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Re: [LUG] working with A level students in a Microsoft Academy

 

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 16:20 +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
>   
> 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).
I would not disabuse him as I would simply use OOo plus any free software 
on a Linux machine that did what he was asking for or come up with something 
better. Am I right in thinking that the "e-books" he is talking about are 
web-based, with a mixture of text, pictures, sound and movies? So, whatever 
creates it must import all sorts and tie it together as html?
> 
> I am sure we can come up with some good ideas. 
Yes please. It would be nice to surprise them all.

-- 
james kilty
http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk


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