Re: [school-discuss] [Fwd: Textbooks on OpenOffice.org]

[Mathiew Greenway <mattg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The fact that OpenOffice.org is a product name and a web site creates
confusion.

The proper wording in this case should have been
Books about OpenOffice.org have been published and are available at
http://www.visibooks.com

I went to visibooks and these books are for sale as any other text book
would be. They look like a great text and as far as I have seen it is the
first text created for OpenOffice.org products.

This is a very good sign for the future of education. I personally will now
be able to get away from MS products.

Mathiew E. Greenway
Technology Specialist

The American International School in Genoa
Via Quarto, 13-c
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On 3/30/06 10:04 AM, "Malc" <malcdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Good news, but where are they? A hyperlink would help.
> 
> Malc
> 
> --- Doug Loss <drloss@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:  Textbooks on OpenOffice.org
>> Date:  Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:39:34 -0500
>> From:  Chris Charuhas <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To:  <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Visibooks has published the world's first school textbooks on
>> OpenOffice.org. Our press release is below. Let me know if you have
>> any
>> questions, and best regards,
>> 
>> Chris Charuhas
>> Visibooks
>> www.visibooks.com
>> 
>> -----------------------------
>> 
>> World's First Textbooks on OpenOffice.org Published
>> Visibooks publishes new illustration-based textbooks on
>> OpenOffice.org 
>> 
>> Frederick, MD, March 29, 2006 - Visibooks, LLC, a publisher of
>> illustration-based computer class textbooks, has published the first
>> school
>> textbooks on OpenOffice.org.
>> 
>> An increasing number of schools in the U.S. and worldwide are using
>> and
>> teaching OpenOffice.org, a free, open-source suite of word
>> processing,
>> presentation, spreadsheet, and database programs. To serve these
>> schools,
>> Visibooks has published the first series of textbooks that help
>> students
>> learn OpenOffice.org programs.
>> 
>> Visibooks has published four new textbooks on the programs that make
>> up the
>> OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite: Base, Calc, Impress, and Writer. The
>> titles
>> are The Visibooks Guide to Base 2.0, The Visibooks Guide to Calc 2.0,
>> The
>> Visibooks Guide to Impress 2.0, and The Visibooks Guide to Writer
>> 2.0.
>> 
>> These new textbooks are based on pictures, not words. Large
>> screenshots show
>> students what to do, while short instructions walk them through
>> tasks. A
>> typical computer class textbook contains over 50,000 words, but
>> Visibooks'
>> textbooks on OpenOffice.org contain only around five thousand.
>> 
>> Visibooks, LLC, based in Frederick, MD, publishes illustration-based
>> computer class textbooks. Visibooks textbooks are sold and licensed
>> to
>> schools and corporations worldwide at www.visibooks.com.
>> 
>>  
>> For more information, contact:
>> 
>> Chris Charuhas
>> Visibooks, LLC
>> (301) 560-4611
>> chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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