4. O Brave New World
• Becta
• Harnessing Technology Grant
• BSF
5. “When we decided to do a
microprocessor on our own, I made two
great decisions - I gave them two things
which National, Intel and Motorola had
never given their design teams: the first
was no money; the second was no
people. The only way they could do it was
to keep it really simple.”
Hermann Hausser
8. Ofsted
“Compare performance with others to see where
improvements could be made.”
The vast majority of schools have invested heavily in computer
networks, running expensive commercial operating systems
and standard ‘office’ suites of software. In these schools, the
annual licensing costs for each networked computer are eating
up a significant proportion of the ICT budget, restricting further
expansion… Open source operating systems and software are
now a reliable and cost-effective solution, enabling the few
schools that choose this route to achieve excellent value for
money. A few schools have used open source software for
establishing a virtual learning environment, enabling them to
obtain several years’ worth of development with no licensing
costs.
9. Ofsted
‘‘Challenge why and how a service is being provided.”
All the schools in the sample had chosen to purchase a
package of ‘office’ software that is standard in the business
world. On the one hand, this has the benefit of introducing
students to software they are likely to encounter in the future;
on the other, it may actually be hindering the development of
their skills. … In the small number of schools that had
deliberately chosen to provide a mixture of operating systems,
students met a greater variety of software and were better
equipped to cope with rapidly changing technologies.
40. What kind of a school is Notre Dame?
• Outstanding Catholic comprehensive school 1400
11-18 year olds
• Comprehensive intake 5% FSM 20% on SEN register
(9% SA 7% SA+)
• As we draw children from all over the city don’t have
the ‘post code skew’ (positive or negative) of other
city schools but are truly comprehensive
• Technology College since 1995
• Ex-grant maintained
• Hub of the Hallam CLC (City Learning Centre)
• Also have Leading Edge status and Second
Specialism (Humanities)
• National Support School
• Entrepreneurial, innovative and risk taking
41. What do we use?
• Joomla based web site as a portal- log in integrated with
MicroSoft Windows Active Directory usernames/ passwords
• Includes features like flipping book e-magazine
• Exchange Server/ Outlook email for all staff and students
• Integration with IP telephony giving features like web
access to voice mail
• Management Information System: Serco Facility CMIS
• VLE Moodle (with a link to MIS) and Mahara e-portfolios
• Gleamtech web access to ‘my documents’ and all shared
directories such as curriculum resources, staff admin folders
with key word search tool (without need for tagging)
.
65. The Foundations
Edubuntu is built on Ubuntu which provides:
Package management
Automatic updates
Networking
Integration with Active Directory
Terminal Services
Access to thousands of general purpose
applications
66.
67.
68. Community
Global community of educators working with
and working on Edubuntu
Communication via mailing lists and weekly
real time meetings on IRC
Developer summit every six months
69. Web Live
Free trial on the web
http://edubuntu.org/vmmanager
Virtual cloud based desktop
Lasts for two hours
70. Where can we take it?
Edubuntu is a global project
It is open to contributions
We can adapt it to the UK environment
Translate to English converting -ize to -ise
National Curriculum
75. To find out more…
opensourceschools.org.uk
@mberry, @dwillmot20, @paulhaigh, @alanbelltolc
admin@opensourceschools.org.uk
School Leaders Conference, 12th April
Techie Unconference, Summer