Hi Craig,
I was speaking to the Principal of Alton college just yesterday about
their use of Moodle as their VLE. They have been using it for 4 years
and have been investing it its development which is great. Edubuntu is
nice, my kids use it but they are a bit younger (primary age). It has
some neat tricks like the linux terminal server where you can install it
on one PC and set a bunch of other workstations to boot from the network.
I would be happy to visit the school and demo some software and talk
about the educational benefits of Free and Open source!
Alan Bell
The Open Learning Centre
Craig wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I posted this in Ubuntu-UK and had a great response. Several people
> pointed me towards you guys, so I thought I'd see what advice you could
> give me.
>
> I have been an Ubuntu user for not very long (since around October) and
> have been amazed at the stability, compatibility and usability amongst
> many other things. I think it really shows what a community can do if
> they pull together - they can develop an operating system that (in my
> biased opinion) is better than that of a multi-billion pound company.
> I am 13 and go to Court Moor School in Fleet. The school is very
> keen on getting the latest technology - virtual learning environments,
> computerised registration etc. Currently I am persuading various people
> around the school to switch to ubuntu. I have found quite a few people
> who would be interested in having someone who really knows what they're
> talking about to show them some of the features and the security they
> could use and some of the things included in edubuntu.
> Obviously this is still in early stages, I was just wondering if
> this is something that anyone would possibly be interested in doing so I
> could negotiate further. Otherwise, any ideas on ways to persuade a
> school to switch to ubuntu? What I would really like to know is who I
> really need to talk to - Head of ICT, technicians... and also some
> information about what sort of things edubuntu has.
>
> Craig.
>
>
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