[ubuntu-uk] School websites

[J Fernyhough]

On 11 June 2011 14:08, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:
>
> Erm, this is a SCHOOL!

Sparta?

>
> If they've got an even remotely competent IT Teacher

Ha, nice one. See previous discussions. :) Plus, primary schools don't
have IT teachers, they have class teachers (who might have a
specialism, normally Early Years, occasionally in IT).

> then he/she could
> presumably create an appliocation allowing the admin staff to enter the data
> in a generic form and it to then be rendered both in HTML and PDF format.
>
> Surely?!?!

But why? PDF works fine for most people, without factoring in the
effort required and the fact that teachers generally don't have time
to mess around writing applications (even if they could).

>
> And if they put their minds to it Westfield School could ring up Preston
> school and say "fancy our app?" and work together... might even get Yeovil
> College to chip in...
>

It's a good idea, but someone needs to be able to do it.

> Surely SCHOOL websites should "showcase" the calibre of the teaching - not
> send kids out into the world joking about "how naff" their school site is?
>
> Sean
>

There aren't many who can - and as an OSS community instead of
bitching about it why not make it happen? Approach schools with
applications and expertise and get the websites sorted out? This was
already raised in another discussion about BBC Click - and this is
another service the LOCO could provide.

Jonathon