FFP Release

[Janet Hawtin]

On 12/16/06, Janet Hawtin <lucychili at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/16/06, Denise Tzumli <denise at aarli.com.au> wrote:
> > Only 2 people per school are required to influence/educate. The
> > first is the librarian, and librarians are already fairly cluey as
> > to computing systems etc. The second is the on site IT person who
> > is often a second career path convert from some other discipline.
> > > a comprehensive professional development program needs to be undertaken to bring SA teaching staff up to scratch.
> > The way to get at them is to offer "in service training" during
> > the January holidays. It could be in the form of a conference.
>
> This is a great idea.  January is a bit tricky for this year.
> Unless we are fast and can get teachers to it in the first or second
> week of January.  After that we are at LCA.
>
> When is the next break for teachers and yes I think it would be nice
> to do an event targeted specially?
> I agree that empowering the teachers on site is the correct response
> for schools, particularly for open source software because for the
> freedom to participate to have an impact on students the teachers need
> to feel confident of the technology and able to understand what a
> student can do and to help them develop skills as well.
>
> Janet

Alphax does this not fit your suggestion?
Would you like to help?

1. Awareness of Free alternatives to existing software, as Paul says in
quoted bit.
2. Training in Free alternatives