On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 09:20, Phil Driscoll wrote:

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http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/comm_invest/ogp/lessons/lessonsub.html Are there any UK teachers on the list who have the time/inclination to map

On Friday 18 April 2003 8:21 am, Paul Taylor wrote: these lessons (or a subset) against our curriculum requirements? I'm sure that Sun would be happy to include an extra column in the table!

Cheers -- Phil Driscoll

We could do with a Wiki style development project to pull together open source content to cover the national curriculum drawing on sources like the Sun materials and anything else anyone wants to contribute. -- ian

On Friday 18 Apr 2003 8:21 am, Dave Williams wrote:

Hi Paul

Thanks for the link - I for one had not seen it and I'm curious as to how you found out about it. I think the sun site is very difficult to navigate.

I attended a session called "Train the Trainers" a while back which was organised by Pebble Rock (www.pebblerock.co.uk) who are the official UK distributor of Star Office. The director of Pebble Rock, Peter Stuart ( a sometime sleeper on this site I believe) , was trying to get a UK specific site off the ground and I haven't contacted him lately so don't know the status. I think it would be a good idea. I have most of my teaching material (KS3-5 ICT) dual mapped to Doze and Star Office/OOo and would be happy to get the ball rolling but couldn't speak for other subject areas. It is my suspicion that most of the people on this list and the OSE movement in general are from ICT or Science so we would need some wider support to get material from other subject areas. I had talked with Peter about writing a series of worksheets to enable the use of OOo to write the AS ICT03/AVCE Unit 3 project (using either Write or Calc.) which I will do eventually. I am also about to write a series of worksheets for my Year 10 ICT group for Unit 2 (Handling Information) so that they can use phpMyAdmin to make a database rather than Access. It is not really my forte and I am still a novice with MySQL but it should be okay for year 10. Unlike the AS specifications, the GNVQ does not pre-specify Access to create the material. Paul

Dave Williams

On 18 Apr, Paul Taylor wrote:

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Hi all:

I'm sure everyone has seen this at some time and apologies if it is mentioned elsewhere but I think this is a useful selling point for OOo and related software which would enable teachers to quickly pick up and run with open source.

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/comm_invest/ogp/lessons/lessonsub.html

Paul