[SLUG] FLOSSIE

[Rob Hall]

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 07:47 +0100, Martin Webb wrote:
> Rob Hall wrote:

> What is crossposting?

I posted this message to a number of LUG mailing lists up here in
t'north east.

> What is FLOSSIE?

The Free Libre & Open Source Software In Education conference in Bolton.
It is a conference about, er, free and open source educational
software!!

> What is moodle?

An open source virtual learning environment which you can tailor for
your own particular establishment. Looks fantastic. I work at
Northallerton College which serves students 14 yrs old and upwards so we
have a diverse range of users and needs. To find open source solutions
is, to my sad little mind, a fabulous way forward. I sometimes feel that
we are teaching a product rather than the concepts in ICT.

> 
> As a career long educationist I fully support the ideas in this posting.
> At the village shop in Castleton, moors village west of Whitby, 
> shopkeeper and IT specialist, at own cost, have installed Linux machine, 
> with broadband, for use of villagers. I have e-mailed to encourage.  Am 
> working on the idea of similar setsup, with grant funding, here in the 
> East End - not shops, but community centre, church.  Local school?  Hmm.

Why not! I understand that the Wensleydale School in Leyburn use a
mixture of Windows, Linux, proprietary and open source software so
probably worth a chat that way. You might even be able to persuade a
company or college who are upgrading to donate older equipment which has
outlived its Windows days but would get a new lease of life by being
penguined!

Rob