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The FNF – Free Information, Free Culture, Free Society | The Free Network Foundation
"Who We Are

We are an organization committed to the tenets of free information, free culture, and free society.
We hold that advances in information technology provide humanity with the ability to effectively face global challenges.
We contend that our very ability to mobilize, organize, and bring about change depends on our ability to communicate.
We see that our ability to communicate is purchased from a handful of powerful entities.
We know that we cannot depend on these entities to support movement away from a status quo from which they are the beneficiaries.
We believe that access to a free network is a human right, and a necessary tool for environmental and social justice.

What We’re Doing

We envision communications infrastructure that is owned and operated cooperatively, by the whole of humanity, rather than by corporations and states.
We are using the power of peer-to-peer technologies to create a global network which is resistant to censorship and breakdown.
We promote free
innovation  cooperation  communications  socialjustice  humanrights  humanity  democracy  freesociety  freeculture  culure  society  information  opensource  open  free  networks  networking  mesh  freedom  network  pablovaronaborges  tyronegreenfield  charleswyble  isaacwilder  from delicious
4 days ago by robertogreco
Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
"ONLY THE BEST COMMERCIAL-USE FREE FONTS
Free fonts have met their match. We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We've done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format. Here are some of our favorites:"
design  via:derrickschultz  fonts  free  typography  from delicious
8 days ago by robertogreco
NetLogo Home Page
"NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by tens of thousands of students, teachers and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You can download it free of charge.

What can you do with NetLogo? Read more here. Click here for intro video."
edg  srg  free  hubnet  coding  via:maxfenton  netlogo  logo  complexity  visualization  modeling  education  programming  from delicious
8 days ago by robertogreco
Choice of Games
"Choice of Games is a small partnership dedicated to producing high-quality, text-based, multiple-choice games. We produce games in house, beginning with Choice of the Dragon and Choice of Broadsides. We have also developed a simple scripting language for writing text-based games, ChoiceScript, which we make available to others for use in their projects, and we host games produced by other designers using ChoiceScript on our website. All of our games are available for free on the web. We also produce mobile versions of our games that can be played on iPhones, Android phones, and other smartphones."
coding  choicescript  interactivefiction  if  interactive  free  online  ios  iphone  edg  srg  applications  android  gaming  games  text-basedgames  text-basedadventures  choiceofgames  from delicious
18 days ago by robertogreco
Way - Coco & Co
"In way, two strangers learn to speak."

"Way is a two-player online game where anonymous strangers speak and collaborate with puppetry."
puppetry  communication  collaboration  windows  osx  mac  srg  edg  indie  free  videogames  gaming  games  way  waygame  from delicious
10 weeks ago by robertogreco
The Public Domain Review |
"The Public Domain Review aspires to become a bounteous gateway into this whopping plenitude that is the public domain, helping our readers to explore this rich terrain by surfacing unusual and obscure works, and offering fresh reflections and unfamiliar angles on material which is more well known.

With our curated collection of exotic scraps and marvellous rarities and comprehensively linking to freely distributable copies of works in online archives and from far flung corners of the web, we hope to encourage readers to further utilise and explore public domain works by themselves. To this end we have also put together a “Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online”.

We also hope to act as a platform to writers and scholars to write about more unusual and obscure works which they might not get a chance to do elsewhere."
publicdomainreview  curation  archives  art  free  history  publicdomain  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
The unconference is alive | THATCamp
"the term “unconference” is sometimes used in cases where it’s hard to see what’s so “un” about the conference. I specifically remember deciding not to tweet the otherwise intriguing-sounding “Indigenous Innovation Unconference” when I saw how much they were emphasizing their six eminent speakers and how little they were emphasizing any kind of participant-driven program. Similarly, plenty of events that call themselves unconferences seem to have whole slews of presentations, which strikes me as odd."
egalitarian  hierarchy  unschooling  deschooling  self-organizedlearningenvironment  self-organizedlearning  informality  open  rules  copyleft  mitchjoel  haroldbloom  free  amandafrench  2012  edcamp  thatcamp  unconferences 
february 2012 by robertogreco
Bean: An OS X Word Processor
"Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is lean, fast and uncluttered. It starts up quickly, has a live word count, and is easy on the eyes. Also, Bean is available free of charge.

MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people, but sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche.

Bean has some limitations: it doesn't do footnotes or use stylesheets and is only partially compatible with Word's file formats. Also, it allows in-line graphics, but not floating graphics."
via:ayjay  applications  wordprocessing  wordprocessor  freeware  free  mac  osx  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Welcome to Open Library (Open Library)
"Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

Other projects include the Wayback Machine, archive.org, nasaimages.org, archive-it.org & opencontentalliance.org."
opensource  libraries  literature  free  reference  ebooks  books  openlibrary  freeculture  lcproject  reading  internetarchive  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Learn 40 Languages for Free with Free Audio Lessons | Open Culture
"How to learn languages for free? This collection features lessons in 40 languages, including Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and more. Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go."
languages  language  learning  arabic  spanish  bulgarian  catalan  chinese  mandarin  danish  dutch  english  esperanto  finnish  french  free  gaelic  german  greek  hebrew  hindi  hungarian  indonesian  irish  italian  japanese  korean  latin  lithuanian  luxembourgish  maori  norwegian  polish  portuguese  romanian  russian  swedish  tagalog  thai  ukranian  urdu  vietnamese  yiddish  lessons  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
DIY Days – a roving conference for those who create
"DIY DAYS is a roving conference for those who create. Past stops have included Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia. FREE to participants and organized by volunteers – DIY DAYS is about the accessibility of ideas, resources and networking that can enable storytellers to fund, create, distribute and sustain."
diy  conferences  free  losangeles  sanfrancisco  nomadic  creativity  glvo  classideas  sharing  networking  nyc  making  doing  diydays  media  community  roving  collaboration  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
Help Exchange: free volunteer work exchange abroad Australia New Zealand Canada Europe
"HelpX is an online listing of host organic farms, non-organic farms, farmstays, homestays, ranches, lodges, B&Bs, backpackers hostels and even sailing boats who invite volunteer helpers to stay with them short-term in exchange for food and accommodation.<br />
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HelpX is provided primarily as a cultural exchange for working holiday makers who would like the opportunity during their travels abroad, to stay with local people and gain practical experience. In the typical arrangement, the helper works an average of 4 hours per day and receives free accommodation and meals for their efforts."
education  work  travel  activism  glvo  free  helpx  exchange  us  europe  newzealand  australia  international  global  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Jolicloud - Joli OS
"Joli OS is a free and easy way to turn any computer up to 10 years old into a cool new cloud device. Get on the Web and instantly connect to all your Web apps, files and services using the computer you already own. You may never need to buy a new computer again.<br />
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It’s easy. Just download Joli OS. It installs in just 10 minutes."
software  free  opensource  freeware  os  jolicloud  joli  jolios  linux  cloud  web  netbooks  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Fruit City » Map
"a living growing map of the fruit trees in public spaces in London"
maps  mapping  food  fruit  london  foraging  free  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Downloads
"Looking for a few great, free apps to beef up your Mac? We've got you covered with our annual Lifehacker Pack for Mac. Here are the best OS X downloads for better productivity, communication, media management, and more."
productivity  freeware  macosx  software  mac  osx  free  microapps  media  mediamanagement  utilities  communication  internet  web  2011  classideas  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
The Third University
"Leicester’s Third University is an open, citizen run space where people can meet, exchange ideas and learn for free. It stands as an alternative to marketised education, a place where wealth is unimportant and divisiveness unwelcome."<br />
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[On Twitter: http://twitter.com/thirduniversity ]
thirduniversity  leicester  uk  alternative  alternativeeducation  education  freeschools  free  unschooling  deschooling  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
RSA Events: Audio - Download free podcast episodes by RSA on iTunes.
"Enjoy audio and video from RSA's free public events programme, which addresses relevant issues from the fields of science and technology, design and the arts, economics, politics and international affairs. Our speakers include internationally renowned writers, academics, business leaders, social innovators, politicians and policymakers exploring the biggest challenges facing society today."
