4/1/2023 0 Comments Neooffice image editingThis afternoon I helped my son take some photographs and create a header banner for his new website, “String and Me: String Figures and How To Make Them.” We used SeaShore, which is a Mac OS X version of the open source GIMP photo editor. ![]() ![]() The more I use open source software tools, like NeoOffice, SeaShore, and Audacity, the more I become convinced these programs should be ubiquitous computing staples on every school computer. I think doubters should make time to create a full presentation in an open source alternative to Microsoft Office to see for themselves if their doubts are justified. I know there are many school officials who continue to question the value and power of open source productivity software suites like OpenOffice. I used NeoOffice for the first time in earnest (not just playing with it, but creating an actual 80+ slide presentation) about a month ago when I shared a presentation on social networking and Internet Safety for the Oklahoma Library Association. ![]() I have had VERY positive experiences this past week with both NeoOffice (the Macintosh OS X port of OpenOffice) and SeaShore (a variant of the open source GIMP photo editor for Mac OS X which does not require X11.) For both of my presentations Saturday for the 2008 Survive and Thrive Single Moms conference in Edmond, Oklahoma, ( Internet Safety and Digital Storytelling with VoiceThread) I used NeoOffice to create my presentation slides.
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