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:
"you can now find a one-hour PowerPoint lesson that can be used both in the classroom and at home"
"The PowerPoint gives children the information and vocabulary to devise their own challenging science questions"
This presents an opportunity to contact the journalist concerned, and copy in the Guardian's education desk, reminding them of Open Documents, Open Standards, and their particular importance to education. It could also help develop press relations with this important newspaper, which hosts annual conferences on education and public sector technology amongst other things.
What do you think would be the best way to approach the issue in our message? Who do you think the message should be from (edu team, UK team)?
Please contribute to ideas and the draft itself before the end of this week.
Thanks,
Sam.
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/apr/11/space-travel-guardian-teache...