Only Freeware is included. The lists will vary over time with programs added and removed [see below]. For commercial products, see company listings provided in the Other Information section or commercial offerings in stores, newspapers and magazines.

This page covers Teacher Tools, Technology & Design, The Arts and Other Information.

A First Page covers Cross Curricula, Health & Physical Education and Language.

A Second Page covers Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences and Special Education.

Each of these pages can also be reached using the numbered boxes above.

Software for Other Languages is included on the various Other Language pages. Some specialist software is on Special Education and Technology & Design pages. Software for Tertiary Subjects is included on those pages.

Products are listed under Primary, Secondary or All Levels. Where none have been found or seen to be relevant, no section is included.

When software is removed, it is placed in the Educational Software Archive to allow continued access. It is listed by area and title only.

Teacher Tools

Primary & Secondary

• Ardora
  ‘Ardora is a computer application that allows all the teachers to create their own activities in html format, in order to be used by the students in a very simple way. Create more than 45 different kinds of interactive activities, crosswords, word searches, fill in the gaps, graphical panels, clocks … as well as ten different kinds of multimedia activities’.
• Diigo
  ‘Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network. If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other’. Fee-based but very reasonable indeed.
• Fifty Sneakers
  ‘Create, Store and Deliver worksheets, exams and quizzes as printable documents or online tests. Fifty Sneakers is Free to use with additional premium features available for a small monthly fee’.
  A simpler, earlier version known as Quizinator was listed previously.
• LearnBoost
  ‘Free and amazing gradebook. Lead the way with our gradebook, lesson planner, attendance, reporting and calendar. For teachers, parents and students’. All online so no need to download.
• LiveBinders
  ‘LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the Web. Collect your resources; Organise them neatly and easily; Make an Impression. Best of all, it’s Free !’. Samples available to view. All tools provided.
• Mimosa Scheduling Software Free Edition
  ‘Mimosa is well known in the education community as a versatile scheduling and course-planning application that’s used in schools and universities around the world’.
• Printable Paper
  ‘More than 740 papers you can download and print for free. We’ve got graph paper, lined paper, financial paper, music paper and more’.
• Quiz Game Generator
  ‘Create Interactive Quiz Games on the topics of your choice. No need to know any xhtml/javascript/css stuff ! Turn Questions and Answers into exciting Web Based Quiz Games you can keep’.
• Symbaloo
  ‘Symbaloo is a new way to organise, share your online life and discover that of others’. You can watch a Symbaloo Introduction [YouTube] video here. Also has available apps. Highly regarded.
• Tools
  ‘Over 2 000 Tools for Learning - for schools, colleges, universities and the workplace’.
  Note not all of the tools are Free.
• XMind
  ‘A revolutionary way to enable both team brainstorming and personal mind mapping. With this major upgrade, we bring Web 2.0 concepts on community sharing into a popular desktop application’. Also useful for teacher professional development activities.

Secondary

• MindRaider
  ‘To help you in the organisation of your knowledge and associated web, local and realworld resources in a way that enables quick navigation, concise representation and inferencing’.
• QZ - School Management System
  ‘Whether you are running the childcare, daycare, infant care, learning centre or even the mixed mode business model and trying looking for suitable software that can smooth your business operation, QZ School Management System [SMS is your choice’.
• Visual Understanding Environment [VUE]
  ‘The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting and sharing digital information’. You can watch a Webinar on how to use VUE at this site or get a VUE2 Handout at this site.

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Technology & Design

Early Learning

• Desktop Writer for Kids
  ‘A word processor designed for both children and novice computer users. This program is perfect for people who are novices to computers or who have learning difficulties because it has colourful buttons and large text’. Also suitable for Early Learning students.
• Scratch
  ‘Scratch is a programming environment for beginners, where kids can use a simple programming syntax to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art, and share their creations on the web’ [EducationalFreeware].

Primary & Secondary

• Cetina CAD Software
  Part of a suite of programs covering this area.
• Circuit Maker
  The Free student edition of a commercial program, CircuitMaker, to design and simulate logic circuits. Note that this software is available only for student use on their own computers.
• KeyBlaze Typing Tutor
  ‘KeyBlaze is a typing tutor software program designed to assist with learning how to speed type and touch type’.
• Webdwarf
  ‘WebDwarf is Virtual Mechanics’ Free, easy to use drag-and-drop web page maker. Features include a word processor with spell checker and link editor, built-in graphics creation and image editing, enhanced page layout including a snap-to grid & tabs and an FTP client’.

Secondary

• Art Of Illusion
  ‘Art of Illusion is a Free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.5 or late’.
• Circuit Diagram - A Circuit Diagram Maker
  ‘Circuit Diagram is a Free, open source application which enables you to make electronic circuit diagrams and export them as images’.
• OpenRAVE
  ‘OpenRAVE provides an environment for testing, developing, and deploying motion planning algorithms in real-world robotics applications. The main focus is on simulation and analysis of kinematic and geometric information related to motion planning’.
• Synfig Studio
  ‘Synfig Studio is a Free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need to create animation frame-by-frame, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people and resources. Synfig Studio is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X’. Could also be used in The Arts area.

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The Arts

Early Learning

• Drawing for Children
  ‘A Free drawing program for children with many nice options. You can draw with many different pens, you can put stamps on your drawings, create all sort of text effects, and much more. The program is suitable for very young children and has a child mode especially for them’.
• Music Games
  ‘Early learning musical activities, ideal for [Key] Stage 1. Windows and Mac versions. Documentation available separately’.

