Hearts & Minds

From Schoolforge-UK

What channels are available to influence the individual decision-makers within schools?
Which benefits and values of FLOSS are most likely to appeal to them?

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Contents 1 School Governors 2 Head Teachers 3 IT Teachers 4 ICT Co-ordinators 5 Network Managers 6 Students 7 Parents 8 What Schoolforge-UK can do

School Governors

• National Association of School Governors
• Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools

Head Teachers

• National Association of Head Teachers
• Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
• Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools
• National College of School Leadership

IT Teachers

• National Association of Advisors for Computers in Education (NAACE)
• Association for ICT in Education (ACITT)

ICT Co-ordinators

Provide routes for workable migration strategies to enable schools to make the transition to FLOSS. Some work might usefully be done in identifying the packages which could be used to deliver the various units of the DfES model schemes of work for ICT at KS1, 2 and 3, thus demonstrating that the whole of the ICT curriculum can be delivered using Open Souce software, such work could form part of the OpenCurriculum project here on SchoolForge. The Free, Libre and Open Source Software solutions for Education list provides a good starting point for such work.

Network Managers

Students

Use the power of open source projects such as Wikipedia and OpenOffice.org to promote learning through participation. Engage students in software development through beta testing and bug reporting.

Parents

• National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations

What Schoolforge-UK can do

Provide a structure for disseminating resources, documenting them and identifying specific needs.