<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">In a former life I was an accountant in
Hotels that probably have budgets not better than schools. I became a
spreadsheet power user simply because we didn’t have programmers – you’d be
amazed what you can do with macros in built in HAL programming in Lotus 123.
Since I made the move to full time IT before M$ had started giving away Excel I’m
not sure how good it is in this regard but I’d be surprised if it didn’t do as
much (now). My guess is there ARE power users in schools simply because they
had to be to get anything done without 50 committees and a session before the
school board.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Not saying this wasn’t a stupid decision –
just arguing the power user point.</span></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>my exposure to schools (APS and Dekalb county) have shown "Power user" to be an authority figure not a highly capable technophile.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 14, 2010
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Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] A Real Sad Loss
for Open Source in the Atlanta Area</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You're probably right.
For some people that's "HTML" but it's not.<br>
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I find it hard to believe there are "power users" of excel in any
school system.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Brian Stanaland <<a href="mailto:brian@stanaland.org" target="_blank">brian@stanaland.org</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The article doesn't say but I'd put dollars to donuts that
"learning<br>
management system" has a Sharepoint back end. Ensuring continued use<br>
of Microsoft's crap.<br>
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--Brian</span></font></span></font></p>
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