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I caught mention of the The Cloud Appreciation Society whilst driving with radio 4 on this morning - went to the website and thought it was a great resource whether for geography/science, art, poetry or philosophy - there’s even a bit of humour.

The ‘Doodle 4 Google - My Britain’ competition asks young people across the UK to design a doodle that represents what it means to be British today. The winning doodle, which will be displayed on the Google UK homepage for a day, will be seen by around 18 million people.

This is the first nationwide Doodle 4 Google competition and is open to every school in the UK.

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Futurelab (formally NESTA Futurelabs) has just published a report entitled ‘The potential of open source approaches for education‘.

For a while we have promoted the use of FLOSS, including such titles as GIMP, Firefox, Open Office to name three.

I still don’t think that many schools are willing to make the break from paying for software, they seem to believe that if it is free then it can’t be any good, or it isn’t Microsoft!

Leave a comment if your school is using any FLOSS and if they have given copies of it to their staff and students for home.

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