Open Source Schools and Open Forum Europe, supporters of open source and open standards, have joined forces to create something rather special for this year's BETT.
We hope that teachers, techies and leaders who are successfully using open source software in education will join us to share their experience and expertise in an informal, friendly environment at the Open Source Café on Stand L20 in the Supporting Next Generation Zone (formerly the Policy in Practice Zone). In open source barcamp style, there will be at least 24 slots throughout the four days for community members and supporters to host 30 minute sessions in a manner of their choosing; this could be a presentation, workshop or round table discussion. We plan to film sessions for later upload to YouTube etc.
Update: Press release below
Update: session sign-up wiki online, plus further details.
Open Source Schools will also be presenting a BETT seminar on 'Creative Computing with Open Source' at 15:45 on Wednesday 13th January. We will showcase a number of case studies about how school students are learning to program and contribute to the development of open source projects using a range of free, downloadable tools. Examples range from Scratch programming in primary schools, through Greenfoot in the secondary curriculum to the development of modules in PHP for web-based applications such as Moodle.
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I would be interested in leading a session, possibly on the saturday, probably to do with freesoftwareforstudents CD but could work out more details with anyone else if need be.
I could host on a session on how we have integrated Moodle to our school MIS, Parental Access and Accessing Windows Shares for accessing files.
We also use several other OSS tools in the school and can provide details of how we provide VFM for via OSS
I am there on the Thursday.
I'd be interested in giving a presentation on Drupal and showcasing major education websites that use it.
Hi,
Could someone please confirm what software is available for the presentations ie Linux/Windows 7. Open office/power point etc.
Will flash be installed ?
Thanks,
Tim
I believe we'll have a Karmic Ubuntu Linux laptop, which should have OO.o as standard. You'd be able to plug another machine into the screen if you needed to.
There are, by the way, a few places still available on the programme for Friday or Saturday.
Thanks to everyone that helped run the OSS cafe at BETT, as it was one of the highlights of my trip down to BETT.
Great to meet so many of you for the first time outside of a virtual context :)
Many Thanks,
Tim