crossover office writes/reads hebrew doc/ppt files.
and if it's a matter of moving them from word..
well openoffice works on windows as well no?:)
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Edu in linux":
> > > Hi Ely,
> > > You are wasting your time. Israeli K12 has no use for Linux. Been there,
> > > done that. If the kids don't have the same OS at school as at home then
> > > forget it. If it doesn't run MS Word, then forget it.
> > > Regards,
> >
> > I admit it's been a few years since I went to school (I left highschool
> > 11 years ago), but my experience was completely different from what you
> > describe.
> >
> > In elementary school (6th grade) we learned arithmetic on a computer
> > for one hour a week; That computer had some unknown OS that we had no
> > access to - we only used the arithmetic-teaching software itself.
>
> Hi Nadav,
> A bit has changed in eleven years. I suspect that you experience is no
> longer relevant. All the schools have Windows. The kids have windows at
> home. The Windows vocabulary has entered our daily Hebrew speech. My kids
> (all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments in
> .doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife
> is in a masters program at Touro College and Beit Morasha where the
> homework assignments are distributed in Word and the homework must be
> submitted in Word. I suggest that you actually go try to talk to these
> people about Linux and see what happens.
>
> There is also persistent institutional resistance to Linux at varous
> places in the relevant ministry.
> Regards,
>
> - yba
>
>
> >
> > In 10th grade we learned BASIC (!) on antique Apple II machines (!!) -
> > both the language and the machine and its OS were almost obsolete at the
> > time, and NOBODY had these at home. In fact, most of the kids probably did
> > not have a computer at home at all! But the ideas we learned were (or
> > at least supposed to be) universal.
> >
> > In 11th grade we learned Turbo Pascal on DOS. Windows (3.1) was already
> > available, and common, at the time, but it wasn't considered "pchitut kavod"
> > not to study on it.
> >
> > We never studied MS-Word, or any word processor, when I was at school.
> > Kids were free to use it (or whatever word processor they had) to write
> > schoolwork, but nobody tried to force a specific set of tools on them.
> >
> >
> >
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