cd3wd.com/CD3WD/index.htm [how-to on many subjects];

WEBSITES:
Laptops [free] for schools: classmatepc.com; http://laptop.org; Latest XO news: .olpcnews.com; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7119160.stm; http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Status_by_Country
http://www.schoolnetafrica.net/index.php
http://www.teachamantofish.org.uk/wherewework.php
School Curriculum [free]: curriki.org
Drupal.com: a free program which allows you (after a rather steep learning curve) to create great websites.
Wordpress.com: (easier learning curve) free program called Wordpress to create our websites.
ECHO: Gardening and farming info. Unusual seed, ag conference. echonet.org
CD3WD 4.0: Over 1000 books, etc for free on appropriate technology, farming, etc. http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/index.htm
www.go-opensource.org/go_open/episode_1/
jajah.com/ Free telephone service worldwide by internet using cellphone or telephone

$100 Un-PC
Feb. 12, 2007- In a humble residential neighborhood in the south Indian city of Chennai, Hema Malini—a quiet 13-year-old girl —switched on the family television and a curious new device called Nova NetTV that was connected to the TV and a keyboard. In a few seconds, the Microsoft Windows logo appeared, and suddenly her TV was transformed into a PC. With her mother looking on proudly, Hema fired up encyclopedia software, checked her e-mail and Googled for a site that offers free versions of Nintendo's Mario Bros. games.
If Rajesh Jain is successful, the NetTV, which hooks up to any television, could be the first in a family of devices that connect the next billion people to the Internet. Jain, 39, is cofounder and chairman of Novatium, the Chennai-based company that makes NetTV and NetPC, a similar product that uses a normal computer monitor. Both are based on cheap cell-phone chips and come without the hard-disk drive, extensive memory and prepackaged software thatadd hundreds of dollars to the cost of regular PCs. Instead, they are little more than a keyboard, a screen and a couple of USB ports—and use a central network server to run software applications and store data. Novatium already sells the NetPC for only $100—just within reach of India's growing middle class—and Jain believes he can soon drive the price down to $70. novatium.com; emergic.org
www.iearn.org - is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world. [many languages in over 100 countries].

links for music editing, painting softwares :
http://www.freebyte.com/music/
Free Music Notation Software
Non-free Music Notation Software
Free online Music lessons
Free educational Music software
Free Software Synthesizers
Non-free Software Synthesizers
Free Sequencers
Free Sound Recorders and Editors
Non-free Music and Sound editors
Free Music Players
MP3 Files online
Free Sound Effects
Free Midi files
Free Sheet Music
Music systems, languages, formats
Music and Audio Search Engines
Other Music-related Sites

http://www.treepad.com/download/#tpbiz
Page contents
Download TreePad Professional for Linux 3.3
Request TreePad X Enterprise Server (multi-user)
Download TreePad Viewer (freeware)
Download exe-eBook Creator (freeware)
Download TreePad Lite for Windows (freeware)
Download TreePad Lite for Linux (freeware)
Download TreePad Asia (freeware)
Download TreePad 2.6.9 (freeware)

http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/index.html
Here a full dictionary with windows and pocket pc for download.

other links for dictionaries:
http://paginas.terra.com.br/arte/alls - Brazilian Portuguese version.
http://www.sweb.cz/ls78/freedict.htm - Czech version (Freewarové Slovníky).
http://home.worldonline.dk/gustaf - Danish version (Ordbog).
http://nl.freelang.net - Dutch version (Woordenboek).
http://www.la-vortaro.net - Esperanto version (La Vortaro).
http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/finnish.html - Finnish version (Sanakirja).
http://fr.freelang.net - French version (Freelang).
http://www.vortaro.hu - Hungarian version (Szótár).
http://www.dejudicibus.it/dizionario - Italian version (Dizionario).
http://es.freelang.net - Spanish version (Diccionario).
http://web.telia.com/~u85724740/index.html - Swedish version (Lexikon).

http://freeware.brothersoft.com/home_education/teaching_and_testing/
E-books
Language
Math
Reference
Science
Teaching and Testing
Hobbies
Kids
Astrology
Health & Nutrition
Writing and Reading
Sports
Translation
Food & Beverage
Calendars

