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[E. Cheker]

Hi,
I am looking for the best freeware that can be used for the 12-17 year olds
Information Technology (ICT) education. Can you recommend any?.
Thanks in advance
E.Cheker

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

I am looking for the best freeware that can be used for the 12-17 year olds
Information Technology (ICT) education.

??
Well how about an animated movie about how the Internet networks work
<http://www.warriorsofthe.net/movie.html> - free for non-commercial
use. 73MB or 123MB mpeg download, 5MB trailer. Available in English,
German, French, Hebrew, Dutch, Swedish and Spanish.

For a description of content see manuscript
<http://www.warriorsofthe.net/misc/story.html>
and also see onsite faq, the how and why.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Offbreed]

Hi,
I am looking for the best freeware that can be used for the 12-17 year olds
Information Technology (ICT) education. Can you recommend any?.
Thanks in advance
E.Cheker

Assuming this is for school:

The freeware here is mostly for Microsoft OS's. Jobs related to the
DOS based OS's are decressing and the jobs relating to NT should crest
and start falling off about the time the youngest hit the job market.
I base this guess on the security problems M$ is having, and a hunch
that M$ is going to have to either start over with a new family of
OS's (as Apple did in adopting FreeBSD) or do such a massive rewrite
of NT that it amounts to the same thing.

I'd really consider sneaking in a few classes on Linux and BSD.
Neither of them is really ready for the big time (IMO), but they are
getting there. Besides, the more different ways the kids know, the
less confused they will be in tackling something new.

http://www.bsd.org/
http://www.linux.org/

Programs and OS's do not become less functional just because something
fancier can do the same job on a more expensive computer, so there is
no reason for the older OS's to vanish for a while. Jobs with them
will be a bit hard to find, though.

 

[Neowulf (Aaron VonDerheide)]

Hi,
I am looking for the best freeware that can be used for the 12-17 year olds
Information Technology (ICT) education. Can you recommend any?.
Thanks in advance
E.Cheker

What do you want them to do?

This site might be a bit too much:
[ http://www.discoveryvip.com/tutorials.htm ]

My favorite professor experienced on IT:
[ http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/dec ]
He has some papers available, but they don't seem to be very serious (like
the one called, "How to escape during a Ph.D. Final Exam".)

I'll keep working on it. Maybe e-mail me [ neowulf @ earthlink.net ] to
remind me...


Do you need apps?

You might be able to use Eve to make a presentation

1stPage2000 (www.evrsoft.com) has a nice interface that allows easy, medium
and expert modes for its user interface. Easy mode lets you code HTML real
easily, until you get used to the more advanced options. (It has a JScript
worm in it, though, so scan it with an antivirus app--or just delete the
Script from Hell, as the name is pretty much a dead giveaway.)


Good enough for now,

Aaron (Neowulf.net)

 

[E. Cheker]

Thanks for the replies that come so far.

Hi,
I am looking for the best freeware that can be used for the 12-17 year olds
Information Technology (ICT) education. Can you recommend any?.
Thanks in advance
E.Cheker

What do you want them to do?

This site might be a bit too much:
[ http://www.discoveryvip.com/tutorials.htm ]

My favorite professor experienced on IT:
[ http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/dec ]
He has some papers available, but they don't seem to be very serious (like
the one called, "How to escape during a Ph.D. Final Exam".)

I'll keep working on it. Maybe e-mail me [ neowulf @ earthlink.net ] to
remind me...


Do you need apps?

You might be able to use Eve to make a presentation

1stPage2000 (www.evrsoft.com) has a nice interface that allows easy, medium
and expert modes for its user interface. Easy mode lets you code HTML real
easily, until you get used to the more advanced options. (It has a JScript
worm in it, though, so scan it with an antivirus app--or just delete the
Script from Hell, as the name is pretty much a dead giveaway.)


Good enough for now,

Aaron (Neowulf.net)

 

[BillR]

Hi,
I am looking for the best freeware that can be used for the 12-17 year olds
Information Technology (ICT) education. Can you recommend any?.
Thanks in advance
E.Cheker

Could you be more specific about your purpose? Is this for the lab?
For a wide variety of courses? For a specific introductory course for
beginners? Perhaps my US background is showing and the other readers
are familiar with your terminology.

BillR

 

[E. Cheker]

Thanks Bill,
I am glad that you've expanded the thread. What I am looking for is:
Utility freewares to make learning easy of programming such as
Spreadesheets, Databases...etc,
Advanced examples are also wellcome for students of 17-18 year old's,
dealing with macro programming (mini VBA applications, mini projects...etc).
For smaller age groups freewares to help kids learn basics of using a PC,
DTP are also wellcome.
Hope I made muyself a bit clearer now.
Thanks to everybody that have answered and the candidate ones that may add
on...
Sincerely
E.Cheker