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james kilty wrote: > Hello > > I have had a delightful exchange with the head of ICT at Falmouth School > as a result of inviting a member of staff and a student or 2 to the > Penzance Open sessions. At the end of the eachange I offered a > demonstration of GNU/Linux to A-Level students. His reply will tax me > somewhat so I offer it to you for guidance. As always, if I do anything > like this I will gladly defer to a more expert member if anyone is up to > accompanying me. Here is his reply. > > "I may well accept your invitation to come in and demonstrate some of > your software. As well as the obvious if you have any free and easy to > use multimedia software that you could show that would be great. > > Students have to create e-books and we currently use Macromedia > Dreamweaver with some dropping down to PowerPoint and saving as html. > Some students are producing a multimedia presentation and will at > present use PowerPoint then convert it to flash using a conversion > program. > Any ideas you have in this area would be well appreciated. > Students also have to talk about the digital divide and free industry > standard software such as Star Office can help close this. If you are > serious about your offer perhaps we could discuss exactly what you have > to offer , what our students need and come up with a cunning plan." > > Ideas please. > > Thanks > As far as I am aware staroffices is NOT free, it may be free to students but its the paid for version of Openoffice.org which is free of charge, and open source, (I am not going to say its Free software as I am unsure, comments on this welcome). Star / openoffice AFAIK can export to swf, does anyone have experience with this. As for the digital divide I think Tom B has excellent expertise in this area, with his projects sending hardware / software to Africa for use in schools, There are many other examples on the web regarding how OSS is really helping education overseas, and that is just education. In addition doing this does also stop good working computers ending up in landfill in the UK. Members of the lug such as my self and Rob Beard, are looking at getting OSS into a community centre in Exeter, LTSP networks. We just need some help getting this off the ground, time, money or other expertise, which I think Rob is working on. I am sure we can come up with some good ideas. hope this helps Paul -- Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org Events 25th October 2007 - Meeting Paignton 20th October 2007 - Lug clustering meeting. Is this still on !!!! 18th October 2007 - Ubuntu 7.10 release date 28th October - Penzance Computers meet 11th November. Penzance Computers meet details on lug site, www.dcglug.org.uk under meetings. visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html