{"id":2919,"date":"2009-10-24T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T20:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2009-10-24T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T20:27:13","slug":"2919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/2009\/10\/24\/2919\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about FOSS\/OSS in Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1.53846em;margin-left: 0px;padding: 0px\"><strong>Blog Question: Would you support implementing FOSS\/OSS in your work environment? In your post outline your environment and give some reasons why or why not based on what you have read and viewed in this presentation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1.53846em;margin-left: 0px;padding: 0px\">Hello Everyone:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1.53846em;margin-left: 0px;padding: 0px\">After having read Module 6 and completed the \u2018Open Source Technologies\u2019 presentation, I would support implementing FOSS\/OSS in my work environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1.53846em;margin-left: 0px;padding: 0px\">I am a middle school teacher in the public education system. Here, I would want my colleagues, the school, and the students to use FOSS\/OSS as an effective way of engaging in the teaching-learning process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1.53846em;margin-left: 0px;padding: 0px\">Also, because FOSS\/OSS is gaining in use and in popularity, all three parties would be armed with knowledge, experience, and skill with FOSS\/OSS, which would complement their knowledge, experience, and skill with PS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1.53846em;margin-left: 0px;padding: 0px\">Indeed, using both FOSS\/OSS and PS would allow all three parties to decide respectively which they prefer, depending on the need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1.53846em;margin-left: 0px;padding: 0px\">Cheers,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1.53846em;margin-left: 0px;padding: 0px\">Barrie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog Question: Would you support implementing FOSS\/OSS in your work environment? In your post outline your environment and give some reasons why or why not based on what you have read and viewed in this presentation. Hello Everyone: After having read Module 6 and completed the \u2018Open Source Technologies\u2019 presentation, I would support implementing FOSS\/OSS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod06-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}