Surely schools could use something like WordPress?
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>From: Will Bickerstaff <will.bickerst...@gmail.com>
>To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>
>Sent: Saturday, 11 June 2011, 14:39
>Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites
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>On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM, J Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I know I slate the state of teaching quite often, but it's not
>>teachers who upload stuff onto websites - it's admin staff. Primary
>>schools, for example, have a school secretary who normally has to do
>>pretty much everything (and quite often they only work part time).
>>Collect dinner money, enter register data, phone parents, send out
>>letters - and one of the other tasks is to post newsletters onto the
>>school website. When you think about school secretaries you don't
>>think about people with technological interest, and they certainly
>>aren't going to spend the time reformatting a newsletter in HTML
>>format once they've made it in Word (or even worse, Publisher). Hence,
>>save as a PDF, done.
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>I couldn't agree more. PDF if by far the easiest option for many schools and
>probably the most widely viewable format. Whats more interesting is the
>variety of tools schools are using to create the PDFs, our local schools
>appear to all be using different tools, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher,
>Serif Page Plus etc. At least they have the sense to convert from these to a
>largely universal format. I couldn't imagine or wouldn't expect a school to be
>converting a well laid out newsletter produced in dedicated publishing
>software which is no doubt primarily designed for print into an equally
>appealing HTML representation.
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