[HLUG] education related software for ISFD

[Julian Robbins]

On 2 August 2010 18:49, Sarah Chard <sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk> wrote:

> thanks Paul
> does anyone know if any of the  other main distro's do 'education'
> versions?
>

Edubuntu is the main one, though  think a Kent school put one together.
There was an article about this in Linux Format a year or two ago. Richard
Smedley, a member of our LUG and a few others knows about Linux in education
..



> also any ideas for cross platform software?
>


Moodle. Its a web based teaching system to arrnage your whole curriculum.
Supposed to be excellent and used by quite a few schools/uni's already.

Dont forget though that with schools the issue is muddied a bit by having to
use software that works with the national curriculum. Although BECTA was
quite keen on OSS, they will be know more soon

Julian


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> Sarah
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> SFD event - 18 Sept 2010 -
> http://piratepad.net/n7Tuzn49Is
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> On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 18:37 +0100, Paul Stenning wrote:
> > Edubuntu is an official version of Ubuntu specifically aimed at
> > schools
> > etc, but I know nothing further about it.  May be worth a look though.
> > http://edubuntu.org/
> >
> > Paul
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