Saturday, March 31, 2012

Supporting Education in Paraguay

In a previous post we mentioned the OpenOffice/LibreOffice guides that Rup had produced to support free, open source software in Latin America (link to guides on the side bar).


When Rup read that the Paraguayan Ministry of Education was planning to introduce computers in schools using open source software, he realised his guides may be useful to them. Aware that the government is beginning to train teachers in preparation for this, he sent the Ministry an email informing them of the link and free access to his resources. He was greatly surprised and encouraged to receive the following reply:

Dear Mr Rupert Parsons

Your ICT guides are extremely interesting, particularly as they provide a clear and easy introduction to people who are accessing these programmes for the first time. So with your permission, it would be an honour for us to use them in our next training session with teachers, which will be in March. Your resources will be a great help to the teachers.

Yours very gratefully

Director of Teacher Training for the Introduction of Information Technology in the Classroom,
Ministry of Education and Culture, Paraguay



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