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Goals

• Introduce [http://www.edubuntu.org Edubuntu] into schools.

• Encourage use of [http://www.theopencd.org Free/Open Source Software for Windows] in schools and universities to increase acceptance of FOSS.

UKTeam Involvement in Educational Organisations

The Photographic Society at Cardiff University

Contact: SteveSmith

I'm president of the Photographic Society. Beginning in September we'll be teaching photo manipulation with [http://www.gimp.org GIMP]. My philosophy is to focus on the basics, with emphasis on why you do things in a particular way (e.g. why it's good to use layers). If you teach photo manipulation or anything similar I'd love to hear your experiences!

I'm finding that Windows Free/Open Source (see [http://www.theopencd.org TheOpenCD]) is a great way to slowly inch people in the 'right direction'. I'm involved in [http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk/cardiff Cardiff's Software Freedom Day team].

Resources

Organisations

• [http://www.edubuntu.org Edubuntu]

• [http://www.moodle.org Moodle]

• [http://www.schoolforge.org.uk Schoolforge-UK]

• [http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Case_Studies list of schools using FOSS]

• [http://www.becta.org.uk BECTA]

• [http://business.newsforge.com/search.pl?tid=35 NewsForge education section]

• [http://www.elearning.ac.uk JISC e-Learning]

Articles

• [http://www.becta.org.uk/corporate/publications/documents/BEC5606_Full_report18.pdf BECTA: Open Source Software in Schools (PDF)]

• [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=34002 The Open University builds student online environment with Moodle and more]

• [http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020472,39256042-6,00.htm ZDNet UK: Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds]

• [http://uk.sun.com/sunnews/press/2006/2006-03-08.html Sun Microsystems: Bradford Council Builds Schools for the Future with Sun Microsystems]

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