Encyclopedia free online
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001, it currently contains 1,306,351 articles.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page
Dictionary and thesaurus
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Free textbooks and manuals, Humanities and Arts Social Sciences Computing Natural Sciences Miscellaneous
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
over 35 million articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and transcripts at High Beam Research
http://encarta.msn.com/
• Encarta newsletter
• Encarta worldwide
• Free online encyclopedia
• Free online dictionary
• Free online atlas
• Free online thesaurus
• Encarta RSS feeds
http://www.britannica.com/
Encyclopedia Britannica, and dictionary online
http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/
Questia's FREE encyclopedia includes more than 52,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to Questia's premium reference library of more than 67,000 full-text books and 1,500,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Dictionary / Thesaurus
Computing Dictionary
Medical Dictionary
Legal Dictionary
Financial Dictionary
Acronyms
Idioms

Misc:
http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english.htm
http://freeware.intrastar.net/education.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_software
http://www.edu-soft.com/
http://moodypublishing.com/download/educational/free.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/raylec/lettersa.htm
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/freesoftware_page.htm
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/kids/
http://www.rayslearning.com/
http://www.houseplanz.com/free_educational_software.html
http://www77.pair.com/raylec/
http://www.kprobe.com/kprobe/index.htm
http://www.craigresearchlabs.com/cancer.html
http://www.khake.com/page47.html -math

Chemistry softwares

http://users.ugent.be/~tkuppens/chem.shtml
This links here, school, University software,
http://www.anachem.umu.se/cgi-bin/pointer.exe?Software
Here link is for teachers of chemistry
http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/other_info_and_links/oakinfom.html
here this links software for linux, windows
http://www.btinternet.com/~ablumsohn/chemis.htm
here in this links if for general chimestry, the beatiful periodic table, chemistry dictionary and others
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RayLec/chemres.htm
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/lettersounds.htm
http://freeware.intrastar.net/education.htm

for kids
http://kindykip.com/downloads.htm; Coloring Sheets X5, Activity Sheets X5
www.food-force.com game for 8-14 years. English, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Chinese, French, Hungarian,. Most downloaded item on the internet.
http://disney.go.com/playhouse/today/index.html
to educate for kids play games, for all class mates, pre kinder, other....
http://games.funschool.com/
coloring pages: http://www.primarygames.com/print_zone/coloring/abc_book/abc_color.htm
http://www.rayslearning.com/lettersa.htm

Learn Letters
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/learnletters.htm
Download learn letters free educational software. Learn letters makes learning the letters of the alphabet fun and easy, even for children whose fine motor coordination is not yet well developed. fun, educational hands-on learning.

English Listening quizzes: Spelling
http://esl.about.com/library/listening/bllis_beg_spelling.htm
This is educational site, you will hear words being spelled from the sentences.

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/megamaps.htm
http://www.gold-software.com/education18.html
http://www.educational-freeware.com/freeware/
http://homeschoolinformation.com/Resources/educational_freeware.htm
www.schoolexpress.com
http://www.magickeys.com/books/
http://raspberry.forest.net/FMPro?-db=whootie.fp5&-lay=weblay&-format=/w...
(this one has advertising pop-ups, so but has many classics for children) http://www.classicreader.com/toc.php/sid.3/

(a learn to read site for young children) http://www.starfall.com/

(various children's activities and articles about the natural world from National Geographic) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

educational softwares games
Skills, puzzles, games, others for a kids for world champions football 2006 for download:
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/e/
http://www.a2zwaresolutions.com/
http://www.senteacher.org/main/files.php
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/software for words
http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/_agefreeware-index.html
250 software for 2 to 5 years old http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/kids/draw.html for drawing
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.openoffice.org
1. Openoffice is a complete suite. Has the same capabilities as MS Office (word , excel , power point and access )
Should be of value for both teachers and students. Is downloadable from the website and is available in both Linux and Windows compatible variants.
2. Linux ( as an alternative for windows )
There are several different versions of Linux to be downloaded for free ---> it has more capabilities than windows and is lately as user friendly as windows.

Free word processing software
AbiWord - Word processor from the AbiSource Project desktop suite
AbiWord is a full featured word processor. Current features include:
basic character formatting
paragraph alignment
spell-check
import of Word97 and RTF documents
export to RTF, Text. HTML, and LaTeX formats
interactive ruler and tabs
styles
unlimited undo/redo
multiple column control
widow/orphan control
find/replace
images
Obtaining
Web page http://www.abisource.com/

Free CDs and DVDs:
www.cd3wd.com free CD of books or download free.
http://www.smart-estore.com/default.asp?storeid=355980&c=WGSN001????
free ebooks, CDs and software
http://www.gutenberg.com/Collections.htm
Project Gutenberg Consortia Center has an extensive collection of downloadable ebooks of classical literature, children’s books, poetry collection and even historical movie clips. Please visit also the link below if you can request a free CD or DVD of their collection and they will ship it to you for FREE.
http://www.gutenberg.org/cdproject/
For free software, please visit Ubuntu Linux at http://www.ubuntu.com/

