Teachers in the UK are being expected to do less and less work by government. As your package does not fit neatly into the UK national curriculum (i.e. you haven't pre-defined for them what the package does in NC terms), they're not (with some notable exceptions) going to be interested. Given the position of BECTa,they really should take the time to evaluate these packages, but don't. Has anyone had something excepted? My contributions were also turned down. I will be raising the issue with BECTa, but an ex-BECTa employee now employed by RedHat may be of more assistance in this area, as I do not know who to target. Malcolm? I forwarded your exchange to a UK based list that may have people better placed to define gcompris in NC terms. Cheers Chris -----Original Message----- From: Bruno Coudoin To: Schoolforge Sent: 5/29/02 1:31 PM Subject: [school-discuss] Becta feedback I asked BECTA to include gcompris in their database. They refused and I don't understand why. Could somebody explain me why, below is the trace of our email exchange. Thanks in advance, Bruno. ----------------- Dear Bruno, Many thanks for your recent message regarding an entry on the Becta Educational Software Database. In order to meet the criteria of the Becta Educational Software Database, we do ask that any materials referenced through the service are not just relevant to subjects studied in the UK, but that they are also appropriate for the English National Curriculum. Therefore unfortunately we are unable to include this product on BESD. Regards Becta Educational Sofware Database Team
-----Original Message----- From: Bruno Coudoin [SMTP:bruno.coudoin@free.fr] Sent: 28 May 2002 14:07 To: besd Subject: RE: gcompris proposal
I am french and not a teacher neither part of the french
education
system so I can't give you any cross reference between gcompris
and
the British Curiculum. What I can tell you is that in france, gcompris is used in school for what is called Cycle 2 which is about 5, 6 and 7 years old.
Gcompris includes a large number of activities and you can also check by yourself how suitable it may be for your organisation.
For My official contact information, I am M. Bruno Coudoin, my personal adress is 6: Rue des Amandiers 31700 Blagnac France.
Thanks for your time evaluating gcompris.
Also, please consider that as a free software, gcompris can be improved by your organisation itself or by asking a third party software engineering company with no license cost. You can also ask me for changes and improvement but since it is a non paid project, it can take times.
Best Regards, Bruno.
Le mar 28/05/2002 à 11:53, besd a écrit : > > > Many thanks for your recent enquiry regarding the Becta Educational Software > Database (BESD - http://besd.becta.org.uk). > > BESD aims to provide an independent, comprehensive on-line database for > educational software for the schools market. The database complements the > roles of the National Grid for Learning (NGfL - http://www.ngfl.gov.uk) and > the Virtual Teacher Centre (VTC - http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk), which provide a > signposting service to web based content and resources. BESD currently > provides a mechanism for teachers and support organisations to find > curriculum-based software which can be purchased on disk, CD ROM or DVD ROM, > or downloaded from the web. Subscription on-line services where internet > access is required for use are not included. Can you please inform us what > National Curriculum subjects your software covers, and supply us with full > contact details. > > Regards > > Becta Educational Software Database team > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bruno Coudoin [SMTP:bruno.coudoin@free.fr] > > Sent: 27 May 2002 18:21 > > To: besd@becta.org.uk > > Subject: gcompris proposal > > > > > > I am the author of gcompris (http://ofset.sourceforge.net/gcompris) > > > > This is a freeware education application (Under the GPL License). > > > > Please, consider including it in your database. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Bruno. > > > > >