[Thinkpad] NEED NEW COMPUTER FOR DAUGHTER

[David Abrahams]

on Thu Aug 23 2007, "Julian Thomas" <jt-BnqkeWoLPCdeoWH0uzbU5w-AT-public.gmane.org> wrote:

> In <001401c7e52f$b21235f0$020aa8c0 at Sierpinski>, on 08/22/07 
>    at 04:45 PM, "David Ross" <ross at math.hawaii.edu> typed:
>>I think it is a matter of uniformity, not ethics or equality - you want
>>everyone to be running the same software so that the professor can devote
>>minimal time to the grunt tasks of getting the students up and running. 
>>I'm not a Word user myself, but I know many professors who are, and have
>>heard many stories from them about the difficulties of students using
>>various alternatives.  Some like papers handed in electronically in Word
>>format, so they can easily incorporate their comments into the text.
>
> Any thoughts on how well (or badly) Open Office works in this environment?
> It can read and save in word format.  We've had good luck using it in a
> couple of different collaborative situations.

It depends what you want to do.  It's adequate for some things but --
though it tries to imitate -- the presentation software can't hold a
candle to powerpoint.

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