According to a UK website The Inquirer Microsoft lawyers have stopped Becta, the UK’s technology quango for schools, from publishing the details of the three-year megadeal it agreed with Microsoft in April. It would appear that Becta refused to satisfy a Freedom of Information request made by the Inquirer for details of …
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I first noticed this blog on fsdaily. Lots of really good info so far.
Some titles:
10 Reasons why Free Software and GNU/Linux should be used in schools
Explaining Software Freedom to a Beginner
Make sure you check out A High School Student’s Views on Software Freedom.
Heres the latest 5 items from his rss feed:
The J8 Summit is the youth parallel event to the G8 Summit, which since 2005 gives children and young people the opportunity to articulate and present their opinions and views, concerns and recommendations on important issues and problems affecting them and those which require future action from G8 leaders.
Junior 8 Summit 2008 is being held parallel to the G8 summit of world leaders …
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Chris has been fairly busy this week and has set up a micro-blogging site on superuser using Laconica. Its an open source micro-blogging tool written in PHP. Laconica was created as a direct response of a need to create an open source, distributed alternative to Twitter. At the moment Laconica has a basic microblog …
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Chris introduced me to a pretty cool game called Tremulous. Its a free and open source, team-based first person shooter. The game features two teams, humans and aliens, and the aim is to build and protect a base. I am not sure I quite got the hang of it, I managed to shoot and kill Jack, who happened to be on my team….oops.
Tremulous is licensed under the …
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I was browsing the web and found an interesting article about an intranet database dubbed OneSchool, which will profile Queensland’s 480,000 public school students enrolled from Prep to Year 12. It will contain photographs, personal details, career aspirations, off-campus activities and student performance records.
Some parents are outraged and concerned about the possibility that it will make their children vulnerable to paedophiles. Others worry that hackers will target …
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