Resources for Schools
Our objective for 2008 is to better support schools to host Software Freedom Day events. For schools already making use of FOSS, it is a great way to help their community understand what and why they are doing this and to involve their FOSS communities in the process. This page is for collating media resources that could be useful to schools and SFD teams generally. Please feel free to add your ideas and resources to this space.
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"Open Source Victoria has prepared the following report for the primary and secondary education sector. Within it, we have researched and provided a synopsis on a range of software which we believe will be beneficial to educators and students. We have also included a large list of other open source applications." |
PDF 13MB |
Creative Commons licence. Copy, mirror and redistribute at will |
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The UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network has published a series of primers on Free and Open Source Software. This one, aimed at the education sector is an excellent introduction. "This primer covers the use of FOSS from schools to universities. It provides a brief overview of how it can help in setting up the IT infrastructure and administration of educational institutions and considers software (mainly proprietary) which is now used as the basis for IT curricula and alternative FOSS which is available." |
PDF 659KB |
Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode Copy, mirror and redistribute at will. Include this link to the license. |
FOSS oriented education talk lists
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Schoolforge.net |
"SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education. We advocate the use of open texts and lessons, open curricula, free software and open source in education." "An open forum for discussing topics related to education, FLOSS, and technology trends." |
FOSS oriented educational blogs
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