Hi guys, On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 19:44 +0000, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 09:37 -0000, Jonathan Lees wrote: > > OO is offered as an alternative to MS Office, it sees about 2% usage > > from students that have it at home. Our IT teachers will not touch it > > as it involves rewriting worksheets for students which have all been > > based on MS Office. However whilst Writer and Spreadsheet does'nt > > cause problems, the database package does. [...]
Are worksheets and training materials something that we could work on as a community? I played around with the idea a little this morning, but I don't know if what I came up with is much use to anyone [1]. > This is the problem. > > The kids are *not* being *taught* about word processors, spreadsheets or > databases. They are being *trained* to use MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access > etc. > > That's a very different thing, in my opinion, and not at all good. Learning *about* word processors and spreadsheets has little value to employers - learning to *use* them is much more valuable, and I think that's where the focus has been placed. Thanks, Phil [1] - http://philbull.googlepages.com/SASpreadsheetBasics.tar.gz -- Phil Bull http://www.launchpad.net/people/philbull -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
