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. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:15 AM, hard wyrd <<a href="mailto:hardwyrd@gmail.com">hardwyrd@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> More resources: Open Learning Initiative - <a href="http://oli.web.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/free.do" target="_blank">http://oli.web.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/free.do</a> The Open University - <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php" target="_blank">http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php</a> The Open Curriculum of The Open High School of Utah - <a href="http://openhighschool.org/curriculum" target="_blank">http://openhighschool.org/curriculum</a> Open Source Curriculum at Wikipedia - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_curriculum" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_curriculum</a> <div class="Ih2E3d"> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:23 AM, esmerldo guimbarda <<a href="mailto:g_esme@yahoo.com">g_esme@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> @Yolynne Medina > > Thanks & hope you could share that Open Source Curriculum to us soon ^_^ > > > ________________________________ > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:22:32 +0800 > From: "Yolynne Medina" <<a href="mailto:yolynne@gmail.com">yolynne@gmail.com</a>> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-PH] Ubuntu integrated to curriculum? > To: "Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)" > <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > Message-ID: > <<a href="mailto:db0150130901130122q1454be40v362a5cb6e741baf3@mail.gmail.com">db0150130901130122q1454be40v362a5cb6e741baf3@mail.gmail.com</a>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 < > <a href="mailto:guerrero@mydestiny.net">guerrero@mydestiny.net</a>> 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 >> >> -- >> Michael Vernon Guerrero Mendiola >> <a href="http://www.berneguerrero.com" target="_blank">www.berneguerrero.com</a> >> >> Partner and Attorney-at-Law >> Ocampo Arciaga-Santos Nu?ez Lomangaya and Guerrero >> 214 Wilson Street, Greenhills >> San Juan City, Metro Manila, Philippines 1500 >> +632 7251481, 7240595, 7220432 >> >> Deputy Executive Director >> e-Law and IT Centers, Arellano University School of Law >> Taft Avenue corner Menlo Street >> Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines 1300 >> +632 5214690, 4043089, 4043092 >> >> Deputy Project Lead >> Creative Commons Philippines >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-ph mailing list >> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph</a> >> >> > > > -- > > ======================================= > YOLYNNE MEDINA > Networking Specialist for IOSN ASEAN+3 > <a href="http://www.iosn.net" target="_blank">http://www.iosn.net</a> | <a href="http://yolynne.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://yolynne.wordpress.com</a> > ym: yolynne.rm googletalk: yolynne skype: ynmedina > IRC nick: ulinskie server: <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> > Channels: #iosn #ubuntu-ph #ubuntu-women > "Laughter nourishes our Soul" > ======================================= > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/attachments/20090113/27291b21/attachment-0001.htm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/attachments/20090113/27291b21/attachment-0001.htm</a> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:01:43 +0800 > From: "Mon Sagullo" <<a href="mailto:monsagullo@gmail.com">monsagullo@gmail.com</a>> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-PH] Ubuntu integrated to curriculum? > To: "Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)" > <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > Message-ID: > <<a href="mailto:804936580901131701y3500a49bw85174d652461b02f@mail.gmail.com">804936580901131701y3500a49bw85174d652461b02f@mail.gmail.com</a>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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)???????? > <<a href="mailto:troy_lim@yahoo.com">troy_lim@yahoo.com</a>>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! >> >> >> *----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> **Troy Frederick Lim* >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/attachments/20090114/a8007157/attachment.htm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/attachments/20090114/a8007157/attachment.htm</a> > > ------------------------------ > > -- > ubuntu-ph mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ph@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph</a> > > > End of ubuntu-ph Digest, Vol 46, Issue 4 > **************************************** > > ________________________________ > How do I quit smoking? > Find out the ways on Yahoo! 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