed on all Macs.
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Philharmonic KidZone- Interative music site. (Shockwave dependent - no good for Mac OSX)
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- DaisyMaths (Mac, Win)
- Graded maths activities. Free.
EdenGraph (Mac)- A 2D Graphing calculator
for OSX. Free.
FrakKalk (Mac)- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide large fractions without having to convert from decimal form - results as simplified fractions.
Logo - (advanced maths & programming)- ACSLogo (Mac)
XLogo (Mac) Younger students
MSW Logo (Win)
FMS Logo (Win)
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Terrific Triangles (Mac, Win)- A maths drill program for both addition/subtraction and multiplication/division.
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- FreeMind (Mac, Win, Lin)
- A free mind-mapping alternative
to Inspiration. Free.
- MindNode (Mac)
- Mind mapping software - pro and free versions.
TheBrain (Mac, Win, Lin)- Type in your ideas. Drag and drop files and web pages. Any idea can be linked to anything else. Free version available.
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- Wazza's Web 2 Stuff
- Lots of web 2 apps that are suitable for use in a school environment.
BrainPop- Online activities supporting a wide variety of learning areas.
- Mr Picaso Head
- Create your own Picaso using this online face creator.
MakeBeliefComics- Online comic creator.
Mind Reader (Maths)- See if your students can work this out!
Wordle- Build your own word clouds online.
- Wordnik
- Lookup word definitions, usage examples, pronunciations, etymologies, thesaurus, synonyms and acronyms.
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- Doozla (Mac)
- Colouring in, Drawing over webcam photos - great for kids of all ages!
- GraphicConverter (Mac)
- The Swiss Army knife of Mac graphics programs. Reads & saves in a huge
variety of formats.
- iLife (Mac)
- Includes iPhoto. Pre-installed on all Macs.
Image Tricks (Mac)- Edit and apply a wide variety of effects to photos. Free.
MorphX (Mac)- Transform one image into another. Free.
MugShot Machine (Mac)- Similar to Photo Booth - includes overlays and a Kiosk mode.
- Picasa (Mac, Win)
- Organise, view, edit and tag photos in albums. Free.
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- Celtx (Mac, Win, Lin)
- All-in-one media pre-production software. Take your story from concept to production with preloaded forms for key elements like locations, scenes, props, characters, and 32 other production categories.
Flip4Mac (Mac)- Play wmv movies using Quicktime.
iLife (Mac)- Includes iiMovie, iDVD and Garageband. Pre-installed on all Macs.
- Memories on TV (Win)
- Create and burn a photo slideshow to DVD.
Storyboard Composer- Students can storyboard their next movie on their iPhone/iPod Touch.
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- Wazza's Web Editing for Beginners
- Options for getting started with an online site.
iLife (Mac)- Includes iWeb. Pre-installed on all Macs.
Komposer (Mac/Win/Lin)- A web page eeditor based on the Mozilla Nvu project.
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- AbiWord (Mac, Win, Lin)
- AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
Bean (Mac)- Small, fast, easy-to-use word processor. Free.
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