[Opensource] OpenSource for Schools Meeting?

[Donna Benjamin]

Hello ????

Is anyone interested in coming to this meeting on the 21st?
That's Wednesday next week.

4:30 - 6:30  Wed 21 March
Westall Secondary College
Rosebank Avenue, Clayton South, Victoria, 3169

Before I confirm interstate speakers it would be good to know if anyone
other than Roland and me will be there?

Otherwise - I'll postpone and we can try again next term?

cheers
Donna

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:06 +1100, Donna Benjamin wrote:
> 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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