This session will give both an overview of some technical details of Buckinghamshire's implementation of Moodle and examples of how the open nature of the software has fostered collaboration between individuals, schools & local authorities.
Issue 2, September, of the OSS Watch Newsletter is now available [pdf] and includes news, articles, analysis and events and a theme of contributing to OSS projects.
I'm working with quite a number of schools on http://myschoolclosures.com
The idea behind the project is that parents and teachers can be notified in the case of a closure, registration can be done from inside of a school learning platform/website and all school info is available using the api.
A Presentation with lots of scope for Open Discussion.
Hosted by Digital Freedom in Education and Youth, a group of technologically adept young people, this session will cover getting technically adept young people into the real world technology industry, how schools can help technologically adept young people develop their skills, how free software can help young people and what Digital Freedom in Education and Youth is all about.
As recommended by Miles Berry, I am offering to present a pair of sequential sessions, based around the Poplog system, available here www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/freepoplog.html
The first release of the full ScholarPack MIS is due before the unconference. ScholarPack has been in use at Skegness Grammar School for 4 years now. For 2 years it has been a total replacement for proprietary systems and has had a thorough test in that time. It is now ready for release.
The proposed presentation will give an overview of the functionality included in the release package and a roadmap for the future of the software.
The OpenEducationDisc is currently undergoing development for its next version. We have a strong line up of software focused on the national curriculum and beyond. We are looking to add a few programs mentioned previously on opensourceschools such as Numpty Physics and Scratch. if you would like to suggest any other software that you think teachers and students in Key Stage 1-5 would find useful please drop a reply to this thread.
Over the last year we have virtualised a lot of infrastructure using the free VMWARE server, we chose this over Xen at the time as it has better support for Virtualising Microsoft platforms.
Towards next year I am looking to further expand our virtualisation project. It would cost us around £6k to get a more robust version of vmware though.(ie live server migration, rather than scripted machine hibernation and moving)
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