“Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment. The current version of Edubuntu is aimed at classroom use, and future versions of Edubuntu will expand to other educational usage, such as university use. This is what the [...]
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Edubuntu: Linux for Young Human Beings
Posted in November 2007 on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From OpenOffice.org (.odt) to MS Word (.doc): Some conversion issues
Posted in November 2007 on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How to convert documents
Documents created in OpenOffice.org Writer can be saved in .doc format and shared with MS Office users. There are three ways to do this.
First, set OpenOffice.org to automatically save documents in Microsoft Office format. Writer (.odt) will be saved in Word format ( .doc) [...]
Open Content for Learning
Posted in November 2007 on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Schools can benefit hugely from open content. At a time when textbooks are scarce in both quantity and quality, schools should once and for all explore open content not only as a means to cope with the lack of resources, but also to open doors for new ways of teaching and learning.
What is open [...]
Creating a hotlinked PDF file in OOo Writer
Posted in November 2007 on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Whether you are a teacher who develops course notes and homework and makes them available to students online, a decision maker at a government agency that wants to make documents and reports accessible to the general public via the Internet, or an individual who writes [...]
OpenOffice.org Calc and MS Excel: What’s the Difference?
Posted in October 2007 on December 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
OpenOffice.org and MS Excel are similar in many ways. For starters, the user interface, which includes the icons, menus and toolbars are very much alike in appearance and purpose (except for MS Excel 2007) .
The list-making , sorting and filtering capabilities are comparable . Rows and columns can be shown , [...]
8 simple rules for switching to OpenOffice.org
Posted in November 2007 on December 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s been 8 months since I first released my first article on open source software. Since then, I have received quite a number of inquiries concerning Open Office.org, Linux, and other open source applications. Needless to say, a lot of people are getting interested. However, this interest does not necerssarily translate to [...]
The OpenOffice.org Navigator tool
Posted in November 2007 on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
You have just submitted your textbook draft to a publisher, who suggests that you move a few chapters around. This sounds very easy, you think to yourself. “ I will email it to you by tomorrow morning” , you proudly reply. Once you sit down to edit the draft, you [...]
OOo LilyPond – the macro for musicians
Posted in October 2007 on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Proud as we Filipinos are over Manny Pacquiao’s victory last Sunday, someone else delivered that much expected knockout punch in the boxing arena. Kyla , beautifully dressed in a white terno, with not a single hair out of place, did a perfect rendition of the national anthem, giving Mexican and American counterparts [...]
OpenOffice.org 2.3 released
Posted in October 2007 on December 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
OpenOffice.org 2.3 has “an extensive array of new features and enhancements to all its core components, and protects users from newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It is a major release and all users should download it”, according to the OpenOffice.org website. The look and feel of OpenOffice.org is similar to previous versions [...]
IBM’s Lotus Symphony is now free
Posted in September 2007 on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
IBM’s Lotus Symphony is a software suite that includes IBM Lotus Documents , IBM Lotus Spreadsheets and IBM Lotus Presentations. It includes a spell checker, Instant Corrections and a Stylist that creates and modifies styles for paragraphs, individual characters, frames, and pages. The [...]
