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=** Open Source **=

Open source applications makes source code available for free to the public with relaxed or no copyright restrictions. It makes online applications truly collaborative, anyone can modify the code. Students can work on documents and presentations together from their own computers without having to meet in person.

Some Open Source Sites:
Google: [|http://www.google.com] Google has become synonymous with web searches. Google Docs allows multiple users to create, edit, and share spreadsheets, presentations, etc as well as documents using the internet. Multiple users can edit at one time. Google also provides IGoogle as a start page you can customize, Google Sites is their wiki application, and Google Apps Education can work for your who district. It is actually a closed system and requires a system administrator to set it up. media type="youtube" key="eRqUE6IHTEA" height="344" width="425" Video by Google found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9sENSA_sjI&eurl

Buzzword: https://buzzword.acrobat.com/ Create, edit and share documents online. Only one user at a time may edit the document, but once that user saves the doc, another may edit. While someone is editing, other users are able to make comments. Documents are saved in Buzzword so they can be accessed from any computer at any time. Bubbl.us : http://bubbl.us/ Bubbl.us is basically an online brainstorming tool. You don’t have to be a registered user to create a “mind map.” You can work with groups to create map and save it as an image, email it or embed it in a website when you are done.

Reading About Open Source
(2008). Interesting ways to use Docs in the classroom. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/10/interesting-ways-to-use-docs-in.html Kapor, Mitchell. (2005). How is Open Source Special? http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/HowIsOpenSourceSpecial/40535 Kelly, Kevin. (2008). Better Than Free. http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php Online Education Database. (2007). How the Open Source Movement has Changed Education. http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories Stallman, Richard. (1997). The Right to Read. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html