You can download Ubuntu or request for FREE CDs. The free CD already has Open Office and other free softwares. Ubuntu is comparable to Windows (if not better) and the good thing is it\'s free.
Open course ware
Free-ed.net explains the function of open course ware: "
YOU are the key figure in this system ... not teachers or school administrators. Your job is to learn as much as you can and apply it the best you can ..." We made a selection of top sites. For many subjects you can find here the information you need to study the subject you want. This way we also hope to help the students of Ghana with their study.
Site Description
Free ed-net
Complete courses and tutorials for more than 120 different vocational and academic disciplines.
Study programs for homeschooling, advanced college prep, GED, technical careers, lifelong learning, and much, much more.

M.I.T.
M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institure of Technology) started with putting all their University courses on the Net. All subjects, description of courses and used resources. When you have broadband connection it is even possible to attend classes by watching the video registration.

IBERY
Directory of open course ware - Lecture notes, tutorial material, slides, handouts, demonstrations, exams, quizzes etc.- for teaching, learning, course preparation and research. Lots of clicking, loads of materials.
IT Tutorials
IT tutorials Making websites, programming in Java, it is on this site of Sean Greasley. Very comprehensive because of the combination of sound and good visualisation.
e-books
Top sites for educational e- books and lesson materials, all free accesible. Especially students and teachers in Ghana and other developing countries have now more opportunities to study. We have gathered links for all levels of study. Most of the links however are for secondary education and teacher training. For schools in Ghana without Internet connection, OOG can put e-books on a CD ROM. If you are interested please contact OOG.
Site Description Remark
Textbook revolution
Textbook revolution is the web’s source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value.
At Textbook Revolution, you’ll find links to textbooks and select educational resources of all kinds. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable only online as e-books. Most books are aimed at undergraduates, but there are at least a few resources at every level, from kindergarten to post-doc. All of the books are offered for free by their respective copyright holders for online viewing. Beyond that, each book is as individual as the author behind it.
All levels, all subjects, amazing collection

Gutenberg Online catalog
Gutenberg's online catalog has almost twenty thousand of books available on line in many different languages. Very interesting for study of English language. All levels, Different languages
Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a special book edition. It has a collection of open-content text books in many languages that anyone can edit. Volunteers have written over 12000 books and the number is growing. Books on all educational subjects. All levels, Different languages
African Study Center
African Study Center offers lesson plans for Kindergarten to year 12 and for students of teacher training colleges. Kindergarten - Primary Education
Open Educational Resources
Gateway to many educational resources on all subjects of secondary education. In English, French, Spanish. Many contributions from Africa. Secondary education
eGranary Digital library
Delivering digital teaching materials to African scholars. The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access.
Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE the partner institutions in developing countries, eGranary delivers millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost. Many African Universities have implemented this on their local network. University level, you have to register to make use of the service.
ICDL
Reading with the young ones - ICDL copied existing books and put themon line. Books for young and old ones in many languages. Classic old books and modern ones, wonderful illustrated. Reading - Kindergarten - Primary Education
IT programming books
(This site can be useful for SSS students or students at tertiary level to get skilled in programming. ICT, Secondary, Vocational Education

Science
Curiousity is the basic of all learning. Science is not just a subect but it is an important method to encourage the natural curiosity of children.
On this page you will find many ideas of Arvind Gupta from India. The ideas are helpful for all teachers who are looking for ways to make learning fun. How? By helping children to make explorations and discoveries on their own, just by playing games.
If you want practical examples how to do make learning fun go to this site: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/
Science for primary, secondary education and teacher-training Science on CD ROM- Arvind Gupta's favorite library
Arvind Gupta is a scientist and a teacher who likes to play with self made toys. What do you need to teach science? Books? Not in the first place! Expensive teaching aids? No, just waste materials and a good idea how to use it. Arvind Gupta's Toys will help you to make your own teaching aids. To get the idea we give here a few examples. To start with take a look at the first toy the Abacus.
'Ten little fingers' is the title of a publication from Mr. Arvind Gupta. It is just one of the many fantastic materials for science. But you can find also children books, books on education All the publications have in common that the authors believe in children's nature to discover their world all by themselves. Especially in Ghana and other developing countries most people have no acces to the Internet. That is why OOG made a CD ROM with all the files of Arvind Gupta's site. The CD ROM is called Arvind Gupta's favorite library.
Are you living in Ghana or another developing country? Are you working for developing countries? Than you can send OOG a message that you want that CD for free. Just click here to order the CD ROM.
OOG voor Ghana will send the CD ROM 'Arvind Gupta's favorite library'to you, free of charge. (If you can pay the stamp it will help us. Please pay 5 Euro or US dollar.
Two other examples you can find on Arvind Gupta's site;
Water - There are many things to dicover with water. You just have to think of the right kind of questions. This guide of Jos Elstgeest will help you.
Sticks - Sticks is all you need to do a number of experiments that are useful in maths and science. Don't think this is only for Kindergarten, you can do it as well with students from Secondary School.
Science books for High school
In South Africa teachers and students started an interesting project. They published science books. According to the authors it should be easy to make it fit in a syllabus. Maybe Ghana teachers or students can make it work for the WAEC syllabus?

