So what do you think wins out- the advantages or the disadvantages and why?
Do you personally or professionally use any open source software (besides Moodle)
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Jimmy, Josh and Jim at Mackinac Island
Great books for 4th-6th graders of which you may not have heard
- • Bartimaeus Trilogy, by Jonathan Stroud (6th grade-adult)
- • Bone books (#1-6 released), by Jeff Smith
- • Deltora Quest series, by Emily Rodda
- • Fairy Realm series, by Emily Rodda
- • High Seas Trilogy, by Iain Lawrence
- • Ranger's Apprentice Series, by John Flanagan
- • Sammy Keyes mystery series, by Wendelin VanDraanen
- • The Five Ancestors series, by Jeff Stone
- • The Mailbox, by Audrey Shafer
Beautiful Kalee, with Josh and Jimmy at Dad's Master's graduation
Josh playing baseball
Jimmy playing baseball
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- Christine Rinehart
- I am a former paramedic, and former customer service representative for a hospital, turned teacher eleven years ago. I taught high school social studies courses for seven years and now am a certified library media specialist with a master's in educational technology. My step-daughter is 22 and attends Syracuse University as a journalism major in her senior year. My 14 year old son Jimmy is kind, well-mannered, smart, a voracious reader, and a baseball phenom. My 10 year old son Josh is laid-back, kind, well-mannered, a math whiz, a lover of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, and also a baseball phenom. Jim, my husband, is the emergency medical manager for the 9 counties in northwestern Michigan and extremely laid-back, quiet, incredibly creative and my best friend.
4 comments:
Christine,
I think that open-source software has a lot of advantages. For one thing, it's free (always a plus) and since you have access to the code, if the software isn't exactly what you want, and you have the know-how, you can modify it to fit your needs. It's a win-win in my opinion - but of course, you know that old saying about opinions... :)
Hi. I have used DotNetNuke quite a bit. It is an open-source Web-based portal software. My personal Web site is run on the DNN framework.
Open-source is great, if there is a well established community of programmers behind it that are able to update it and support it. However, if not, then most do not have the ability to fix issues that come up when using open source software.
Tim
Christine,
Your presentation gave me several new ideas and applications in the world of open source software - great job!
I have used...for my project of converting powepoint to flash, an open source product that was free on the web. Moodle happened to be one of the open source solutions I put on my resource page.
Al
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