4 Feb 2003 17:13
[OS:N:] Just a note on open office in high schools.
Chris Spencer <CSpencer <at> CAIT.org>
2003-02-04 16:13:18 GMT
2003-02-04 16:13:18 GMT
You might all appreciate the note I sent to a list of tech people from most of the high schools in south/central IL. Feel free to use any part of it. If you want to use it in your situation. It's in response to a specific argument that in K-12 the charge of the school is to prepare students to go into the work world. Specificly "It is the responsibility of our schools (and therefore our responsibility) to give our children the skills they need to live in the "real" world. In a small part, that includes training them to use the technology that is being used in the "real" world." Here was my response: Each of the people on this list is in a unique position of being able to influence the technology that will be used tomorrow as a standard. This is your right and your obligation. In this case I am suggesting that you are teaching the wrong standard for the future. Open Office is a better solution because of cost, open standards (documents can be freely interchanged with other applications from different vendors), and cross platform compatibility (Open Office works on any of the major platforms including Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX). Now you can justify what you are doing by teaching MS office. You can say to yourself "I am teaching the industry standard", "I am teaching the product with the best features", or "It's not my fault they are(Continue reading)
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