“Yeah, we use a lot of open source stuff, I quite like the philosophy,” said the network manager of a college I have recently worked in. She then listed the individual pieces of software that keep the systems running, the e-mail routing and the web content hosted. Her manager (on the SMT) naturally had no [...]
Having listened to much of the noise being generated about the Asus eeePC I finally gave in and bought one. Like many others I have to say that I am impressed. I needed a small gadget that I could take on the road, has a proper keyboard and a good display. The Asus seems to [...]
Moodle still seems to be centre stage in the ongoing debate over the place of open source software in education. This is primarily due to the knot Becta appear to be typing themselves up in with regard to the learning platform framework and the inconvenient fact that many schools (and LAs) seem to like Moodle. [...]