Edubuntu in NI School

[Declan McGrath]

On Friday 19 February 2010 21:33:34 Julie Pichon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 18 February 2010 23:25, Declan McGrath <declan at weuseopensource.com> 
wrote:
> > Ya, it was a nice piece of news. I hope it works out well because it
> > would be a great reference case for other schools to follow. I'm sure it
> > will be a great success!
> >
> > Hope some schools down here get on board in the same way soon!
> 
> Last time I was looking around I found this case study of a primary
> school in Kerry: http://opensourceschools.org.uk/node/729 .
> 
> Although they're having some great successes, it's kind of mitigated
> by teachers' reluctance to use/learn an operating system they're not
> familiar with (so they're using Edubuntu on their first older machine;
> and free software (and freeware) running on Windows for the new
> machines). That's why I'm really curious about Andrew Gribben's
> experience and I hope follow-up posts will mention how to get (and
> keep!) the school staff on board.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Julie
> 

Thanks for the link Julie. That's interesting stuff - even if Kerry ends up 
filed under opensourceschools ***org.uk***

:-)

I will bookmark that link and see what some teachers that I know think of the 
software listed on that page (because I don't really know what educational 
software there is out there on Ubuntu myself).

Will be very interesting to see Andrew Gibbons experience. Let's hope it's a 
good one!

Have a good weekend,
Dec