[LINK] What To Do About Microsoft Word?, ANU, Canberra, 9 Sep

[Tom Worthington]

>On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:47:05AM +1000, I wrote:
>
>Peter Sefton from USQ will give a free seminar on Microsoft Word's file 
>format and XML alternatives at ANU on Friday 9 September at 11am.

An excellent presentation on the pleasures and pitfalls of Word to XML 
conversion. Also the demonstration of the ICE (Integrated Content 
Environment) content management system for courseware was impressive. This 
allows a teacher to write some material with the Open Office word processor 
and have it converted into a portable and efficient XHTML format for 
on-line delivery. The system uses a software development type version 
control system to allow several people to maintain one set of courseware. 
The software is open source and free <http://ice.usq.edu.au/>.



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