rsa  audio  podcasts  free  policy  society  innovation  economics 
june 2011 by robertogreco
Adventures in Free Schooling
"Adventures in Free Schooling was started for several reasons: to have a dialogue about democratic, alternative, creative, and popular education and critical pedagogy; to share resources on teaching and learning that is geared towards anti-oppression and liberation; to discuss the history of schools and their impact on our society; to explore current models and experiments in alternative education, teaching, and learning; and more.The discussions and topics found here have a heavy focus on history and the relation between workplace democracy and learning-place democracy. This blog is also dedicated to education that is focused on fighting societal injustices and creating liberation through learning and teaching. Last, but not least, Adventures in Free Schooling is a space that’s purpose is to create new and innovative ideas for alternative learning places and critical teaching methods."
freeschools  free  schools  education  democracy  democraticschools  learning  unschooling  deschooling  brianvanslyke  liberation  freedom  teaching  alternativeeducation  alternative  society  lcproject  history  workplace  opression  anti-opression  colonization  pedagogy  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
One dish is served free -- with gratitude -- at Cafe Gratitude | Daily Dish | Los Angeles Times
"There’s one dish at Café Gratitude, the new vegan restaurant on North Larchmont Boulevard in Los Angeles, that stands out from the others. It’s called the I Am Grateful bowl. Piled high with shredded kale, quinoa, black beans and garlic-tahini sauce, it's filling, flavorful, healthful and free.<br />
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That's right. $0. The cafe says it’s the "community supported grain bowl" and lists the dish's suggested value ($7) but doesn't require payment. You can order the dish and pay nothing or something, or pay the suggested value and add a donation for those who can't pay. It doesn't matter how much is in your wallet."
food  free  grace  gratitude  losangeles  restaurants  cefégratitude  2011  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Dropbox - PlainText - Dropbox text editing for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. - Simplify your life
"For editing text on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. PlainText is a simple text editor with an uncomplicated, paper-like user interface. Unlike the default Notes app, PlainText allows you to create and organize your documents in folders and sync everything with Dropbox.com."
applications  free  ios  text  texteditor  dropbox  plaintext  iphone  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
D.I.Y.U.: An Experiment | DMLcentral
"Rheingold U, my current experiment in cultivating wholly online, multimedia, unaccredited, for-not-much-pay learning communities, grew out of a desire to follow the fun and act on impulse. When I impulsively tweeted  a couple of weeks ago, "Anyone willing to pay $100 for five-week Intro to Mind Amplifiers course?" I was long-practiced in the art of riding the waves of personal impulse. In fact, the most productive learning trails I've followed or blazed in life started with singular impulses that fulfill life-long interests but were triggered by superficial, even accidental proximate causes."
freelanceteaching  freelanceeducation  howardrheingold  education  deschooling  unschooling  learning  diy  socialmedia  openaccess  free  colearning  2011  community  lcproject  pln  cyberculture  digitalmedia  diyu  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
The League of Moveable Type
"We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.<br />
Like any revolution, we aim to make progress, and we need help. If you want to be a part of this free, open-source type movement, you should join us and contribute. If you have any questions about The League or the movement, get in touch."<br />
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[Good thing @lukeneff mentioned this — seems like I forgot to bookmark it last time 'round.]
fonts  typography  free  opensource  design  classideas  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Big History Project
"When Bill Gates watched Professor David Christian’s lectures on big history, he was impressed by the way that Christian organized the 13.7B year history of the universe into an elegant and approachable framework.<br />
Big history changed Gates’ perspective on history and provided a broad context for understanding many different scientific fields, prompting him to wonder if the course could have a similar effect on students. If every student took big history, could it excite students about learning, provide on-ramps to intimidating subjects (like science) and develop critical thinking skills?<br />
Gates and Christian met to explore the possibilities, agreeing on the promise of the course and the Big History Project was born.<br />
Our Pledge: Big History Project is 100% philanthropic. Materials are free to use and all project funding will go towards bringing the course to more people."
