There is a new Free Software for Students disc available, featuring the latest versions of some old favourites and adding in some new ones. Teachers and students of Film or Media may find the newly Open-sourced "Lightworks" a great Pro-end tool. Please note it will need a fairly beefy machine to run.
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Schoolstech.org.uk wants your input
Naace and the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), working with the Department for Education, have created a site to encourage a public discussion on the implications of new technology developments in English schools, building on the impetus created by Micheal Gove's speech at BETT.
Tuxedu
By Optymystic - Posted on August 25th, 2011
Active Directory Integration of Linux Clients A worked example
By nerak99 - Posted on May 3rd, 2011
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For the impatient, the link to where I have documented this process is at the end of this post.
Those of us who have to live in a mixed environment of Operating systems do not usually have the advantage of a friendly set of linux servers to do authentication, file and print services etc. for native Linux clients.
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Opensource and Education
By tbateson - Posted on April 27th, 2011
I came accross a great site called opensource.com, which I think has been listed on here before. It has several categories incuding Business, Education and Government. I was drawn to one particular article in the education section which can be accessed via this link.
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SketchChair
By dwillmot20 - Posted on April 21st, 2011
The furniture designer in me loves this idea.
open-source software that takes a sketch of a chair design and turns it into a set of files that can use a Computer controlled router and make your design.
or run it on a craft-robo knife cutter and make a model, make loads of models!
Watch a video
PhD applications open for Schools learning from Schools, closing date 25th February
By Hannah - Posted on February 15th, 2011
Hi All,
Just come accross this PhD and thought it might be of interest to some on here:
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Presentation at BETT 2011
By dwillmot20 - Posted on January 13th, 2011
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our presentation at the BETT show today. We were very encouraged to be booked up solid and to hear such positive comments as " An excellent presentation!", "definitely worth coming to hear!" and "Please can we have a copy of your slides?" on which point, we are more than happy to oblige.
What's your teaser trailer for open source and student engagement?
By dwillmot20 - Posted on December 8th, 2010
What's your teaser trailer for open source and student engagement?
"5 minutes. A ballroom full of administrators, faculty, and students looking for ways to transform student engagement in engineering education. They may have heard of open source before (vaguely), but you've got 20 slides to convince them that it's actionable. What would you tell them?"
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Can Professors Teach Open Source?
By dwillmot20 - Posted on December 8th, 2010
Ok, this is aimed more at Higher Ed than schools, but can help to keep a bit of perspective.
From, http://opensource.com/education/10/4/can-professors-teach-open-source
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