"Open Source" Is Coming

This week's Greg Toppo article on open-source reading software that is being considered by Florida education officials reminded me that I wrote a short piece about schools turning to open source programs in Scholastic Administrator last year.  Toppo's piece focuses on reading software.  Mine profiles a school district in Texas that has used Open Office (free versions of Word, Excel) and GIMP (Photoshop) to provide copies of programs for students to take home. There's also some open-source stuff that teachers like -- lesson-planning software like Moodle or assignment-sharing programs like QUIA are examples.  I'm sure there are others. Check it out (Radical Ideas at Work).