davidchristian  history  classideas  tcsnmy  bighistory  curriculum  free  interdisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  criticalthinking  via:lukeneff  science  culture  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Pen - Simple Online Publishing
"Create beautiful text based pages in seconds and share them with the world. Pen.io is the fastest way to publish. Period. View an Example Page or get some Page Ideas"<br />
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"Pen.io is a super fast way to publish content online - this page was built using Pen.io<br />
It takes just seconds to create a page and start adding content. Pen.io has been designed as a more permanent alternative to blogs. Blogs are great for posting regular content - with Pen.io, you can create a page and set and forget. "
publishing  writing  text  free  web  onlinetoolkit  classideas  simplicity  simple  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
NounProject
"Mission: “sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world's visual language”<br />
The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way. Here is our pledge to you:<br />
FREE: The symbols on this site are and always will remain free. We believe symbols can not be effectively shared with the world if they are not free<br />
SIMPLE: Everyone like simplicity. We want you to be able to come to our site and effortlessly find and obtain what you are looking for. Simple as that.<br />
FUN: We think a language that can be understood by all cultures and people is a pretty amazing thing. We also think our symbols and the objects or ideas they represent are works of art worth celebrating.<br />
HIGHEST QUALITY: We get excited about things like scale, proportion, and shape. We are committed to design and quality in everything we do."
icons  design  free  graphics  symbols  semiotics  search  archives  nouns  classideas  images  visuallanguage  language  communication  simplicity  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Top 10 iPod Touch Apps for Math Teachers: Free iPod Touch Apps and Games
"Finding free iPod Touch apps and games to use in Math classes can be a frustrating and time consuming venture. Many have limited functionality or are littered with ads for the paid versions. However, not all apps are like that. The following are my pick for the top 10 iPod Touch apps. All of them are free, and all have legitimate uses for Math teachers and their students."<br />
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[via: http://twitter.com/steelemaley/status/40072340255543296 ]
math  ipodtouch  applications  ios  education  mathematics  learning  free  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Welcome to CCK11 ~ CCK11
"Connectivism & Connective Knowledge is an open online course that over 12 weeks explores the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning. Participation is open to everyone and there are no fees or subscriptions required.<br />
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The course will outline a connectivist understanding of educational systems of the future. It will help participants make sense of the transformative impact of technology in teaching and learning over the last decade. The voices calling for reform do so from many perspectives, with some suggesting 'new learners' require different learning models, others suggesting reform is needed due to globalization and increased competition, and still others suggesting technology is the salvation for the shortfalls evident in the system today. While each of these views tell us about the need for change, they overlook the primary reasons why change is required…"
connectivism  stephendownes  georgesiemens  elearning  learning  free  freelearning  deschooling  unschooling  informallearning  mooc  lcproject  pedagogy  education  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Free University of San Francisco [via: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/20bcfree.html via @willrich45]
"aims to make highest level of education available, completely free, to any individual who wants it, regardless of color, creed, age, gender, nationality, religion or immigration status—a university free of money, taught for free…only requirement for membership is a desire to teach &/or a desire to learn.<br />
We believe that the purpose of education is not to turn the student into a better consumer & profit-earner but to help him/her to discover wealth of human culture upon whose shoulders she/he stands. What we share at FUSF is a passionate determination to see restoration of humanity—warm, literate, democratic—to vibrant human life. & in order to achieve this aim we have taken hold of the very hub of our culture, which is education, in order to create a brand new kind of institution, one whose existence makes no sense in current social order, that stands in direct defiance of privatized profit-oriented social engineering centers that pass for unis today.<br />
…we are rebels of knowledge."
the2837university  agitpropproject  lcproject  education  highereducation  sanfrancisco  freeschools  freeuniversities  anarchism  anarchy  democracy  learning  universities  colleges  highered  free  democratic  accessibility  flat  postconsumerism  postmaterialism  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free
