Free and Open Source educational Mac software

Open Thinkering Education

If your school has been forward-thinking enough and sensible to go with Macs for at least of its provision, you may have blown the budget on hardware. Never fear, however, as a fantastic site by the name of The Free Mac Classroom can point you towards some free and some Open Source software which should satisfy.

There’s a number of programs that I use fairly regularly on there for which I can vouch, including (in no particular order):

  • NeoOffice (an OS X port of OpenOffice)
  • Image Well (a lightweight and easy-to-use image editor)
  • NVU (web page editor)
  • FreeMind (mind-mapping software)
  • GIMPshop (a Photoshop replacement)
  • Audacity (sound editor)
  • VLC (multi-purpose, flexible media player)

If you use a Mac, even at home rather than at school, I strongly suggest you check it out!