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Editorial
Free Software Can Save Budget Dollars
As this site has demonstrated for the last couple of years, free software works. Not one dollar has been spent by Cobb County or Lassiter High School or any booster club to support it. Not one. Nor has anyone paid anything for the software itself - it's free!This donated site runs on an eight-year-old server which supports a number of other applications and web sites. It uses a shared Internet connection. It works. It offers many more features and capabilities than the commercial blogging software currently bought and paid for by the school (although it could be configured - "dumbed down" - to do only what the blogging software does.) (Not to mention that there is free, open source blogging software available that is virtually a drop-in replacement for the commercial stuff...)County wide, taxpayers probably spend tens of thousands of dollars annually for commercial software that could be replaced by free, open source software that is as good as or better than the commercial options. Optional support for these open source applications is available locally. The savings realized by moving to open source solutions could be used to support vital needs - such as teachers' salaries - for which there is no substitute. Given the current and projected budget pressures, we should make the move to free software as soon as existing contract conditions will allow.
-- Your http://www.onlinelassiter.org parent sponsor.
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For a discussion about this editorial, please add your thoughts, comments, criticisms, squawks, etc. to the forum, "On Open Source Software"
"What is this 'Moodle' e-learning software stuff and why should we care?"
For Administrators & Educators
Here's a video, produced by and for educators and administrators, that tells the story of how Moodle transformed their school. Click here for Part 1 or click here for Part 2.
For teachers wondering whether Moodle might be right for them as an adjunct to their physical classrooms, this video shares one Texas teacher's experience and success with her first Moodle course. Click here for this brief presentation. For anyone not yet familiar with what Moodle is for, another practicing teacher has created this video tutorial.
Parents & Students
Using the Site
 STUDENTS: If you are a Lassiter student and are having trouble accessing one of your courses, click here to send the MoodleAdmin an e-mail and we'll help you! Note that some teachers require you to log in, others do not...it's the teacher's choice that controls this.
For students, if your teacher is requiring you to log in to access their course, it's pretty simple. Just create an account on the site (if you had one last year, it's still good!) Your teacher should give you an enrollment key which you'll enter one time and from then on, you'll see your courses whenever you log in. For family, if your student's teachers are requiring log ins and you would like access to the course, you might ask them about getting access in the "Parent" role. This allows you to enter the course and see almost everything your student sees (assignments, exhibits, handouts, etc.).
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