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Following the adventure of putting together an open source school: Albany Senior High School in Auckland, New Zealand. covers pedagogy, learning, software, hardware, learning management systems, libraries and anything else I feel like talking about.
More on Albany High School - one of New Zealands newest schools - which is going Open Source.
One thing holding back the greater adoption of free software in this country is free software.
Schools could use Linux and other open source technologies, but the Education Ministry very kindly negotiates on their behalf with Microsoft for a licence covering all New Zealand state and integrated schools.
It's a gift that Albany Senior High School, which opened last year, looked at and rejected.
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Hat tip to Don Christie for bringing this to my attention: http://bigbluebutton.org/overviewThe big blue button is a collection of 14 different open source tools that allow teachers and learners to collaborate in online classes. It features video and audio conferencing, application sharing and chat. From what I've seen, it's absolutely amazing. I'll get some of our students to install it so we can have a play.
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Moodle 2.0 has been a long time coming: it's been two years in development, 70% of the code has been re-written and some great new features have been added.
I have over fifteen years experience in systems and network configuration and support. For most of that time I have been working with Open Source Software, and believe that Open Source software provides the best solutions for business, educational and personal use.
