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Comment by Dr Anna Maria Wertlen on April 7, 2011 at 12:34pm

Is there a member here in this group who works in rural or peri-urban South Africa or Southern Africa and is interested in a FLOSS social networking site - especially designed for learners and teachers - that functions off-line, so that interrupted Internet connectivity and low Internet quota isn't a problem?

Comment by Jim Roberts on February 5, 2011 at 2:14pm

Anyone have experience in using Moodle?

Comment by Jessie Chuang on December 12, 2010 at 6:30am

We support open educational resources and cost-effective technology aid to take the full advantage of digital contents and tools in classrooms.

We provide interactive projector or interactive module which give you interactive whiteboards on any surface but only cost a fraction of traditional ones.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ClassroomAid?feature=mhum

Comment by Kevin Murphy on September 21, 2010 at 7:54am

Really cool website Donna

Comment by Donna GUTHRIE on September 21, 2010 at 7:09am

Hello, have a website called MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids (www.meetmeatthecorner.org) . I am very interested in using technology in the classroom and developing a website that is helpful to the classroom teacher.

Comment by emma nilsson on August 31, 2009 at 1:31am

hey there!..... i came across a site http://surveycheese.com and i'm able to earn 700 to 1000$ every month by just spending \2 hrs a day.i would like to spread the word...its my extra income option..thats it

Comment by Geoff St. Pierre on February 18, 2009 at 7:00am

Logo is good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

There are a variety of implementations of it for Linux/UNIX, Mac, and uhh that other one.

Geoff

Comment by Nocturnal on September 5, 2008 at 5:47pm

Programming! does anyone know of any kid friendly programming software for up to an 8th grade level?

Comment by Bill Schreiter on June 4, 2008 at 6:01pm

Hi, My name is Bill and I work in a school district in Ontario Canada. We use a mixture of WordPerfect and Microsoft Office in the classroom. WordPerfect version 12 is provided by the Ministry of Education to school districts for free. MS Office is something that we have to purchase over and over again.

For a variety of reasons I would like to champion a move to replace both Office suites with Open Office. These reasons are clear to me ... such as student take home, compatibility, features and finally price... This does not mention all the benefits to FLOSS and the community support compared to any proprietary software.

Do you know of districts that have moved to Open Office?

What are the issues?

What about importing old WordPerfect documents... I have trouble with the graphics that in the wpg (wordperfect) format.

Do you know of case studies, feature comparisons etc that might help?

Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.

Bill

PS: I am very new and if this is inappropriate please tell me and I will retract and withdraw...

Comment by Alan Hodson on March 26, 2008 at 6:51pm

I am wondering if there is a use for a service that personilizes the wonderful OS software available as an .ISO download from http://theopendisc.com/education. Let me explain: I am involved with a local community effort to provide low and medium income families loans for PC acquisitions (HP/Intel/WellsFargo,etc) and one of the offers is a PC without any software (other than XP) where the El Paso Collaborative (where I volunteer) provides the Open Source Software CD, customized from the address above. Thus, splash screens, credits and links all have been customized to promote our local effort (PR really) while the opendisc.org product is still the meat and potatoes (and they know about EPC). If anybody might want to look at a customized image, I can direct them to the project's repository. The idea is offering a very cool CD while being able to promote your own cause.