At our libraries, in youth services, we direct library users to OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) which includes writer (word processing), calc (spreadsheet), impress (powerpoint), and Draw. Students have not had problems using these programs for homework assignments. There is a tutorial available.
For graphs, we recommend the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov)Kids Zone site. When you get to the home page, click on Kids Zone on the top toolbar. When you get to the Kids Zone Page, click on the Graphs icon at the top of the page. Tutorial available.
Our related project is being sure that in our hardware upgrade, we have USB ports available for flash drives. Some workstations have ports available on the CPU and others have them available on the monitors.
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Hey,
great you direct your patrons to use OpenOffice.org.
K<o>
Busy, providing technical support to non technical users of Open Office
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