Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
On 22 August 2013 18:54, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. Maybe specific templates or extensions that are especially useful for school? Good for students as well as for teachers? Any special tips or techniques about using AOO for school work? If we can come up with 10 nice ideas, I can write it up in a blog post. Pleas share any ideas you might have. Here is a draft blog post, using a number of the ideas suggested in this thread: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=back_to_school_with_apache Minor nits: s/multiple computer./multiple computers./ You can use OpenOffice perpetually, - that does not read well to me. Perpetually means ceaselessly/continuously to me - which is not something we should encourage! (kids also need to get out and about) Perhaps put something like: You can use OpenOffice, with no subscription fees - ever. Although the picture is fun, it is obviously US and white (and not recent). I'm not sure it gives the correct message for a multilingual modern appliction. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:36 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 August 2013 18:54, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. Maybe specific templates or extensions that are especially useful for school? Good for students as well as for teachers? Any special tips or techniques about using AOO for school work? If we can come up with 10 nice ideas, I can write it up in a blog post. Pleas share any ideas you might have. Here is a draft blog post, using a number of the ideas suggested in this thread: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=back_to_school_with_apache Minor nits: s/multiple computer./multiple computers./ You can use OpenOffice perpetually, - that does not read well to me. Perpetually means ceaselessly/continuously to me - which is not something we should encourage! (kids also need to get out and about) Perpetual is a licensing term, perhaps a term not familiar to the average blog reader. When you have a perpetual license it never expires. I've rephrased it along your suggestion. Perhaps put something like: You can use OpenOffice, with no subscription fees - ever. Although the picture is fun, it is obviously US and white (and not recent). I'm not sure it gives the correct message for a multilingual modern appliction. Our main concern has been to use freely available images, generally public domain ones. We've been finding them on Flickr Commons, which generally contains public domain works from various government archives: http://www.flickr.com/commons They are not all U.S. images. We've used good ones from Australia, Norway, Ireland, etc., in the past. But are predominately older, BW images. Feel free to look around those available images. If you find something more appropriate we use it. In theory we could use some forms of CC images as well, but so far we tried to limit ourselves to images that were permissively licensed. Something I'd like to organize, at some point, is a photo contest, where we can invite contributions of photographs of individuals and groups using AOO. Or maybe at a conference we can even shoot our own stock photos to give us a more modern set of images to work with. But I would like to avoid the cliche corporate stock photo of two people in business suits looking at a laptop, one sitting and one standing ;-) Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. Maybe specific templates or extensions that are especially useful for school? Good for students as well as for teachers? Any special tips or techniques about using AOO for school work? If we can come up with 10 nice ideas, I can write it up in a blog post. Pleas share any ideas you might have. Here is a draft blog post, using a number of the ideas suggested in this thread: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=back_to_school_with_apache Regards, -Rob -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, fred juan diaz diaz_frede...@yahoo.fr wrote: En date de : Ven 9.8.13, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de a On 06.08.2013 at 5:10 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:On 6 August 2013 15:56, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. So...did this ever happen? Don
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
Hi all, 2013/8/19 Donald Whytock dwhyt...@apache.org On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, fred juan diaz diaz_frede...@yahoo.fr wrote: En date de : Ven 9.8.13, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de a On 06.08.2013 at 5:10 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:On 6 August 2013 15:56, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. So...did this ever happen? If it happens, a reminder of the following post could also be interesting. http://markmail.org/message/4pzhwx47glilgxqd Can not be achieved immediately, of course, but I think that these ideas should not be forgotten, and stored in a more visible location. A+ -- gw
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, fred juan diaz diaz_frede...@yahoo.fr wrote: En date de : Ven 9.8.13, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de a On 06.08.2013 at 5:10 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:On 6 August 2013 15:56, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. So...did this ever happen? No. I started collecting ideas, but then had a family emergency to deal with, so I never pulled it all together. -Rob Don - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