"All education is self-education.  Period.  It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop.  We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn.<br />
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Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world.  Take a look at any widely acclaimed scholar, entrepreneur or historical figure you can think of.  Formal education or not, you’ll find that he or she is a product of continuous self-education.<br />
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If you’re interested in learning something new, this article is for you.  Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources I have bookmarked online over the past few years.<br />
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Note that some of the sources overlap between various subjects of education.  Therefore, each has been placed under a specific subject based on the majority focus of the source’s content."
education  learning  online  free  reference  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  via:caterina  glvo  edg  srg  references  opencourseware  opencontent  law  humanities  history  classideas  science  health  lcproject  business  money  compsci  engineering  math  mathematics  english  communication  books  autodidacts  self-education  self-directedlearning  internet  web  openeducation  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
ICAM150/VIS159 | UCSD | winter 2009 [class schedule / readings / lecture notes]
"All readings for this class will be available online at no charge. The readings include articles and chapters from book drafts by the instructor and additional historical or theoretical texts by other authors. The students will be also asked to study the web sites describing particular cultural project, people, and art movements covered in lectures and sections…"<br />
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"In this class we will discuss the relationships between art, culture, and technology by focusing on two historical periods: beginning of the 20th century and the current period."<br />
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[Quotes from syllabus: http://manovich.net/icam150_winter2008/icam150_winter2011syl.html ]
levmanovich  media  history  art  ucsd  free  texts  technology  toread  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Caterina Fake: WikiLeaks and Free at the New Museum
"Pervading the show is this sense of how the 'data' tells us something, but fails to capture the human drama, the story, the suffering, the lived lives behind the info gathered & arranged. Images of people caught on Google Maps "streetview" appear in Jon Rafman's work, Martijn Hendrik shows texts of people responding to video of Saddam Hussein execution; Joel Holmberg asks earnest questions on Yahoo! Answers – all show the gap btwn the impassive data-gathering technology, human inputs & the strange hybrid that is result of those interactions. The final quote in Magid's Becoming Tarden is from Jerzy Kosinski's Cockpit:<br />
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"All that time & trouble, & still the record is a superficial one: I see only how I looked in the fraction of a second when the shutter was open. But there's no trace of the thoughts & emotions that surrounded that moment. When I die & my memories die with me, all that will remain will be 1000s of yellowing photographs & 35mm negatives in my filing cabinets."
art  media  free  news  wikileaks  information  data  emotion  meaning  internet  flickr  googlestreetview  photography  jonrafman  julianassange  2010  caterinafake  experience  perception  feeling  drama  human  suffering  detachment  humandrama  streetview  lostintherecord  colddata  interpretation  jerzykosinski  laurencornell  jillmagid  lisaoppenheim  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
LRB · John Lanchester · Let Us Pay
“The brief history of the internet is dominated by wishful thinking about turning internet traffic into revenue; companies that have managed to do it are vastly outnumbered by those who have learned the cruel new information era twist on ‘if you build it, they will come.’ The modern form of that now runs: ‘if you build it, they may well come, but only as long as it’s free.’ That is why, as Warren Buffett observed, the internet is probably a ‘net negative for capitalists.” [via: http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/2149705267/the-brief-history-of-the-internet-is-dominated-by]
media  journalism  newspapers  internet  future  capitalism  business  money  free  johnlancaster  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
DropMocks
"DropMocks is the easiest way to create and share beautiful image galleries online"
html5  hosting  free  images  galleries  photography  dropmocks  via:robinsloan  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
FreakAngels
"FREAKANGELS is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield"
warrenellis  freakangels  comics  free  online  scifi  steampunk  daily  webcomics  apocalypse  toread  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Open education: if you can do it, do it | FLOSSE Posse
"NYTimes wrote about fathers’ leave in Sweden. The articles ends w/:

