Posts Tagged: FLOSS

Digital Learning / VLE and Moodle — No Comments
5
Jan 10

School Closed.

Tonight at 22:30 I posted that Hamble Community Sports College would be closed tomorrow (Wednesday 6th) in 3 different places on our website. Updates to follow daily. It was very quick, I simply turn the front page off, turned school closed page on. Added the closed dates to the calendar and updated the ticker. I even reminded students that they had access to their user areas via the VLE. Another reason to administrate your own webiste on a FLOSS CMS platform. How do you inform parents and students of school closures?

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Digital Learning — No Comments
18
Apr 09

Gadget Show FLOSS

It would seem that FLOSS is flavour of the month. When I started in my current post FLOSS obivously well distributed, however in the last 5-6 months its seems to have a helpng hand, more government support and reconition. Today as I was settling my son and listening to the TV, FLOSS gets a mention on the Gadget Show. Not only that, but another feature, Netbooks.

Their recommendations;

Spotify
Stellarium
Dropbox
VLC Portable
Sumo Paint

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Digital Learning — No Comments
12
Apr 09

Open Minded Part 2

Is FLOSS / open source a viable  option for your School? Well we a blended approach has had some significant benefits for us here at Hamble Community Sports College.

As for open source is FREE? I don’t intend to swim in those murky waters. Open maybe FREE but, but it is FREE as in ‘FREE Kittens.’ What is open source most certainly is, is redistributable, allowing for the legal (and encouraged) use of the software outside of school and hereby eliminating significantly reducing the impact socio-economic background of the student.

Open source also requires the development of our staffing expertise. Open source community is second to none and has also lead to more conversation with our local partners and the use of online communication tools such as Twitter and Gtalk. There are many other discussions to be had, reliability, interoperability, security, scalability but for now that’s a good starting point.

One final point, don’t forget edugames or commercial games now re-licensed as freeware, our students have really enjoyed Savage: The Battle for Newerth, just select your games wisely.

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