On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:05:12 +1300 Warren Stuart wrote: > The MoE needs to do more to supply schools with OOo CD-ROMs and > support the uptake of open-source software. Perhaps they could > negotiate a deal to get star office + support and provide it free to > schools along with the "free" apple software and "free" Microsoft > Software, It would also allow the teachers to hand out OOo CD-ROMs to > students so they can have the same software (and same version of that > software) at home. > > --Warren.
If you discuss this with the average school teacher in the average school they do not want to know. *They think the govt is loverrly because the schools essentially get free software (or software that is not directly out of the school's budget). *The teachers do a lot of group training, in clusters of 5 or so schools, so you would need all 5 schools to change or else you lose the advantage of group education - ie you would increase costs to have one part of the cluster learning OOo and the other on MS. *People do not like to change, that includes teachers and pupils. Not pouring cold water, but theres more to it than thrusting as few cd's at people. Also support does not necessarily equal training. > > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
