[TOS] tos Digest, Vol 11, Issue 12

[Stephen Jacobs]

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SUNY and Ithica Ed Tech Conferences, Frontiers in Education and OSSCON.

Don't think I personally have anything I can pitch at the first two.  These are aimed at getting colleges and universities to use new technologies.  Proposals that will likely work at these are ones that detail the use of Open Source tools in the classroom (teaching GIMP instead of Photoshop) or deploying OPen Office rather than MS software in labs, etc.  The OLPC course stuff isn't really a fit here unless (perhaps) I was actually teaching Python vs another programming language.

FIE and OSSCON are better targets to talk about what's happening in my classroom.  I submitted stuff to both tonight as the FIE proposal was due (and I've done stuff there before) and the OSSCON paper would just be a variation on the FIE one.  I also wanted something in just in case they didn't want to add a track this year.  Another thought re OSSCON is that they do have a "trends" designation and we might be able to convince them that TOS is a trend and get an "unofficial track" by submitting numerous proposals on TOS as a "trend" if a formal track wasn't possible this year.

SJ