Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (171 mails)

[Paul Hornshaw <paul.hornshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:36, garry saddington wrote:
> We use Open Source almost exclusively to teach ICT and I have the idea that an 
> alternative Open Source National Curriculum would be a good thing, what do 
> others feel?
> regards
> garry
> 

Well, after years of gentle OSS nagging my boss has OOo for Windows on
the curriculum network and we use it too (well, some of us do).  He's
very keen on finding an Access-style db front end too, any ideas?

And later this year we're going to be rolling out dual boots in our VIth
form's IT room. Sadly, I'm moving on in the New Year so I won't be there
to see it :-( But on a positive note at least I can feel that my
evangelical work hasn't been wasted; the teks love the network tools
that ship as standard with most shrink-wrapped distros and they adore
the steadiness of unison as disk-syncher, and I have usde SuSE in
teaching Unit 4 and Unit 7 of the ICT AVCE for three sets of VIth
formers now  - most have loved it and some have binned MS completely.

So it does show that constant dripping does wear the stone down.  :-)

I wonder what it's going to be like teaching ICT in New Zealand?  Any
Kiwis posting here care to email me off the list?  LOL  Am I going to
find a more receptive audience or is back to the leaky tap?

PS anyone wanna buy me house?