[OS:N:] Re: open-source-now-list digest, Vol 1 #435 - 2 msgs

[anthony baldwin <mrbaldwin school-library net>]

>Message: 2
>Subject: Re: [OS:N:] Open source for schools
>From: Karsten Wade <kwade redhat com>
>To: open-source-now-list redhat com
>Date: 23 Nov 2002 21:55:39 -0800
>Reply-To: open-source-now-list redhat com
>
>On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 11:37, anthony baldwin wrote:
>> There has been talk, at least at Schoolforge, of creating an open
>> source database of curricula, lesson plans, etc.  I am hoping that
>> my site can expand to contribute to precisely this kind of effort, 
>> as well as be a technology resource.
>
>Now here's something really in the spirit of free sharing of ideas that
>is at the core of the open source movement.
>
>Can you imagine what education would be like if each educator or school
>closely guarded it's curricula, not sharing ideas with other teachers
>and schools?  If schools created lesson plans which were designed to
>produce e.g. great SAT test takers, and held those ideas as intellectual
>property?  It's precisely those concerns that gave rise to the free
>software movement.
>
>I submit this as a comparison that might strike home to educators you
>deal with.  Explain that open source is like an open curriculum, where
>teachers and students are free to share ideas not only inside the
>classroom, but across classrooms, between grades and amongst schools,
>with the only limitation being that no limits may be applied.
>
>- Karsten
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>
I like that analogy.
I have actually completely rearragned the home page of my site twice in the past 24 hours.  I have added a new forum, too.  The interface for the old one sucked and the host interjected not only too much advertisement, but ads that were, in my estimation, inappropriate content for an education site.  I want to completely update my open source sections, too, separating the Mac resources, BSD resources and Linux resources all onto separate pages, and perhaps another page for the limited list of freeware resources for the (yuck) windows environment that I have listed.  I will also be adding to my teacher resources and updating that page, but much of this work my have to wait until christmas break.  Today, I have 70 essays to correct/grade and about 3 hours of grduate school homework, too.  I am excited about having a new direction for my site.  I am hoping that educators and opensource developers alike will use my site to communicate.
Thanks,

Tony


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