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"OSS Watch have teamed up with Torchbox, Nearly Done and The Apache Software Foundation to run a BarCamp in Oxford on April. The fun will start on the evening of April 4th with a geeky meal, the real action commences at 10am on Sunday the 5th (add your name to the list of attendees)."
This article is reproduced, with permission, from the website of OSS-Watch, a project providing information and guidance on open source software for FE and HE. Its messages are equally applicable to schools.
Using OneOrZero to mannage help desk support and MRBS for resource booking has greatly simplified network administration at this 1000 student academy.
Nottingham High's use of open source blogging platform Wordpress goes far beyond student blogs, using this flexible software as a complex content management system to deliver educational content and manage digital resources.
Alton Convent School have used the Elgg social networking platform to provide their Year 6 pupils with blogs, social networks, tagging, e-portfolios and personal profiles, all within a safe, monitiored 'walled garden'.
Using Drupal and Gallery2, Alton Convent School has provided a portal for the school's extended community to keep up to date with events in school, access the school's prospectus and additional information and browse some of the school's digital photo collection. These open source programs make it possible for a team of staff to share the work of keeping the website up to date.
Perins School is an 11 to 16 mixed comprehensive school in a small town in Hampshire, 6 miles from Winchester with 1000 pupils. Four years ago the school decided to introduce a Moodle VLE for the school to support teaching and learning. The initial decision to try Moodle came from the headteacher following her attendance at a conference at which Moodle was discussed.
