{"id":98,"date":"2012-05-04T13:41:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/?p=98"},"modified":"2012-05-04T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T17:41:34","slug":"libreoffice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/2012\/05\/04\/libreoffice\/","title":{"rendered":"LibreOffice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have begun to deploy LibreOffice in the district. This is an exciting opportunity for the you. LibreOffice is a free, open source software package. You can download and use LibreOffice at home as well as at work. LibreOffice will work on PC&#8217;s as well as Macs. It is completely free. We&#8217;ve also included a couple of tools that will help too- <em>more information on that will follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can download the program from\u00a0<a title=\"LibreOffice Home\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a title=\"CNet LibreOffice Download\" href=\"https:\/\/download.cnet.com\/LibreOffice\/3000-18483_4-75337651.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (Note that the first link may be slower, thus, the second link is provided).<\/p>\n<p>LibreOffice provides several programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writer (similar to MicroSoft Word)<\/li>\n<li>Calc (similar to MicroSoft Excel)<\/li>\n<li>Impress (similar to MicroSoft PowerPoint)<\/li>\n<li>Draw<\/li>\n<li>DataBase (similar to MicroSoft Access)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have used MicroSoft Office 2003, you will feel right at home with LibreOffice. In fact, it is much less of a change than moving to MicroSoft Office 2010.<\/p>\n<p>See the image below for what the program looks like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Untitled-1-LibreOffice-Writer-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Untitled-1-LibreOffice-Writer-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1017\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Untitled-1-LibreOffice-Writer-1.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Untitled-1-LibreOffice-Writer-1-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Untitled-1-LibreOffice-Writer-1-624x150.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\" \/><\/a>This is very, very similar to MicroSoft Word 2003.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first icon allows you to create a new document.<\/li>\n<li>The second one opens an existing file<\/li>\n<li>The third one is to Save a document.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth one is Email the Document.<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will provide tutorials on our <a href=\"https:\/\/dearbornschools.org\/pd\" target=\"_blank\">Professional Development Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have begun to deploy LibreOffice in the district. This is an exciting opportunity for the you. LibreOffice is a free, open source software package. You can download and use LibreOffice at home as well as at work. LibreOffice will work on PC&#8217;s as well as Macs. It is completely free. We&#8217;ve also included a &#8230; <a title=\"LibreOffice\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/2012\/05\/04\/libreoffice\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LibreOffice\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}