Re: [school-discuss] Looking for an international lecturer on free software in schools

[Thomas Templin <lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 01 April 2005 15:51, CPE-SAT (German Bustos) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is German Bustos, I'm contractor for Computadores para
> Educar, a Colombian government program which has brought
> computers for thousands of Colombian public schools since 2001,
> this program offers also teacher’s training in the use of
> computers in classes. All these computers are running MS Windows,
> but there is a growing interest in free software. Packages like
> OpenOffice.org and Mozilla are been tested to be used on those
> machines.
>
> A national meeting of teachers using computers will take place at
> June 28th, 29th and 30th in Bogotá, it is expected that at least
> 500 teachers from all the country would participate y that
> meeting.
>
> We are looking for an international lecturer who can teach
> Colombian educators how to use free software in their classes and
> schools, what are the advantages of this kind of software
> specifically for education. We have special interest in the use
> of computer technologies in teaching subjects like math, language
> and science.
>
> We are also contacting national groups that promote free software
> to participate in the meeting.
>
> Can you please help me to find such a lecturer?
May be Matthias Stuermer, matthias@xxxxxxxxxxx , from Bern may be an 
interesting contact.
Matthias is doing his community service / alternative service in 
Peru, Lima. 
http://stuermer.ch/ServicioCivil.html

cite:
La descripción del proyecto cervicio civil que se ejecutará del 16 
de marzo hasta el 28 de junio en Lima y que se trata bajo otro de 
la introducción de Skolelinux al instituto superior Diego Thomson
http://stuermer.ch/dcs/users/1/proyectocerviciocivil.pdf

Regards,
Thomas

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