"In Sweden I am on right,” Mr. Westerberg said, “but in US, I’m considered Communist.”"

Some days ago David Wiley wrote that w/ open content Open Knowledge Foundation gets it wrong when claiming share-alike licenses are open but non-commercial ones aren’t.

For those who are not familiar w/ open/free content/knowledge discussion, share-alike license has a condition asking people who remix or build upon content to distribute resulting work under same license. The license ensures later works will stay in commons. Wiley wrote:

“When authors adopt share-alike license, they are saying: we value the freedom of content over the freedom of people.”

As an author using share-alike license I see this a bit differently. I value the *freedom of mankind*, the common good, over the freedom of content or individuals.

I think that this is the way most SA people see it: When you are given, you should give back, too."
teemuleinonen  sharealike  communities  freedom  collectivegood  licensing  copyright  sweden  us  polict  individualism  opencontent  open  openknowledgefoundation  commercial  non-commercial  creativecommons  free  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Illuminations: Dynamic Paper
"Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web."
dynamicpaper  graphs  generator  geometry  mathematics  math  free  interactive  worksheets  graphing  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
FrontlineSMS
"FrontlineSMS allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal.
activism  advocacy  ngo  nonprofit  communications  sms  phones  mobile  messaging  socialmedia  software  telecom  text  development  opensource  wireless  communication  ict  free 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Notational Velocity
"NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes.
osx  macosx  mac  simplenote  applications  free  freeware  notetaking  writing 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Knotebooks - Anyone can contribute. Everyone can learn.
"Knotebooks is a supplementary education platform that enables students, teachers and self-learners to effortlessly create and collaborate on customized multimedia physics lessons."
collaboration  physics  science  education  free  learning  multimedia  math  opensource  pedagogy  tcsnmy 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Cacoo - Create diagrams online Real time collaboration
"Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge."
cacoo  collaboration  charts  flowcharts  free  webservice  mindmap  mockup  drawing  communication  diagrams  graphics  onlinetoolkit  wireframes  webdesign  tools  design  webapp 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Fontself [via: http://twitter.com/nicolasnova/status/17717212062]
"Did you ever wish you could send a messages that would reflect you mood or let you express the more creative side of your personality?
fonts  generator  handmade  handwriting  interactive  graphics  typography  type  drawing  free  software  tools  webdesign 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Snibbe App Store
"Mobile apps for iPhone and iPad: interactive art, creativity, communication, and play" [via: http://www.snibbe.com/blog/2010/05/19/art99/ via Ben Cerveny: http://twitter.com/neb/status/17535689512 "Scott Snibbe articulates: we have all been waiting for this day for a long time; here come the art instruments! "]
art  iphone  generative  free  exploratorium  digital  interactive  applications  ipad  artinstruments 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Dekar Free Font | Fontfabric™
"Dekar free font is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos."
free  fonts  typography  typeface 
june 2010 by robertogreco
learningscience.org
"learningscience.org is an organization dedicated to sharing the newer and emerging "learning tools" of science education. Tools such as real-time data collection, simulations, inquiry based lessons, interactive web lessons, micro-worlds, and imaging, among others, can help make teaching science an exciting and engaging endeavor. These tools can help connect students with science, in ways that were impossible just a few years ago. Take a look at a few different types of "learning tools" at this link, Tool Examples. At this point in our project we are highlighting some of the best web resources for science concepts. Although our main emphasis is on students, teachers, and parents, really anyone interested in science education will find the site useful and informative."
science  education  resources  interactive  simulations  chemistry  biology  astronomy  activities  inquiry  teaching  visualization  physics  free 
june 2010 by robertogreco
F.lux: software to make your life better
"Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen? During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.
freeware  lighting  health  sleep  macosx  osx  flux  light  utilities  software  windows  linux  environment  free  via:robinsloan 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Google Font Directory
"The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.
google  fonts  typography  javascript  html5  html  webdev  api  css  design  webdesign  free  type 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Fab@Home - Make Anything | Fab@Home
"Fab@Home will change the way we live. It is a platform of printers and programs which can produce functional 3D objects. It is designed to fit on your desktop and within your budget. Fab@Home is supported by a global, open-source community of professionals and hobbyists, innovating tomorrow, today. Join us, and Make Anything."
fabbing  make  making  3dprinter  fabrication  diy  manufacturing  opensource  print  free  printing  prototyping  hacks  howto 