On 06.08.2013 at 5:10 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:On 6 August 2013 15:56, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. 1. Use the same software at home and at school without worrying about licensing 2. Participate in the AOO community and provide useful things for others while you learn 3. Fix broken Word documents 4. Provide choice and promote transferrable skills by using more than one type of tool 5. Get a qualification referenced to the European Qualifications Framework 6. Fits nicely in a small/low income community's school budget. 7. Work in multiple languages. 8. use it on your llinux/win/mac machine 9. having all you need for the school in one suit/program (cause other projects which has to make money trying to split up the programs like one program for writing onother for drawing to make more money) 10. possible to open other formats like .doc (maybe note that it does not work perfect because it's a propritary/closed format) but works mostly maybe also note some features that are new to 4.0, like the optional side bar which makes the work easier and faster. If you also want to mention that there are still some things missing, here are my most wanted/missing featured I still remember from shool: (of course there are more things like Inserting a bibliographic reference int a frame (e.g. image frame) (-will show up allways as [0])) #create a 3d surface chart (surface plots) #save the annotations in impress (don*t know if these are still missing) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
En date de : Ven 9.8.13, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de a écrit : Objet: Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post À: dev@openoffice.apache.org Date: Vendredi 9 août 2013, 13h33 bugreporte...@hushmail.com schrieb: On 06.08.2013 at 5:10 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:On 6 August 2013 15:56, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. 1. Use the same software at home and at school without worrying about licensing 2. Participate in the AOO community and provide useful things for others while you learn 3. Fix broken Word documents 4. Provide choice and promote transferrable skills by using more than one type of tool 5. Get a qualification referenced to the European Qualifications Framework 6. Fits nicely in a small/low income community's school budget. 7. Work in multiple languages. 8. use it on your llinux/win/mac machine 9. having all you need for the school in one suit/program (cause other projects which has to make money trying to split up the programs like one program for writing onother for drawing to make more money) 10. possible to open other formats like .doc (maybe note that it does not work perfect because it's a propritary/closed format) but works mostly maybe also note some features that are new to 4.0, like the optional side bar which makes the work easier and faster. If you also want to mention that there are still some things missing, here are my most wanted/missing featured I still remember from shool: (of course there are more things like Inserting a bibliographic reference int a frame (e.g. image frame) (-will show up allways as [0])) #create a 3d surface chart (surface plots) #save the annotations in impress (don*t know if these are still missing) 11. Use it from USB-stick and so work everywhere using your personal settings, even if AOO is not yet installed on your friends PC. German: digitale Schultasche Kind regards Regina 12 analyse existing school programs in different levels and see if it's possible to produce some resources that would be directly usable by students or pupils according to their programs. for example here are some little resources produced by EducOOo for our 14 - 19 y o pupils galleries and extensions http://campuslibre.educoo.org/main/document/document.php?cidReq=OUTILSAUTOUROOO AOODraw has enough features to allow simple electronic schematic design either using connectors or grid (the choice in these galleries, some of them taken from dsciences) millimetered, semi-log and log-log generator http://campuslibre.educoo.org/courses/BACPROM/document/24_Logarithmes_et_exponentielles/milifred4.otg an english version exists but as there is few text it would be easy to translate it in any language. This module is used by dmaths Oscilloscope simulator without macros http://campuslibre.educoo.org/courses/BACPROSCIENCESPHYSIQ/document/1_CME2_Alimentations_Installations_Protection/OOoscillo2.ods rem : after 25y of teaching , it appears to me that that pupils are mainly looking for short howtos (one page, no more) about specific issues related to their program of study (ex : how to deal with complex numbers in calc, how to write a simple formula, how to structure a homeworrk with AOO, where can i find an AOO template for my report of internship etc...) Best regards Fred Juan DIAZ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
There was some educational componentes builted called calclets but there still not fully developed. http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/School_Activities_with_Calc On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, fred juan diaz diaz_frede...@yahoo.frwrote: En date de : Ven 9.8.13, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de a écrit : Objet: Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post À: dev@openoffice.apache.org Date: Vendredi 9 août 2013, 13h33 bugreporte...@hushmail.com schrieb: On 06.08.2013 at 5:10 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:On 6 August 2013 15:56, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. 1. Use the same software at home and at school without worrying about licensing 2. Participate in the AOO community and provide useful things for others while you learn 3. Fix broken Word documents 4. Provide choice and promote transferrable skills by using more than one type of tool 5. Get a qualification referenced to the European Qualifications Framework 6. Fits nicely in a small/low income community's school budget. 