[Opensource] OpenSource for Schools Meeting?

[Donna Benjamin]

Ha! a road trip to Mt Gambier would be fun (we could take in the great
ocean road on the way there and the grampians on the way back?) 

Although that's probably not very practical for our first effort..?

so... Roland has offered us Westall...
Mar 21st - the Equinox and Harmony Day.

I'm seeing if I can line up a cool community duo to come and talk to us
about some exciting stuff in education and open source...

Would anyone like to volunteer to talk about what they're doing in their
school with Open Source?

cheers
Donna

PS: Peter - how was Korea?  Kathryn and Ian gave a great report about
your trip at the education mini-conf at LCA - perhaps you could share
some of your thoughts?

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 20:07 +1030, Peter Ruwoldt wrote:
> Fantastic idea Donna
> This is about Open Content and in the spirit of 'Free and open Education 
> for all'
> Would Grant High School in Mount Gambier be a good spot?
> hmm, probably not but could we hook into it somehow?
> Peter
> 
> Donna Benjamin wrote:
> > Who would be interested in Hosting an OpenSource for Schools Meeting?
> > In Mid March?
> >
> > After school, with light refreshments?
> > 4.30-6.30?
> >
> > 2 x 40 min talks... 
> > 1 x 40 min Flexible Time slot for discussion, sharing experiences, or
> > impromptu 'lightening' talks or demos on using open source software.
> >
> > 1 talk from a school based practitioner: teacher or technician on using
> > Open Source in Education - for teaching and learning or supporting
> > teaching and learning.  (GIMP, Moodle, PHP, Linux, OpenOffice etc)
> >  
> > 1 talk from an open source developer on creating software or
> > participating in the community through bug reporting, documentation,
> > testing etc.
> >
> > or open source community member on supporting open source solutions or
> > training options, career info... etc.
> >
> > The idea is to build the kind of community for schools, that exists to
> > create the software itself. 
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >   
> 
> 
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