On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:34:56 -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > The woman who created this .xls spreadsheet is considered a hero at this > school. The spreadsheet was created 2 years ago, and this school has grown > by 33% or so since that time. But they are still using the same spreadsheet > system because it loads lightning fast on Excel. You couldn't possibly tell > them that Excel is not a good solution for this need, unfortunately. I > wouldn't even broach the subject, because they think that I am a wee bit odd > as it is. Heh. > > It has taken me two years to get to the point where I can now ask one > teacher to do an introduction to the students on the Ubuntu philosophy: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28philosophy%29 > > One of the key regional differences in attitudes that I am seeing with my > work in shooting the Digital Tipping Point is that in North America and > parts of Europe, the emphasis is on practicality of computer usage, to the > utter exclusion of philosophy in some cases, especially as contrasted with > the attitudes in Latin America, where the idea of digital freedom > resonates. That certainly is true in the case of this school, at least.
This is probably overkill for your situation at the moment, but might be worth looking at later. http://richtech.ca/openadmin/index.html HTH Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
