A first list of free & inexpensive Windows softwares for schools

SCIENCE:

Neural Networking:
Bug Brain: http://www.biologic.com.au/bugbrain - Neural networking for kids & adults.

Astronomy:
Celestia: http://www.shatters.net/celestia
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net
http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/planets

Chemistry:
Free:
MarvinSketch: http://www.chemaxon.com/marvin
ACD/ChemSketch: http://www.acdlabs.com/download/chemsk.html
ACD/Structure Drawing Applet (SDA): http://www.acdlabs.com/products/java/sda/
Orbitals: http://www.apsidium.com/
ACD - other: http://daugerresearch.com/orbitals/index.shtml

MULTIMEDIA:
Media Players:
A suite of free media players that don't do user profiling:
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm

Anti-Virus:
Free:
ClamWin: http://www.clamwin.org (no real-time scanner)

Pay-ware (inexpensive):
F-Prot: http://www.f-prot.com ($3/seat or less, easy school discount, and works better on older machines than Symantec/Norton or McAphee which are total pigs )... F-Prot's only minus is that there's a special set of tweaks that a sysadmin would have to set up on Win2K/WinXP -- I have a special set-up script that I used as part of the set-up procedure.

Anti-Spyware:
Free:
SpyBot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/

Office:

Abiword: http://www.abiword.org (simple word processor)
Gnumeric: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric (spreadsheet)
Gnome Office: http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office (Light-weight word processor & speadsheet)

OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org ( full office suite )

Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/ ( desk top publishing )

PDF Creator (prints to PDF): http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator

FreeMind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Screenshots ( mind-mapping software )

Nvu: http://www.nvu.com ( web page design )

Web Page Editing:
Nvu: http://www.nvu.com ( web page design )
OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org ( full office suite )

Website copier:
HT-Track http://www.httrack.com

Math:
Math - Free:

Graph Paper Printer (free):
http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/GPPinfo

A good, interactive, algebra tutorial (free):
http://www.algebasics.com/

Geometry (free):
http://www.mit.edu/~ibaran/kseg.html
Algebra/Trig/Calc, etc. - A Linux-oriented list, but many are on Windows
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html#9 ... of particular note,
KBruch, Kpercentage, TuxMath,Gperiodic, Kalzium Gcompris and Childsplay ...

Shodor http://www.shodor.org is a great mathematics-devoted educ. website
http://geometrygames.org/CurvedSpaces/index.html
http://geometrygames.org/ESoS/index.html
http://geometrygames.org/KaleidoTile/index.html

Math Payware - inexpensive
Math-aid http://www.mathaid.com

Geometer's Sketchpad http://www.keypress.com/sketchpad/
http://mathforum.org/sketchpad/sketchpad.html
http://www.knowplay.com/math/geometers-sketchpad.html
http://www.knowplay.com/math/visu

Math Payware - not so inexpensive...
Maple http://www.maplesoft.com

Paid website online site:
First-in-Math
http://www.24game.com/t-ProductCatalog.aspx
http://www.24game.com/s-5-.aspx

Graphics:
Free:
The GIMP: http://www.gimp.org ( like Photoshop, but free )

Photo Filter: http://www.photofiltre.com/ ( Nice photo manip.
program )

Photomosaic:
http://photofiltre.free.fr/utilitaires/photomosaique_en.htm ( Make a
mosaic using Photo Filter )

Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org ( 2-D line-draw vector-based
illustration program )

Sodipodi: http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sodipodi/ ( like Inkscape )

The Rasterbator: http://arje.net/rasterbator ( makes
billboard-sized printouts of digital graphics )

Other: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/imagehelpersfreewin/

2-D Modeling/Animation:
Free:
LiveSwif: http://www.liveswif.net

http://downloads.zdnet.com/download.aspx?&kw=flash+animation&docid=22...

http://www.download.com/Liveswif/3000-2068_4-10502700.html?tag=pdp_prod

Payware, inexpensive:
Swish: http://www.swish.com - very good alternative to Flash
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,18857,00.asp

3-D Modeling/Animation:
Free:
Blender http://www.blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html

Maya Free version:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7639525

Photogrammetry -- semi-free trial versions

iModeller 3D Web Demo (trial version) http://www.imodeller.com/en/
http://www.imodeller.com/en/products/?download

Photo Modeler (trial version)
http://www.photomodeler.com/demo01.html
Other:
Aikido
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PeterBalch/PRB00035.htm

Presentation (screen capture)
Wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink
DemoStudio: http://demostudio.sourceforge.net

Video Editing (non-linear)
Avidemux http://www.avidemux.org (open source)
Jahshaka: http://www.jahshaka.org (open source)

Zwei Stein http://www.thugsatbay.com/zweistein (free)
Avid Free Version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avid_Free_DV (free trialware, educational use OK, limited functionality but not crippled )

Zip/Compression:
Izarc: http://www.izarc.org
7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org

Logic / Programming:
Free:
Python - a better teaching computer language than other (commercial) programming languages, but it's totally FREE http://www.python.org/
Python 3-D animation / physics programming:
http://www.vpython.org/vpythonprog.htm
Programming environments (IDEs):
(under review....)


Content Filtering / CIPA conformance (Porn Blocking)
Free:
Naomi http://www.radiance.m6.net/index.html - (free, but crashes some browsers)
ICRA: http://www.icra.org ( free, but relies on voluntary tags, has other issues )

Inexpensive payware:
K9 Web Protection: http://www.k9webprotection.com - $20/seat for non-profits, schools & gov't institutions with more than 6 seats. Works well. Free for home use.
FilterGate: http://www.filtergate.com - $281/year site license. Needs review.

Other:
http://www.srdasnew.com/internet_filter.html
Filtering appliance for whole school:
http://www.comsift.com/
Proxy filtering service for whole school:
http://www.christianpurity.com/mandatory.htm
This service may also provide proxying, would have to ask:
http://www.christianbroadband.com

Australia's gov't initiative - need to check back on progress:
http://www.netalert.net.au/03642-Technology-Toolbox.asp
http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Censor/cens2.html#ff
http://news.com.com/Australia+to+give+away+porn-filtering+software/21...