april 2010 by robertogreco
WikiLeaks
"The Sunshine Press (WikiLeaks) is an non-profit organization funded by human rights campaigners, investigative journalists, technologists and the general public. Through your support we have exposed significant injustice around the world— successfully fighting off over 100 legal attacks in the process. Although our work produces reforms daily and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the 2008 Index on Censorship-Economist Freedom of Expression Award as well as the 2009 Amnesty International New Media Award, these accolades do not pay the bills. Nor can we accept government or corporate funding and maintain our absolute integrity. It is your strong support alone that preserves our continued independence and strength."
censorship  corruption  documents  free  freedom  government  wikileaks  politics  public  leaks  news  information  data 
april 2010 by robertogreco
The Public School
"THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up."
brooklyn  nyc  pedagogy  education  urban  urbanism  teaching  design  culture  art  architecture  alternative  free  collective  courses  unschooling  deschooling  open  learning  lcproject  tcsnmy 
april 2010 by robertogreco
55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects | Tools
"Sound effects are used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. These trick of sound are mostly achieved by combining technology, ingenuity and creativity. Sound effects are important for digital media because an appropriate sound effect can easily resemble a real occurrence for a situation.
free  sound  soundeffects  samples  filmmaking  editing  effects  recording  video  downloads  audio  music  sounds 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Saturation – A beautiful experience with colour
"You like colour? Lickable design? Free? Then you’re gonna love this app. Saturation ties into the Adobe Kuler service, but in an über cool user interface.
iphone  applications  kuler  adobekuler  palettes  color  design  free  saturation 
march 2010 by robertogreco
pblweb - home
"This workshop is intended as a Primer to introduce educators to Project Based Learning - and to the use of free online tools in project based learning."
onlinetoolkit  teaching  projectbasedlearning  1:1  rubrics  e-learning  googleapps  pedagogy  learning  howto  projects  free  tcsnmy  via:cburell 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Going naked - Openism and freedom in academia - Wikiversity
"Academia should be conducted in such a way as to benefit society. This means (among other things) that the processes and products of publicly-funded academics' activities should, by default, be public (i.e., accessible and freely usable). It also means that academics should seek to use and promote tools (such as software) and materials (such as textbooks) which enable students emerging academics to utilise and foster public knowledge. The evolution towards open academia is a cultural challenge because closedness is the norm."
education  academia  public  society  funding  open  free  access  knowledge  accessibility 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Terremoto Chile: Aplicaciones gratuitas para smartphones con información sobre sismos - FayerWayer
"Además de los medios tradicionales, y a causa de que las redes de datos fueron uno de los pocos servicios que lograron mantenerse en funcionamiento luego del primer gran terremoto, destacamos algunas de las aplicaciones con información precisa para nuestros smartphones. Las cuatro aplicaciones son gratuitas, dos para iPhone y dos para Android SO:"
iphone  applications  android  free  earthquakes 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Panic Blog » ShrinkIt 1.1
"ShrinkIt is a simple, small, Panic-internal tool (for Mac OS X Snow Leopard) that will automate the process of stripping needless metadata from PDFs by re-saving them using Apple’s PDF processor. For app resources and icons that aren’t using high-end Illustrator features, this should be lossless — Apple’s PDF code is not compressing anything, just removing cruft. Simply drop a bunch of files (not folders) onto it — such as the contents of your app’s Resources folder — to have it find the PDFs and do its magic. The original files will be renamed with the prefix “_org_” for backup safety. That’s it!"
shrinkit  adobe  mac  osx  optimization  utilities  pdf  freeware  panic  software  applications  macosx  compression  free 
february 2010 by robertogreco
University of the People – The world’s first tuition free online university > Home
"University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition free online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality low-cost global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university level studies within reach of millions of people across the world. With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, the UoPeople student body represents a new wave in global education."
opencourseware  openeducation  teaching  technology  learning  education  e-learning  elearning  online  research  community  open  free  opensource  universities  colleges  universityofthepeople 
february 2010 by robertogreco
BashFlash - A different kind of Flash blocker for Snow Leopard
"BashFlash lets you stop the Flash plug-in dead in its tracks, letting your new-fangled Mac cool down, use less power, and give you more time to do whatever it is you do. Probably blog or tweet or something.
flash  osx  mac  free  utility  applications  safari  plugins  software  freeware  browser  battery  chrome  plugin  macosx  bashflash 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Connect, Write, Self-Publish and Promote Your Book - all in one place. - FastPencil
