Ofsted’s report on The Importance of ICT was published over a month ago, and was met with perhaps a degree of surprise at some of its criticisms about aspects of ICT provision in schools, most notably for higher attaining and older pupils. There’s much in the report to strengthen the case for greater use, and indeed development, of open source software in schools.
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PHP UK Conference 2009
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27/02/2009 PHP London are pleased to announce their 4th annual UK PHP conference, building on the success of previous events and accommodating the continual growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry.
Help Desk and Resource Booking at Dixons City Academy
By John Hammond - Posted on December 9th, 2008
Using OneOrZero to mannage help desk support and MRBS for resource booking has greatly simplified network administration at this 1000 student academy.
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Blogging in Spanish with Wordpress at Nottingham High
By Jose Picardo - Posted on December 5th, 2008
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.
Social networking with Elgg at Alton Convent
By John Hammond - Posted on December 5th, 2008
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'.
Drupal for Alton Convent School's Website
By jamesd - Posted on December 5th, 2008
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.
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Course Management with Moodle at Perins
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.
