Ian Lynch wrote:
Thinking about it a bit more, one thing we could propose is for the Gov.
to sponsor whole class teaching materials in Maths for all kids aged
9-14. I estimate that we would need about 300 OOo Impress lessons to
cover the whole National Curriculum for maths for this age range. At say
£200 per lesson that's £60k. A rounding error on the government's £100m
a year input to curriculum on-line. If they insist on ODF format for
these lessons it means to access them the schools have to use OOo
Impress at this point in time.
I think this is a really good idea. If the schools want to get this
resource either they all install OOo or Microsoft has to support
OpenDocument. Either way we win. The existence of this teaching resource
also has knock-on effect on other schools in the world. And from the
UK's point of view, this plan seems to have very low risk finnacial risk
and very low political risk. After all, they are not siding with any
supplier. They are just making a teaching resource in the only
internationally approved open format for office documents.
We can use this to promote OOo further. At the simplest level, BECTA can
just send each school a comprehensive list of software that supports
OpenDocument (again, very safe politically). Actually installing OOo in
every school desktop seems safe enough too (after all, you're not
forcing anyone to use it, it's just a free alternative).
So we could end up with OOo in every desktop, and a motivation to use
it, in the form of a good educational resource in OpenDocument format.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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