[SFD-discuss] FLOSS educational programmes

[xolani Ndlovu]

On 13/10/2007, xolani Ndlovu <xolanimart at gmail.com> wrote:
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> hie eveyone
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> are there any educational programmes that teach computing short courses
> using FLOSS products ,programmes like ICDL and others?if not,
> OpenSourceBulawayo and others are going to be working on a parallel or
> alternative  educational programme to ICDL that will teach  short computer
> courses using FLOSS products only since ICDL and other short cources in
> ZIMBABWE are only taught using Microsoft products only.As we
> were discussing on how we can get companies and institutions to use Floss
> we realized that companies send their employees to do ICDL so that  they can
> use computers at their work places.
> so with  programmes like these compinies can switch and get their people
> to do the programmes.if there are such programmes please let me now so
> that we save time work on getting them done in zimbabwe too.One of the
> pioneers (KUDAKWASHE ) of FLOSS in Zimbabwe has set a framework on the
> programme equivalent to ICDL it goes like this:In the meantime, I hereby
> volunteer to host the wiki on FLOSS-based
> ICDL
> course material here:
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> http://www.rukanda.com/wiki/index.php?title=International_Computer_Driving_License_%28ICDL%29on_Free/Libre_Open_Sourse_Software_%28FLOSS%29
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> Everybody, feel free to add content to this wiki. The only conditions
> are that:
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>    1. All ICDL practical lessons or HOWTOs on this wiki must use FLOSS;
>    2. Every ICDL lesson that you add to this wiki must be linked to the
>       appropriate ICDL module, category, skill set element and task
>       item. These must be quoted at the begining of the lesson or
> HOWTO;
>    3. Use of screen capture graphics is encouraged as a way to make it
>       easier for the learner to follow the practical lessons. However,
>       care must be taken to make sure that the graphics are not too
>       large or don't have too high a resolution to make it impossible
>       for people in Zimbabwe to be able to access them due to low
> bandwidth.
>    4. Before using the wiki, learn wikiwiki annotation first.
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> The ICDL syllabus is attached to this message and will be available via
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> a link on the wiki.
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