http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/ TAS-IT: IT in education, Tasmania Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:57:33 GMT Meijers, Margaret T http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4246 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4246 Zoho www.zoho.com is India's answer to Google apps. Of particular interest is the Zoho Notebook that enables the user to build and share pages consisting of a Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:20:14 GMT ken price http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4245 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4245 As Open Office was number 10 on the TASITE Top Ten free tools list, perhaps those who are interested might want to attend our free PD session in Kingston next Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:42:53 GMT Douramanis, Taki P http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4244 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4244 As an ECE teacher, teaching MS Word has always been problematic and with MSO 2007 on the horizon I am expecting the worse but since purchasing MO 2007 through Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:47:36 GMT Neal, Danny B http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4243 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4243 I'd still recommend OO Kids are happy to use it and if staff were a bit more conducive to change we could do away with Microsoft forever! OO does have a Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:34:19 GMT Fluck, Andrew http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4242 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4242 Open Office is part of the standard lab image throughout UTAS Faculty of Education. Yes, Microsoft Office 2003 is there as well! - A ... Contact details: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:23:33 GMT Fluck, Andrew http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4241 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4241 I believe the scripting in OO is Java-script, not VBA. However, Wikipedia refers to OpenOffice.org Basic. "OpenOffice.org Basic is a programming language Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:10:32 GMT Richard Lawler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4240 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4240 A couple of thoughts from me - looking at it from a staff perspective not student-wise: - In terms of a personal information management tool, I still Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:44:10 GMT Gorsuch, Gary I http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4239 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4239 My thoughts... I bought my copy of MS office for $32 as DoE staff. My daughter got hers for $87 as she is a student. My wife got hers included on her Dell Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:35:34 GMT ken price http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4238 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4238 Hi Chris, I recall running a TASITE session on Open Office a few years back. Some other important features of OO for schools are - when schools require Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:22:57 GMT Chris Bracken http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4237 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4237 Hi, I will be attending CONASTA (Conference of Australian Science Teachers Association) in Launceston this weekend and will be presenting a workshop (with the Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:46:11 GMT Davis, Cheryl A http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4236 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4236 the top ten free software and online tools for education in Tasmania Selected by a wide range of teachers across Tasmania and interstate, these top ten free Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:22:40 GMT ken price http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4235 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4235 NECC is arguably the largest educational computing conference in the world. As most people can't attend in person you may be interested in these online aspects Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:40:18 GMT ken price http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4234 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4234 The School of IT at the University of Sydney is running a programming challenge for high school students over 5 weeks in term 3, 2009 - starting on Monday 10 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:23:42 GMT ken price http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4233 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4233 Hi all, this may be of interest to some students. - What does IT mean to you? - How can IT solve the world?s problems? - How does IT build connections Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:32:10 GMT ken price http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4232 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tas-it/message/4232 http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/papers/SICTAS-nsi.pdf This report comes from the Strategic ICT Advisory Service, funded by