Old Software or Open Source?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 5, 2007 @04:40AM from the just-give-'em-all-slide-rules dept.

Pakled writes "I teach a high school multimedia course. We were scheduled to get new software this year but due to several pointy haired bosses, no software was ordered. The software I have to teach is Flash 5, Dreamweaver 2000, Photoshop 7 and (god help me) Movie Maker. The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts (Komposer, Gimp, etc.)? Is the steep learning curve and slightly less uniform design worth a little student frustration to teach them software written in the past 5 years?"

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Re:Wake up by rengav · 2007-12-05 06:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But hey, that's what schools are for, right, teach kids what to do, rather than how to think. If that's what you think schools are for, you need to go back to school. Schools should be teaching kids to think. Unfortunately, most schools don't, but that's another rant for another day.