Re: [school-discuss] Looking for Anyone Doing Training on Open Source Software in Education

[Chris Gregan <cgregan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damir,
I almost forgot. You should also explore Moodle. Many schools here in 
the US use it as a way for students, teachers, and parents to actively 
participate in the learning process over a nicely designed portal. 
Here's a link to my installation. It has a demo class loaded which 
describes the features of the system.

http://aptenix.com/moodle/


Chris Gregan
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Open Source Migration Specialist/Founder
Aptenix LLC-Desktop Solutions
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Damir wrote:
> Vedran Vucic pravi:
> > If you look for people  who work on deployment on free software in 
> > education, I am one of those. :-)
> >
> > If you need to know more about projects I am involved in , please let 
> > me know.
>
> I'm IT teacher in a small elementary school in Lendava, Slovenia, and 
> interested in promoting OSS in education. Ministry of Education here 
> (www.mss.gov.si) started some project a few years ago and we got 
> Slovenian Linux distro (Pingo - www.pingo.org ) and new PCs for all came 
> with dual boot.
> But then, project died (ministry made a deal with MS and we all have 
> licenses for XP an Office now). Ministry stopped (actively) promoting 
> OSS there are no new educational applications being developed.
>
> I'm running school server on Linux, but all classroom PCs (~30) are XP 
> (on new hardware) or W95 (very old hardware, P166MHz). Beside this, I'm 
> still very interested in using more OSS applications in my school and 
> very happy to hear all advices I can get.
>
> Thanks,
> Damir