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Re: [LUG] Educational Resources

 

On 27/09/11 11:50, paul sutton wrote:
On 27/09/11 11:40, tom wrote:
On 27/09/11 10:52, Philip Whateley wrote:
Does anyone know of a supplier of educational resources (CD-ROM) etc.
for Early Years/Foundation Stage curriculum that will run on Linux
(either native or with Wine)?

We have quite a few that are Windows(95-XP)/Mac-OSX compatible, but only
a few run on Wine.

Many thanks

Phil Whateley


You’d think that, since the DOE sets the curriculum you'd think they'd
have the sense to put it online and then most of your course material
would just pop into existence....
Tom te tom te tom

The curriculum is online,  however we are talking about software used to
support the curriculum.

Paul

Yes but if it was in html/javascript then a browser would do. Some of those PDFs about the curriculum are ~ 40 pages long, only 10 of which contain any detail of the actual curriculum - the rest of it is metadata that is repeated in most of the other PDF's. Even the web pages are unbelievably shit! Take http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages-1-and-2/subjects/music/keystage1/index.aspx hover over most highlighted stuff and it will pop-up a box and tell you about a cross reference. Why not a link to the sodding thing? Why not provide schools with a template web structure for them to add their stuff to. Cant find it on your school website - checkout other schools. Sorry personal gripe - but it really hacks me off spending a couple of hours sorting out wine and bloody quicktime to run an educational CD for the kids that could have been done just as effectively in html. Imagine what it would be like for all teachers to make their work available online - after all we pay for it!
Tom te tom te tom

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