Hi Louis,
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Hi Michael,
On 1/9/06 4:24 PM Michael Devenish wrote:
Hi,
For anyone interested, the British Educational Communications and
Technology Agency (BECTA) has announced a couple of reviews of UK
schools' use of ICT. One review is a value for money review of
Microsoft's educational licensing programme
I saw!
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/4114
and another review is looking at ways of improving home ICT access for
school pupils. This review will analyse the costs of using applications
when working on the same document either at school or at home. "It will
also address compatibility issues when a home computer runs different
office productivity products to those used at school."
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/4115
This of course is an opportunity for OOo... And merits follow up. Can
you suggest some options?
I'm intending to create a CD based on TheOpenCD <
http://www.theopencd.org > but with updated versions of the software
(e.g. OOo 2.0.1 and final versions of firefox and thunderbird instead of
release candidates that are on the current version of theOpenCD) and
give them out at work, as I know some colleagues' partners are school
teachers. Since theOpenCD uses a browser as a means of describing and
installing each software program I'm going to modify the text describing
OOo to include links to the above BECTA news stories, the BECTA document
stating their preferred file formats and the OOo marketing pages for
schools and universities.
Going slightly off-topic, could promoting free software for European
schools be eligible for obtaining EU funding?
From my perspective, what I'd like to do focuses not just on getting
people to use the product but on encouraging students to work on it. I
suppose that's why my focus is in higher ed. But I have also found that
primary and secondary students are more than capable of doing QA, say,
or coming up with creative and enjoyable ways to build something
communally.
Then there is the use issue. As the focus here is on cost, it is easy
;-) Or, at least, easier. Would you have any contacts I can reach? I
think I have some of my own...
Sorry, don't have any contacts other than work colleagues' partners who
are school teachers.
Best
Louis
Regards
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Michael Devenish
Thanks
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Michael Devenish
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