[Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students

[Roland Gesthuizen]

My IT kids were really motivated by making their very own, royalty free
clipart so I put this Inkscape handout together.
  http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=2964

Interesting comment by our media teacher about publisher, questioning the
real DTP skills learned students He noted, anybody can design a 3 fold flier
without thinking .. if it is so easy, what are students really learning? If
the output is all that matters, is it cheating to then e-mail your work to
somebody else to fix, tweak and post back? He loved the first get your hands
dirty using a real tool approach. Akin to using a wet darkroom to process,
crop and print photographs compared to clicking on the automatically adjust
my digital photograph button. I have never thought of it in those terms.

Join in, laugh and have fun celebrating all their small steps.

Regards Roland

PS: Money we saved spending on FOSS was spent on buying a huge A1 panoramic
printer.

On 06/03/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
> We have all those installed around the school for just those reasons.  ;-)
> Especially Scribus as the inability of Publisher to be compatible with
> even itself is excruciating!
>
>
> victor rajewski wrote:
> > On 3/6/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> >> We are moving the school over to Open Office for long term
> >> compatability, readability and multi OS availability. AND the fact it
> is
> >> $0 for *all* students.  ;)
> >
> > On that note, can I point out there are also some cool cross platform
> > open source design tools out there - Gimp does a mighty good job
> > replacing photoshop, Inkscape is a vector graphics program much like
> > illustrator, and for desktop publishing there is Scribus. All free,
> > all use open file formats, and all run on Windows, OSX, and Linux.
> >
> > There is also OpenOffice Draw, but I haven't used it yet.
> >
> > I just had my first play with Inkscape this afternoon, and found it
> > easier to use in a lot of respects than Illustrator :)
> >
> > vik
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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