Re: [school-discuss] Our District's Tech Conference

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From: Jim Jütte <jimjutte@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:33:20 -0800 (PST)

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For us here it is a question of dependability, ease of installation, maintenance and use... Not exactly a tall order, but if you think about what it would take for a non-technical person to do all of this with OS tools vs. Windows or Mac software... really not a competition. Unfortunately I can't really prove that either because when I think back to systems I am familiar with, the companies maintained them. I'm referring to hospital information management systems... pretty beefy software and hospitals either needed teams to run this and/or had the vendors provide support in addition to this.

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Subject: [school-discuss] Our District's Tech Conference

I was checking out our school district's keynote speakers for their 2012 Tech Conference. One of them has a web site with videos by teachers and students for students ( http://www.nextvista.org/ ). Checking the site further, I could see no sign of licensing information. Am wondering if these are meant to be used solely online. If it doesn't say it's licensed a certain way, then it falls under copyright. The other speaker is promoting mobile learning via tools like the iPad ( http://ischoolinitiative.org/ ). I'm not feeling too encouraged about our district's use of Free and Open Source technology at this point.