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 -- Richard Smedley, richard@sc.lug.org.uk Sustainable IT Consultant http://m6-it.org/ ``Software Freedom for the Voluntary Sector'' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org