Open Source

The Open Source Playbook: School District Marketing Strategies for Failure...

Open Source Solutions present great opportunities for teachers and students. Open Source benefits include teaching and learning tools, measurable teacher and student progress accelerators and strategies that focus upon instructional improvement targets.

Teachers to IT Departments: You have Professional Development Homework

One of the reasons that the Technology Integration movement failed to provide a Return on Investment(ROI) commensurate with the huge amounts of money that was spent is that adequate professional development of the right kind was seldom funded or delivered.

Teachers to IT Departments: You have Network and Back-End Programming Homework

It is an ethical question. When teachers know that students can't (or won't) complete homework assignments, should teachers "pile" the homework on anyway?

Teachers to IT Departments: "You have Homework"

Every teacher, unless maybe a teacher who has been driven under a rock (or into deep depression) by the stress of high-stakes testing; knows that the integration of technology is important.

Teachers to Open Source Advocates: "You have Homework!"

There are technology advocates that want to replace the software that is used in most schools with "no-cost" software. This kind of software is called "Open Source."

Open Admin for Schools: Are Any US School Districts Using this Free Program?

Convincing school administrators to save money should be easy, right?

So, what about a school district and campus administration program that could save a school district multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Why not replace expensive school administration programs with this free, Open Source alternative?

Compile your Own eBooks: 100% Free for Classroom Use

Would you like to create your own eBooks for classroom use?

"Curriki:" A Goofy Name for a Valuable New Open Source Teaching Resource

The Open Source Movement has a new player with deep pockets (i.e., lots of money) and a wish to leave an legacy in the world of education.

Project Gutenberg and eReader™: Free Electronic Books

Project Gutenberg and eReader™ are not exactly Open Source, but both offer access to free eBooks.

"Content is King" on the Internet, but content for teachers is often expensive...oftern obscenely so.

Donation Coder: Not Exactly Open Source...
But a Great Deal for Teachers

Teachers like "Free". In fact, no cost is the only reasonable strategy that teachers have before dipping into their own pockets for necessities for their classrooms.