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On Thursday 17 May 2007 12:33, Mark Jose wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:24, Tom Potts wrote: > > http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome > > > > Tom te tom te tom > > Some interesting "partners" there - Sun Microsystems,the UN,the UK's DfES > etc The site is a little vague I felt with regard to what it actually > offers. After a few minutes of wandering around, I spotted the resources > link. Being a governor at a local school, and having an interest in > science, I clicked the resources link and went to look at their science > stuff. > Various resources there - but, sadly, many (nearly all) are in Microsoft > Word .doc format. > I suppose this is to cater for teachers/educationalists who only have > access to Microsoft riddled machines, but I am a little surprised that the > .docs were not also available in other formats. Yes, we know that OOo can > open .docs, but it is reinforcing the idea that any document must be in the > MS Office format. > Even more annoying was the discovery that files which are indicated as > "bin" (binary) files seem to all be .ppt files - the Microsoft Powerpoint > presentations. Horse,Gift and Mouth are words that spring to mind... Now as I understand it this is an open source setup. So download the office docs, load then into OO and save in ODF format and upload them back. It should be possible to automate most of that too! > > As they used to write on my school reports - could do better! with a little help! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html