[K12OSN] Looking for Textbooks

[Petre Scheie]

Ask Solveig directly; you can email her directly at solveig at getopenoffice.org. 
(This is one of the greate aspects of OSS, you can usually contact the creators 
directly.) Granted, she can't give you an unbiased assessment of the workbook, 
but she can tell you what it covers and whether it would be appropriate for what 
you want.  I haven't seen her Core book, but I bought the SO 5.2 book years ago, 
and have corresponded with her on some things and she's always been very helpful.

I agree that for a lot of schools, having a predefined curriculum for OOo would 
go a long ways toward making it possible for them to teach that instead of more 
expensive proprietary office suites.

Petre

Huck wrote:
> In your opinion would this work nicely for a curriculm text in a high
> school setting?
> And is it written in such a fashion that a semi-computer literate
> computer applications teacher
> Can understand and teach from it?
> 
> What I'm trying to do is what many others are I assume, reduce the $100
> per machine license fees
> our school is spending to teach office applications...currently the
> textbooks in use come with
> teacher resource cd's with example files and project files that the
> students manipulate, view, etc.
> 
> 
> --Huck
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of Gary Frederick
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:42 PM
> To: k12osn at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Looking for Textbooks
> 
> 
> I second that suggestion.
> 
> I have her 'Core Office Suite, Essentials, Writer, Calc, and Impress' in
> 
> my hand as I type (which splains any errors ;-) )
> 
> It's a workbook that goes over how to use a bunch of OOo.
> 
> And she does training.
> 
> Gary
> 
> Petre Scheie wrote:
> 
> 
>>Solveig Haugland, who wrote the original StarOffice book for Sun, has
>>her own website of manuals, etc., including a workbook.  See 
>>www.getopenoffice.org.  She also does training, which might be a good 
>>way to get a bunch of teachers up to speed quickly on it.
>>
>>Also, if you go to Amazon (www.amazon.com) and search for openoffice,
>>you'll find a bunch of books and crib sheets.
>>
>>Petre
>>
>>Huck wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've searched and searched and can not find textbooks for OpenOffice.
> 
> 
>>>I remember someone posting a link here but searching the archives 
>>>produced no results.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know of some textbooks for teaching OO?
>>>I seem to recall there was a book for each aspect, Writer, Calc, 
>>>Presenter etc..
>>>
>>>--Huck
>>>
>>>
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