On 10/21/07, Mike Wohlrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My school Monroe Community College in Rochester NY has put office 2007 into > mass > circulation on all the computers.
This is a different thread, isn't it? Nearly all schools get software on an academic institution discount that's an order of magnitude less that retail or even wholesale. To the mindset of an academic institution, this can be more attractive that some *free* application they will have to support themselves. The ongoing costs are nontrivial, however, in either case. This is along the reasoning of "give away the razors, make it up in razorblades." You'll note that students (and their parents) can buy academic priced Office 2007 for $140 (or the WordPerfect Office Student for $95). I have taught "Computer Applications for the Non-Computer Major" at the college level. Ideally, we would like students to learn the principles of using office tools, not memorize the keystrokes to do one thing. Just recently, I added a new feature to a client's intranet overnight, prior to a morning meeting with them. When I got there, I did a demo to the client's manager, explained (several times) how to copy the HTML off the web browser, and use the "Paste Special" option to paste structured text into a spreadsheet or word processor, and adjust the tabs or column widths to get the data to appear correctly. They were happy. Then, I went to show the clerical staff how to use the new feature. They had already found it, figured out how to use it, and had shipped the results off to their customers that morning. The moral of the story: students should learn how to use tools, not how to use a tool. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