You can pay by using our Bank. See about us, or click on one of the donation buttons on the left side of this screen.
If you want more information, just send a mail to info@oogvoorghana.org
Of course we also like to get some feed-back about this CD ROM. You always can send your experience and ideas to info@oogvoorghana

IT lessons
Download the lessons for the introduction of IT to students who had no access to computers.
________________________________________
On this page you can download lessons for two school years.
Every school year has two periods. In each period you will find 6 to 10 lesson units. There are two courses - year 1 and year 2.
Content of each lesson: Objectives, Content, Teacher/ Student activity Time schedule
You can download all lessons in one zip file here.
© The materials were developed and have been tried out by two teachers:Mr. Roland Katsekpor, IT co-ordinator at Bisco school, Tamale and Mr. Lex Hogenbosch, chairman of Oog and teaching IT in Ghana from 2002 - 2004.
________________________________________
Year 1 Period 1 First computer steps Year 2 Period 1 Internet
Unit 0 Lesson plan year 1 period 1 Overview
Unit 0 Overview of year 2 period 1

Unit 1 Making acquaintance - function of a computer
Unit 1 Introduction to Internet

Unit 2 Names and functions of a computer system Switch on / off Unit 2 Making home page in Word

Unit 3 Windows terminology, basic mouse skills
Unit 3 Assessment home page

Unit 4 Working with two Window progam screens
Unit 4 Finding information

Unit 5 Mouse skills, Windows training
Unit 5 Email

Unit 6 More mouse skills with Paint
Unit 6 On line preparation

Unit 7 Quiz first period
Unit 7 On line; assessment

Year 1 Period 2 Writing text, drawing picture Year 2 Period 2 Database
Unit 0 Lesson plan year 1 period 2 Overview
Unit 0 Overview year 2 period 2

Unit 1 Keyboard and typing tutor
Unit 1 Introduction database

Unit 2 Introduction to word processing
Unit 2 Database unit 2

Unit 3 Type, save, edit text
Unit 3 Database unit 3

Unit 4 Open text, highlighting, spelling checker, simple formatting Unit 4 Database unit 4

Unit 5 More format commands: colour, alignment, insert, format picture Unit 5 Database unit 5

Unit 6 More mouse skills with Paint
Unit 6 Assessment Database

Unit 7 Computer terms, main hardware abbreviations
Additional Word list assignment

Unit 8 Printing documents, preview and view commands

http://www.irfanview.com/ IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.download.com
1. HTTrack Website Copier - Download a Web site to a local directory for offline browsing. -
2. http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?hl=en&gl=us&utm_campa...
3. http://www.download.com/Teaching-Tools/3150-2051_4-0.html?tag=dir--Reall... 3 Improve your reading speed.

http://www.SoftwareEducation.co.nz
http://www.teach-ict.com
http://www.skoool.co.uk
http://www.woodlandsjunior.co.uk
http://www.learnalberta.ca

http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/episode_1/

ALISON is a FREE learning resource of interactive certification-based learning. ALISON stands for Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online. The learning is provided free of charge to individual learners. The mission of ALISON is to enable anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for FREE. Through ALISON, the cost-barrier to learning can be removed. Link: http:alison.com
Free High School Science Texts
FHSST is a project that aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners in South Africa. The project was initiated by young South African scientists, and now brings together scientists from around the world who are willing to contribute to the writing of the books.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FHSST_Physics

Ken Hargesheimer, minifarms@gmail.com

Teach_A_Man_To_Fish_School.pdf