7. Work in multiple languages. 8. use it on your llinux/win/mac machine 9. having all you need for the school in one suit/program (cause other projects which has to make money trying to split up the programs like one program for writing onother for drawing to make more money) 10. possible to open other formats like .doc (maybe note that it does not work perfect because it's a propritary/closed format) but works mostly maybe also note some features that are new to 4.0, like the optional side bar which makes the work easier and faster. If you also want to mention that there are still some things missing, here are my most wanted/missing featured I still remember from shool: (of course there are more things like Inserting a bibliographic reference int a frame (e.g. image frame) (-will show up allways as [0])) #create a 3d surface chart (surface plots) #save the annotations in impress (don*t know if these are still missing) 11. Use it from USB-stick and so work everywhere using your personal settings, even if AOO is not yet installed on your friends PC. German: digitale Schultasche Kind regards Regina 12 analyse existing school programs in different levels and see if it's possible to produce some resources that would be directly usable by students or pupils according to their programs. for example here are some little resources produced by EducOOo for our 14 - 19 y o pupils galleries and extensions http://campuslibre.educoo.org/main/document/document.php?cidReq=OUTILSAUTOUROOO AOODraw has enough features to allow simple electronic schematic design either using connectors or grid (the choice in these galleries, some of them taken from dsciences) millimetered, semi-log and log-log generator http://campuslibre.educoo.org/courses/BACPROM/document/24_Logarithmes_et_exponentielles/milifred4.otg an english version exists but as there is few text it would be easy to translate it in any language. This module is used by dmaths Oscilloscope simulator without macros http://campuslibre.educoo.org/courses/BACPROSCIENCESPHYSIQ/document/1_CME2_Alimentations_Installations_Protection/OOoscillo2.ods rem : after 25y of teaching , it appears to me that that pupils are mainly looking for short howtos (one page, no more) about specific issues related to their program of study (ex : how to deal with complex numbers in calc, how to write a simple formula, how to structure a homeworrk with AOO, where can i find an AOO template for my report of internship etc...) Best regards Fred Juan DIAZ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org
[IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. Maybe specific templates or extensions that are especially useful for school? Good for students as well as for teachers? Any special tips or techniques about using AOO for school work? If we can come up with 10 nice ideas, I can write it up in a blog post. Pleas share any ideas you might have. -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. 1. Use the same software at home and at school without worrying about licensing 2. Participate in the AOO community and provide useful things for others while you learn 3. Fix broken Word documents 4. Provide choice and promote transferrable skills by using more than one type of tool 5. Get a qualification referenced to the European Qualifications Framework Maybe specific templates or extensions that are especially useful for school? Good for students as well as for teachers? Any special tips or techniques about using AOO for school work? If we can come up with 10 nice ideas, I can write it up in a blog post. Pleas share any ideas you might have. -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications https://theingots.org/community/faq#7.0 Headline points in the 2014 and 2015 school league tables www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales.
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. 1. Use the same software at home and at school without worrying about licensing 2. Participate in the AOO community and provide useful things for others while you learn 3. Fix broken Word documents 4. Provide choice and promote transferrable skills by using more than one type of tool 5. Get a qualification referenced to the European Qualifications Framework 6. Fits nicely in a small/low income community's school budget. Don
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
On 6 August 2013 15:56, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. 1. Use the same software at home and at school without worrying about licensing 2. Participate in the AOO community and provide useful things for others while you learn 3. Fix broken Word documents 4. Provide choice and promote transferrable skills by using more than one type of tool 5. Get a qualification referenced to the European Qualifications Framework 6. Fits nicely in a small/low income community's school budget. 7. Work in multiple languages. Don - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post
2013/8/6 sebb seb...@gmail.com On 6 August 2013 15:56, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for school. 1. Use the same software at home and at school without worrying about licensing 2. Participate in the AOO community and provide useful things for others while you learn 3. Fix broken Word documents 4. Provide choice and promote transferrable skills by using more than one type of tool 5. Get a qualification referenced to the European Qualifications Framework 6. Fits nicely in a small/low income community's school budget. 7. Work in multiple languages. Don 8. Highly customizable. Can be adapted to different teaching situations and levels using extensions and/or interface customization. -- gw
