Re: Burrokeet presentation

Richard Jobity wrote:
> 
> Um... there may be another way.
> 
> Target teachers directly, and not school administrations.  I think that 
> teachers would leap at any system that led to them spending less time 
> running photocopies, etc.
> 
> If left to a bureaucratic school administration, we'll be left standing 
> in our shoes and wondering.

This is why I've been mentioning the website project to teachers. 
However I've not said anything about Burrokeet to them because it's not 
an out-of-the-box solution yet, i.e. too technical to setup and use. 
Thing is, it's the schools' principal who makes the final decision and 
it might even have to go to the schools' supervisor in some cases.

> Apart from Ameena, how many teachers even know of thins thing called 
> Burrokeet?  How many teachers have we shown it to?  Lecturers?  Students?
> 
> We have a tool with huge potential.  We have some suggested uses that we 
> have thought of.  There are other uses for it that we haven't even 
> thought of, but someone (not us) will when they are using it regularly.
> 
> Let's not limit ourselves.

Exactly!  That's what a live installation will produce.



Allan.

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