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Using OpenOffice.org to Teach

OpenOffice.org can be a great teaching tools if you know what to use. The OpenOffice.org development community has extend OpenOffice.org to make it a great tool to run fun activities. OpenOffice.org just as other programs like Firefox have extensions to costumize and extend the capabilities of the software.

OxygenOffice is a most have


OxygenOfficeWhen you get OpenOffice.org usually it doesn't have many templates or clipart. Oxygenoffice is a great extension to complement your OpenOffice.org setup. Is also a most have to spike up your presentations using the large family of cliparts that oxygenoffice has.

This Extension contains parts of OxygenOffice Project. This project creates and collects templates, galleries and other useful extras for OpenOffice.org and release them as easy-to-install Extension packages. Also you can download OxygenOffice Professional product which is a bundled Openoffice.org installer with all available extras.

OpenCards - Free flashcards for Impress

OpencardsFlashcards is a most have if you are teaching younger children or if languages and vocabulary is on your area of teaching. OpenCards can be a great tool to make your teaching very easy and interactive. Also since is digital you can generate plenty of flashcards at a very easy and rapid way.

OpenCards allows to use all your existing Impress-presentations as flashcard-sets without any conversion. To learn more without creating cards on your own, flashcard-files shared by other users can be downloaded from the OpenCards-flashcards-repository at http://wiki.opencards.info/ .

EToK - eTraining Operating Kit

EToK is a full open source, web 2.0 training operating kit environment. Is a program to create eTraining projects or Web based training. eTOK exports out of OOo-Writer documents an eTOK-project consisting out of HTML-pages with JavaScript, that can be browsed like a printed book, enriched with Web 2.0 technologies. Different kinds of quizzes and tests provide rich interactivity. You can watch the manuals available at their website in English or German.

AutoText - Emoticons


Love them or hate them, if you are writting for younger generation, and you want to capture their attention. This extension will definetly help you. Nothing much to say here except you got a real wide range of emoticons. Enjoy.

WriterTools

Writer toolsThis is an awesome extension, is a proof of what can extensions do and creative ways to make your Textprocessing actually do more things. Is a suite of features and games. Is great to learn how to program this extensions since they actually well documented. It includes:
  • Lookup Tool allows you to look up the currently selected word in several online references, including Cambridge Dictionaries, WordNet, and Google Define.
  • Google Translate allows users to quickly translate selected text fragments between different languages using the Google Translate service.
  • Show on the Map allows you to select a city, a street name, or a post code and map it using Google Maps.
  • Email Backup can be used to quickly send a backup copy of the currently opened document to a specified email address.
  • Multi-format Backup macro saves the currently opened Writer document in the Word, RTF, and TXT formats. The backup files are stored in a separate folder with a date stamp. On Linux, the macro also archives the resulting folder using the tar utility. On Windows, there is an option to use the 7-zip compression tool.
  • Remote Backup allows you to quickly save a backup copy of the current document on an FTP server.
  • Wikify Word tool links a selected word or text fragment in the current document to a Writer document, which is created on the fly. For example, if the word “Monkey” is selected, the macro automatically links it to the created on the fly Monkey.odt document.
And many more, so for all these, check this extension out.

All these extensions can be found at the OpenOffice.org Extension website. They are always putting more so I am sure you will find one that I miss putting here. If that's the case please come back and comment on it so i can check it out.
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