"FastPencil is book publishing without the pain. The traditional book publishing process can take many months of effort and more money than most writers anticipate. It’s no wonder authors get discouraged.
fastpencil  writing  books  online  collaboration  printing  publishing  free  selfpublishing  tools  ebooks 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Social Media Classroom
"Welcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory. It’s all free, as in both “freedom of speech” and “almost totally free beer.” We invite you to build on what we’ve started to create more free value. The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don’t want to install your own. (See this for an explanation of who “we” are)."
education  learning  technology  internet  teaching  opensource  socialnetworking  socialsoftware  socialmedia  socialmediaclassroom  drupal  schools  classroom  free  media  elearning  e-learning  web2.0  collaboration  tools  blogging  community 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Start your own online School [blog: http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/blog/]
"Redefining Schools Online: Get started within a couple of clicks and create your next generation online school - educating others has never been easier! Teach students, customers & your audience: Supercool School is an all in one education tool that allows you to create live online classes, record them and distribute them virally. Students can join the live sessions, watch recordings and even request classes themselves." [via: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=50836]
education  learning  internet  teaching  online  web  community  onlinelearning  facebook  howto  e-learning  elearning  socialnetworking  free  interactive  sharing  ideas  knowledge  startup  web2.0  lcproject  onlinetoolkit  tcsnmy 
november 2009 by robertogreco
The Blueprints, reference image database, with more than 37000 blueprints, templates, 3/4/5-views and drawings
"Cars (11661), Motorcycles (1765), Trucks (2087), Buses (417), Ships (6584), Trains (588), WW1 Airplanes (358), WW2 Airplanes (1968), Modern Airplanes (4919), Tanks (3455), Weapons (405), Science Fiction (1947), Humans (116), Phones (517), Miscelaeneous (249)"
blueprints  database  3d  archive  drawings  illustration  graphicdesign  graphics  reference  architecture  art  drawing  design  blender  vector  lightwave  cg  stock  models  images  free  via:kottke 
november 2009 by robertogreco
New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education | GOOD
"This is where neo-education steps in—not necessarily as a substitute for a university degree, at least not at this point, but as a necessary filler for the many gaps in today’s higher education, an essential exercise in flexing our inherent human curiosity about the world before it atrophies into the narrow scope of skill and vision that the original liberal arts model aimed to eradicate in the first place. In an age driven by the cross-pollination of ideas, viewpoints, and disciplines, it is only through such indiscriminate curiosity and exploration that we can truly liberalize our collective future."
education  academia  teaching  web  liberalarts  cyberculture  activism  ted  arts  socialmedia  technology  internet  free  change  autodidacts  unschooling  deschooling  curiosity  tcsnmy  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary 
november 2009 by robertogreco
I WANT TO DO THIS ALL DAY - Redefining Learning & Reinventing Education - An Audio Documentary
""I WANT TO DO THIS ALL DAY," an audio documentary about Redefining Learning and Reinventing Education. Premiering in May 2008, the documentary uses interviews from 23 different learning spaces to illuminate the grassroots movement of people and communities taking power over their own education and creating learning environments based on freedom, cooperation and social change." [references here: http://dothisallday.org/resources/]
education  audio  documentary  activism  children  free  schools  alternative  alted  freeschools  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject  freedom  cooperation  socialchange 
october 2009 by robertogreco
SOPHIE:
"Sophie 2.0 is open source software for writing, reading and visualizing rich media documents in an interactive, networked environment. The program emerged from the desire to create an easy-to-use application that would allow authors to combine text, images, video, and sound quickly and simply, but with precision and sophistication. Sophie's users are interested in creating robust, elegant, networked, texts and multimedia works without having programming knowledge or training in the use of more complex and costly tools. such as Flash."
education  opensource  squeak  smalltalk  application  publishing  authoring  media  multimedia  writing  tools  collaboration  free  software  books  ebooks 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Archival Sound Recordings
"Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments: accents and dialects; arts, literature and performance; classical music; environment and nature; jazz and popular music; oral history; sound recording history; world and traditional music"
art  history  music  uk  britishlibrary  library  sounds  recordings  samples  ethnography  multimedia  database  free  audio  sound  online  world  jazz  classical  environment  nature  arts  literature  poetry  accents  spokenword  media  archives  repository  tcsnmy  libraries 
september 2009 by robertogreco
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