It has been wonderful hearing all the feedback about how people are using OSS in their schools and personal lives.<\/p>\n
Through these conversations, I am curious to know if people are using or exploring open source out of their own initiative or if people are encouraged <\/strong><\/em>to use open source by their school or workplace.<\/p>\n Many people have mentioned that their schools are making OSS (such as OpenOffice.org) available as it is more cost efficient, and many of you have mentioned that you are using several programs (such as GoogleDocs, Scratch and Prezi) in the classrooms.\u00a0 This made me wonder: how supportive are schools in using open source and how much support is given to the teachers who are using them?<\/p>\n Some of us also mentioned that although we like to help, we do not want to be the<\/strong> “tech guy”.\u00a0 I wonder if the “tech guys” are as fluent in working with OSS as we want them to be – and should we hold them responsible for learning OSS as part of their “tech support”?\u00a0 With so much open source out there – and maybe with my lack of tech savvy skills – I do not want to be one of them. =)<\/p>\n So – my question is – is there enough support out there or all we doing this because we’re amazing METers?\u00a0 I know I have strayed from our OSS vs PS conversation – but I think support is a factor that also determines the choice of choosing one over the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been wonderful hearing all the feedback about how people are using OSS in their schools and personal lives. Through these conversations, I am curious to know if people are using or exploring open source out of their own initiative or if people are encouraged to use open source by their school or workplace. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[6039],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod06-open-source","tag-m6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","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\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}