Site Progress

"Curriki:" A Goofy Name for a Valuable New Open Source Teaching Resource

The Open Source Movement has a new player with deep pockets (i.e., lots of money) and a wish to leave an legacy in the world of education.

Site Strategy and Progress

Work on our second ISO downloadable CD, Teacher Time Savers, was completed

Project Gutenberg and eReader™: Free Electronic Books

Project Gutenberg and eReader™ are not exactly Open Source, but both offer access to free eBooks.

"Content is King" on the Internet, but content for teachers is often expensive...oftern obscenely so.

Site Strategy and Progress

Work on our second ISO downloadable CD was set aside in favor of a competing project. Look for links to the second ISO CD next month in this "Site Strategy" category.

Donation Coder: Not Exactly Open Source...
But a Great Deal for Teachers

Teachers like "Free". In fact, no cost is the only reasonable strategy that teachers have before dipping into their own pockets for necessities for their classrooms.

Free Graphic Organizer CD Available Online

Download your No-Cost Copy and Share the CD with your Colleagues

Visual Thought™ - A Free Mapping and Diagramming Tool

Visual Thought™ is actually "Freeware" rather than an Open Source program. (The difference is in the wording of the license).

Site Strategy and Progress

Our flagship Web site, Classroom Toolkit.Com averaged 96 visitors a day during the month of August, 2006. This was almost double last month's daily average.

Learning Management Systems: Course Development Software for Free!

Some school districts pay a lot of money for commercial Learning Management Systems (LMSs), although most school districts don't use them. However, some Open Source advocates suggest that school districts turn to free LMS alternatives and offer online courses for their students. Here is Classroom Toolkit's stance on this topic.

Site Strategy and Progress

Our flagship Web site, Classroom Toolkit.Com averaged 58 visitors a day during the month of July, 2006.