- 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!
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- Array (Mac, Win)
- An interesting "peg-board" animation program. Free.
SAM Animation (Mac, Win)- Stop motion softeware to create animations using any camera. (Free version available).
SingleFramer (Mac)- Capture individual frames from a DV camera, either manually or automatically to create time-lapse movies. 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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- TUX Typing (Mac, Win, Lin)
- Tux the penguin is hungry, and loves to eat fish. But Tux can only catch the fish if you type the right letters in time! Can you help Tux? Open source.
TypeTrainer4Mac- Donationware
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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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