[Ubuntu-PH] Ubuntu integrated to curriculum

Thu Jan 15 06:37:59 UTC 2009

Thank you very much for the links. It may be exciting at times to be a
one-man IT dept., but links like these greatly cut the time it takes to make
things happen :-) Well, this Saturday, I will make a pitch for FOSS to our
relatively young Mayor. I will definitely be asking from you guys more input
and directions, pag naka-ige.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:15 AM, hard wyrd <hardwyrd at gmail.com> wrote:

> More resources:
>
> Open Learning Initiative - http://oli.web.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/free.do
> The Open University - http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php
> The Open Curriculum of The Open High School of Utah -
> http://openhighschool.org/curriculum
> Open Source Curriculum at Wikipedia -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_curriculum
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:23 AM, esmerldo guimbarda <g_esme at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > @Yolynne Medina
> >
> > Thanks & hope you could share that Open Source Curriculum to us soon ^_^
> >
> >
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:22:32 +0800
> > From: "Yolynne Medina" <yolynne at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-PH] Ubuntu integrated to curriculum?
> > To: "Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)"
> >     <ubuntu-ph at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Claret School of Zamboanga is running Kubuntu on all their Laboratories
> and
> > the Instructors did their own research and created their own Open Source
> > Curriculum and has been using it for nearly 2 years now, I also have a
> > friend in Koronadal who uses Open Source in teaching her HS students,
> will
> > look in to my files if I have contacts that have works in using OS in the
> > grade school level.
> >
> > Will try to visit them one of these days  and get a copy of it and then
> > email it to you.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yolynne
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Michael Vernon Guerrero <
> > guerrero at mydestiny.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Good day!
> >>
> >> I am a gratis consultant for a small primary and secondary school in
> >> Cavite, and currently have been advising the school administration to
> >> adopt Ubuntu as the standard operating system for their school computer
> >> laboratory, and primary OS in computer instructions, for the coming
> >> school year 2009-2010. The only glitch to this advice, so far, is the
> >> availability of literature or instructional manual on Ubuntu for the
> >> different grade/year levels. I hear from the grapevine that there are
> >> allied organizations or individuals supposedly undertaking to
> >> incorporate Ubuntu instructions into the Philippine school curriculum. I
> >> hope someone can help me hook up to the appropriate resource.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for your kind assistance.
> >>
> >> Berne
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> > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:01:43 +0800
> > From: "Mon Sagullo" <monsagullo at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-PH] Ubuntu integrated to curriculum?
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> > Hello, Berne and Troy.
> >
> > In my case, it was easy to convince the administrators to switch to
> > Ubuntu/Ooo. They are "young enough" to appreciate the technical,
> financial
> > and "philosophical" merits of switching to this tandem. Any cost savings
> is
> > good for the school, and good for the parents.  The instructors'
> reluctance
> > eventually gave way after they "played" around with the Live CD I gave
> them.
> > Since we have a cast-in stone policy to minimize the expenses of our
> > students, we would be grateful too if there is a "downloadable "
> simplified
> > How-To for Ubuntu and OOo.
> >
> > Our meager aim for now is how to impart basic proficiency in using this
> > bundle. A "dummy" reference booklet would be nice. For now, we make do
> with
> > "Screenhots" and a short explanation :-)
> >
> >
> > Mon
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, ??`????(R)????????
> > <troy_lim at yahoo.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Berne,
> >>
> >> Are you from Cavite too?
> >>
> >> I too am a gratis (IT) consultant for a private school here in Cavite.
>  I
> >> also tried to convince the school admin to switch to ubuntu since last
> >> year
> >> and I think we have the same problem... (actually, they tried and
> >> installed
> >> ubuntu for two months but got back to Window$
> >>
> >> The schools can't adapt Ubuntu as of now for the following reasons:
> >>
> >> 1. The Instructors are very reluctant to the idea because they think
> they
> >> will have a hard time learning the new operating system...
> >>
> >> 2. The School Administrators think that the money they spent for their
> >> licensed operating system would be a waste if they switch to ubuntu.
> >>
> >> 3. Lack of textbooks. As of now, as far as I know, no local publisher
> >> published any textbook for Ubuntu or even for Linux in general. Of
> course
> >> we
> >> could always download free ebooks on ubuntu from the internet but....
> >>
> >> 4. Finally, The school makes profit through textbooks, huge amount of
> >> percentage for the school will be lost if they just let the students
> >> download all the materials from the net. Of course the school
> >> administrators
> >> didn't tell me that. :D But I know for a fact that they do profit from
> it.
> >>
> >> Maybe we could meetup and discuss or make plans on how to convince the
> >> schools make the big switch.
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> **Troy Frederick Lim*
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