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Re: [opensuse-edu] Half-way houses (so to speak)
- From: Richard Smedley <smedley358@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:15:07 +0000
- Message-id: <1166559307.4701.160.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello Roger,
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:11 +0000, Roger wrote:
> I migrated to Linux quite a while ago - and while it isn't perfect, I
> like it far better than 'Doze.
>
> But now I'm doing a PGCE, which involves teaching practice in M$
> committed schools...
>
> What does anyone know about software, etc. that might help me to
> co-exist with that, without going entirely over to the M$ problem.
[snip]
While I'm sure this list will prove as useful as it did under
its last incarnation [thanks once again to everyone who helped
me last April with that article :o] - you should also get
yourself signed up to schoolforge.org.uk, the other main
list for Free Software in UK schools. :-)
To answer your specific questions in the round, you are not
going to win every round instantly - look at all the
problems caused by non-free software in your school, then
see where you can most easily make the biggest change.
In a school with no Free Software awareness theIngots.org
can be a good intro, as can a chance to introduce Moodle
when the school realises it needs a VLE. Open Document
Format and interoperability seem to be steadfastly ignored
at the moment [in most schools], but standards are always
worth a mention.
Are you aware of this?
http://www.openschoolsalliance.org/
The Early Day Motion now has 92 signatures from MPs
wanting to know why there isn't more Free Software
in schools :-)
- Richard
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Richard Smedley, richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sustainable IT Consultant
http://m6-it.org/ ``Software Freedom for the Voluntary Sector''
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On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:11 +0000, Roger wrote:
> I migrated to Linux quite a while ago - and while it isn't perfect, I
> like it far better than 'Doze.
>
> But now I'm doing a PGCE, which involves teaching practice in M$
> committed schools...
>
> What does anyone know about software, etc. that might help me to
> co-exist with that, without going entirely over to the M$ problem.
[snip]
While I'm sure this list will prove as useful as it did under
its last incarnation [thanks once again to everyone who helped
me last April with that article :o] - you should also get
yourself signed up to schoolforge.org.uk, the other main
list for Free Software in UK schools. :-)
To answer your specific questions in the round, you are not
going to win every round instantly - look at all the
problems caused by non-free software in your school, then
see where you can most easily make the biggest change.
In a school with no Free Software awareness theIngots.org
can be a good intro, as can a chance to introduce Moodle
when the school realises it needs a VLE. Open Document
Format and interoperability seem to be steadfastly ignored
at the moment [in most schools], but standards are always
worth a mention.
Are you aware of this?
http://www.openschoolsalliance.org/
The Early Day Motion now has 92 signatures from MPs
wanting to know why there isn't more Free Software
in schools :-)
- Richard
--
Richard Smedley, richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sustainable IT Consultant
http://m6-it.org/ ``Software Freedom for the Voluntary Sector''
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