On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Sarah Chard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > We are now only a couple of weeks away from the launch of HLUG's Open Source > Schools Project and it has been very interesting helping to set the whole > thing up. The project is launching at our Software Freedom Day Event in > Hereford and we have a lecturer from one of the local colleges speaking on > open source in education and the importance of ensuring that students > understand the fundamentals of computing - if you are anywhere near on the > 17th Sept do come and support the event - details can be found at > http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk/node/89 > > We are working on the project which is running during the autumn term with > support from Hereford Councils education department and have had meetings > with the engineers responsible for the networks at the schools we will be > visiting to ensure that they are happy with our plans - we have been very > pleased at the amount of interest and support there has been so far and our > first in-school visit is on sept 19 following SFD. > > Ubuntu is the main OS that we will be demonstrating at our SFD event and > also the one most likely to be suggested to schools we visit alongside our > Tuxedu OS which has been designed (initially using lubuntu as a base) > specifically for the project. > We are not intending to convert schools wholesale to using open source but > to start movement in that direction, helping them to increase their use and > confidence in Open Source Programs and give them an experience of using a > linux based OS. By giving teachers the information and the tools in an > easily usable form which will not dramatically increase their workload we > hope to encourage teachers, students and hopefully parents use of open > source software. > > It's an ongoing project and I hope some of the people on this list will be > encouraged to take it into schools in their area - as materials are > finalised we will be sharing them online. > > cheers > Sarah
Hi Sarah Thanks for sharing this and good luck with the project. Please post back with how it went. I would love to get our daughter's school to embrace Open Source computing, so would be very interested in reading any posts/write-ups you do about the success of this initiative, and how it was received by teachers, parents and kids alike. Regards Becky Newborough -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
