In the last few years, I have repeatedly looked into findings from learning research in order to constantly improve my personal learning, but also the learning at our school. One term I have come across again and again is “spaced repetition”. What this has to do with “learning without forgetting” Read more…
For many years, we have been relying heavily on open source applications in our school – on the server, but also on the computers and laptops. Especially on the server-side, open source software is widely used and many great software projects can be used wonderfully in a school. Therefore today Read more…
For 1.5 years our school uses almost exclusively Open Source software. This step has already saved us more than 5000€ in license costs in this short time. But that’s not our main reason for using open source software. The reasons are as follows: Freedom and independence from a vendor the low Read more…
Digital signage offers new possibilities for schools. What used to be solved with posters on so-called “bulletin boards” or information boards is now increasingly being taken over by screens. Whether information about upcoming events, substitution plans, room signage or other important information – you can display many things more flexibly Read more…
Some years ago we have started from scratch in our school IT infrastructure. More Open Source software (OSS) on our servers and clients was the plan. Did it work out? Was it the right way to go? Isn’t Open Source not more expensive in the end? Here is why we Read more…
I’ve been using Joplin for several months now and I’m very happy with it. For anyone looking for an alternative to Evernote or any other note-taking program, this open source solution is probably a good choice in most cases. In the last half year some new features have been added Read more…
Currently we are using Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity in our school and are mostly satisfied with it. Next year we want to update the Linux client (in connection with the upgrade to linuxmuster.net v7). Since Unity is no longer part of Ubuntu 18.04 by default, we have to ask ourselves Read more…
For some time now the developers have been working on the new version 7 of linuxmuster.net. This version will bring some innovations and may be one of the most important releases in the history of the project. Ubuntu will be updated to LTS (18.04), the domain controller Samba4 will be Read more…
Many people probably know Evernote or OneNote – two sophisticated note management applications with many great features. One advantage – especially from Evernote – is that it is available on many platforms. Even for Ubuntu there are some unofficial programs that you can use to synchronize and edit your Evernote Read more…
Open source software is increasingly being used in schools all over the world. I’m not just talking about the classical computer science lessons (if there is one…), but also outside of it. There are some very good open source apps that you can use in maths, physics or music lessons. Read more…