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From: Barbara Duprey on 8 Apr 2010 11:04 Bruce Martin wrote: > Dear Erik and Barbara: > > I gather at least one of you is a school teacher! Have you seen the > "Teacher's Pet" option? > I don't know about Erik (who, by the way, is not subscribed to the list), but I'm not a teacher. I have taught seniors at a local center to use their computers, unfortunately before I encountered OOo. Mostly they'd been given the computers by their "kids" and had no idea what to do with them! I think there are a lot of things common to both those kinds of students, in terms of creating fun stuff without a lot of fuss, and if I ever get back into that I'll check out the kinds of things you bring up here. > For kids, you can do a lot with that and Oo draw. I am trying something > myself to produce Christian depictions based on kids colouring pages (there > pages are generally not copyrighted.) > > Eventually I have some ideas to make these depictions independent of the > colouring pages and give them dimensions that are not feasible on paper. > > I have also used Oo Draw many times in presenting Toastmasters' speeches, > maintaining a freetoasthost website and more. I have also developed custom > colours and gradients. > > Added to that there is the CADOo project which seems quite extensive for a > new project, although it does not do all Autocad does (and doesn't cost over > $5000 a seat either.) > > I originally learned to do 3D mechanical drawing on a drafting board in the > 60's and have followed this for the decades since, using it for both the > schematic and the mechanical/visual side of drawing in my career as an > industrial electronic technician. > Me too! I took Mechanical Drawing as an elective in high school in 1961 -- preferred it to Home Ec! > <snip> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org |