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Open Source Computing

What follows are notes from a brief presentation to the Computing at School working group meeting in Cambridge this morning.

 It has often seemed to me, and thus I’m sure others, that open source tools and methods provide a diverse and fertile ecosystem in which the craft of programming might be mastered and computer science studied. My own discipline is education rather than computing, but I hope some of the following aspects might illustrate the opportunities which open source offers for those concerned to encourage computing at school. 

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Ofsted and Open Source

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.

PHP UK Conference 2009

Date: 
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.

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Help Desk and Resource Booking at Dixons City Academy

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

School crestNottingham 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.

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