On 13/10/2007, xolani Ndlovu <xolanimart@gmail.com> wrote:
hie eveyone
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_L...
Everybody, feel free to add content to this wiki. The only conditions are that:
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.
The ICDL syllabus is attached to this message and will be available via
a link on the wiki.
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