Primary

• Artrage 2 Starter Edition
  ‘Try out 8 of the painting tools from the latest version of ArtRage 2 along with a number of the basic features of the product. The installer includes the full user manual for reference, and some basic resources for use as Tracing Images. The Starter Edition does not have a time limit, and includes the ability to load, save, and print pictures’
• Recorder Buddy
  ‘It teaches you both the correct fingering for each note and to read music through drills’.
• Sketch Studio
  ‘Drawing program designed to teach children how to draw on the computer. It has a simple interface, a limited number of brush options and is easy to learn. One of the best features is the built-in drawing lessons’.

Primary & Secondary

• Artweaver
  ‘Artweaver lets you paint creatively with the help of a huge range of painting tools. You can create sketches from photos or just experiment with colours. For professional users, Artweaver offers layers, group layers and support for the PSD file format’.
• AutoCollage 2008
  ‘Photo collages celebrate important events and themes in our lives. Pick a folder, press a button, and in a few minutes AutoCollage presents you with a unique memento to print or email to your family and friends’.
• MyPaint
  ‘MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it’.
• FotoSketcher
  ‘FotoSketcher is a 100% Free program for Windows which converts your digital photos into art automatically and in just a few mouse clicks. Over 20 different styles are available from pencil sketches to watercolor or oil paintings, pen & ink drawings and cartoons’.
• Jalmus
  ‘Jalmus is a Free, open source music education software helping the musicians, specially pianists, to improve their sight-reading. You can train to read music with both exercises on notes or rhythms. Jalmus is developed in Java and so available on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS’.
• Piano Chords
  ‘With the program Piano Chords you can see many different chords and scales on a virtual piano keyboard. All popular chords and scales included. Invertation of chords possible. Different input options for displaying notes on the virtual piano keyboard. Integrated help system’.
• Presto Keys
  ‘Learn how to play piano, read music and rapidly improve your piano skills through this fully customisable and interactive program that caters for those who have never touched a piano in their lives’. Requires Java. Be sure to get the Free version.

Secondary

• Crescendo Music Notation Editor
  ‘A simple and intuitive way to work with musical notation, Crescendo allows you to create, save and print your music inventions on your computer. The wide array of notation symbols, time and key signatures, and text, all on a free-form layout, gives you the most control over your music arrangements’.
• RealWorld Paint
  An image and paint program with layers, compatibility with photoshop and GIMP, animated gifs and much more, and presented in a simple manner.

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Other Information

Reviews & Recommendations

• Catalogue of Free and Open Source Software for Education
  ‘The educational software varies from mathematics to music, from science to graphics, from programming to educational games and includes office tools, business software, network tools and security software. The aim is to make finding software easier by categorising them by Key Learning Areas used in Education’. You can download via the site.
• Computing With Kids
  Recommended software for early learning, much in game format.
• K12 Open Source
  Listing of back-office software and software for use in classrooms. There is information on resources, lesson plans, more.
• Maths Shareware and Freeware [for PC & Mac]
  Some are very specifically tasked.
• Superkids
  Educational software review site. Reviews, bestseller lists, product support, worksheets, games, brain food, reading corner.
• The Computer Museum
  No, not an old computer collection, but it will tell you about Reading software.

Other Worthwhile Information

• Eduforge
  ‘Open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. You are welcome to use our community resources or start your own project space. Registration is Free’. Check their Toolbox for programs and other tools.
• Schools Interoperability Framework Association
  ‘The vision is that schools will be enabled to better utilize technology in a manner that leverages the promise and capabilities of interoperability between disparate applications. SIFA brings together the developers and vendors of school technology with the federal, state and local educators who use that technology’.

Publishers of Computerised Learning Materials

• AmazingEdu
  Physics and Mathematics, most at secondary level.
• BBC
• Broderbund
• Dorling Kindersley
• Ectaco Australia and New Zealand
• Educational Freeware
  ‘Dedicated to listings, descriptions and reviews of the best free educational software for kids and grown-ups. Some software is web based, some is Windows software that you can download. Many titles are multilingual’.
• Educational Software Cooperative
  Shareware.
• Educational Teacher Software Downloads
  Freeware, shareware, etc., for both Windows and Mac. In subject areas.
• Education.com
  Jumpstart software.
• Eduss Limited Australia
  Educational Software Developers
• Eptsoft
  Mostly in the mathematical area, senior or tertiary students.
• Eurotalk & Learning Company
• Free and Open Source Educational Software
  ‘OSWINS DVD is a collection of Free and Open Source software for educational use that run on Windows. The educational software varies from mathematics to music, from science to graphics, from programming to educational games and includes office tools, business software, network tools and security software’.
• Future School Learning Systems
  ‘Advanced, tailor-made Learning Systems in CD-ROM, video and online format’. Australian.
• IBS Infotech
• I Know That
  US based supplier of educational software and learning materials that will entrance those aged 2-12.
• InterActive Educational Software
• Learning Power
  ‘We are Educational Software Developers and suppliers of the LearningPOWER suite of products including MathsPOWER, EnglishPOWER, SciencePOWER and My Letters and Numbers’.
• Mindscape
• New Horizons
• Owl & Mouse, Educational Software
  Mostly Free.
• Ray’s Educational Software
  Shareware.
• Scholastic
• Schoolforge
  Free Educational Software.
• Sheppard Software
  Shareware.
• The Learning Village
  Software for children’s learning especially in language.
• Training Wheels Software
  ‘Descriptions, links to download Training Wheels Software products. We are now offering all of our products Free of charge, with No Registration Required’. Includes early learner’s browser.
• Video Education Australasia
  Now need to register/Log In to access full reviews and downloads.

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