Hello all,
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Sam Tuke wrote:
I noticed in The Guardian's educational supplement last week [1] that the free of charge teaching materials that they make available to teachers are Powerpoint files, and are unnecessarily referred to as 'Powerpoints' rather than presentations or slide-shows:
thanks Sam for bringing this up. The "Powerpoint" issue itself has not so much to do with education and is more a general problem. Though, I really like the idea to use that opportunity to get the foot in the door in the edu related editorial department of the Guardian.
It is a common issue throughout Europe and it's advantageous to start fighting it in UK, because we can re-use at least parts of the text as a template to be translated into other languages.
In other words: I'm eager to help! :)
Who do you think the message should be from (edu team, UK team)?
Looking at the long term goal to develop press relations, I'd say it's best that the UK team contacts them. AFAIK it helps if the journalist(s) have only one point of contact when dealing with an organisation.
Either way, on their side, the message should come from FSFE, period. Only the individual sending the mail should be someone from the UK team, since the UK team is the group that is likely to make the most use of the relationship. If the edu-team has something for them, we can pass it through you guys.
Whatever we (the edu-team) do, we should do it in close cooperation with the corresponding country teams to avoid double work and confusion and share resources and information (like contacts to journalists) wherever possible.
Please contribute to ideas and the draft itself before the end of this week.
Sorry, that deadline was too tight for me. May I ask what it made so urgent?
Now, after the deadline passed, is it still an issue for you?
Greetings,
Guido