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and I'm the technology teacher at Shepherd of the Hills Christian School in Centennial, CO.

I have a heart and passion for technology and for educational ministry for our Lord Jesus Christ.

This blog is a natural result of these unique interests. I have 20 years of teaching experience in Lutheran schools, the last five exclusively as a technology teacher.

I seek to use the talents that God has given me to enhance His Kingdom in new, exciting, and creative ways, utilizing the technology tools with which we have been blessed to enhance ministry for Christ.

 

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At the moment, we use Office 2003 in our building. We really don't have any current plans to upgrade. While Office 2007 has some nice features, those additions really don't justify the increase in cost. In addition, many of our systems would need to be upgreaded to run Office 2007, adding to the total cost.

Do you use alternatives to Microsoft Office? If so, what do you find works best? Do you have any words of advice for other teachers and schools asking these same questions? Feel free to share your thoughts as a comment to this post.

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Josh
# Josh
Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:03 AM
We are rolling out Google Apps for Education next year (maybe next semester) for our students at CLHS... we will continue to offer Office 2003/7 (we have an MS school agreement, and frankly M$ does do some tasks very well that are difficult with free software) and we will also add Open Office to our school wide deployment image for next year... We want to give students a range of choices...

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