"I sent a copy of the Letter to the Ontario Minister of Education about software policy. I asked if if school boards are under Access to Information legislation, as well as any exclusive agreements or policy that school boards of the province may have with software vendors that would exclude teachers from using alternatives. My trustee forwarded the letter to staff.

The following is the reply from Laura McAlister, Superintendent of Curriculum, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, dated July 3, 2006."

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The Internet is at a critical juncture and serious choices are being made by millions of people across the globe. These decisions will have an enormous impact on future direction of the World Wide Web. As with any professional discipline a need for universal conventions is necessary.

It is my contention that the World Wide Consortium (W3C) and the standards and protocols they are proposing are necessary, beneficial and indispensable to proper web site construction. The reader should be aware that there are those who think the W3C can not provide this structure. My hope is to convince you otherwise.

Sésamath association proposes a textbook of mathematics for the class of 5th pennies free, free downloadable licence on Internet and which will be sold in May 2006 pennies format paper approximately ten euros in partnership with the Génération5 editor.

La Loche, SK, Canada

While we all know computers cannot teach, they are excellent tools for conveying information of many kinds in the educational community and give good value for money and effort spent to place them in schools. Most schools use computer labs and a minimal number of computers in the classroom. I believe the time has come to increase use of computers in classrooms and I believe it can be done much more economically.