About SOSSIG

SOS Mission

The mission of the SOS-SIG is to build and activate a community of educators who promote and support opportunities for technological advancement and a broader educational foundation that Free and Open Source software solutions bring to K-16 education.

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SOS Goals

1. To promote opportunities for all students within the State of Texas to benefit from Free and Open Source technology applications.
2. To develop guidelines for selecting, developing, and implementing Free and Open Source technology applications for educational administration, school curriculum, and use in personal productivity and learning.
3. To encourage the implementation of Free and Open Source technology K-16 education settings.
4. To develop an improvement process for Free and Open Source technology through formative assessments, evaluation and action research.

SOS Benefits

Our organization is the Strategic Open Source Special Interest Group with a strong emphasis on STRATEGIC. We are trying to find/build offerings for you that you can use in your existing technology infrastructure. In addition, we are trying to find/build offerings for students and teachers that work in almost any environment. However, these offerings must do more than just save money. We also want our offerings to improve learning and/or instruction.

To this end we will have some solutions, such as wikis, that students and/or teachers can use on their own with out needing any changes to the school's infrastructure or adding more the technology department's work load. With all this in mind, we have created this section to educate our friends and colleagues on the benefits of using open source.

• Improvement of student learning
• Improvement of instructional practices
• Improvement of staff development
• Improvement of staff/community communications
• Improvement of school administration
• Improvement of technology infrastructure and management
• Improvement of return on investment

You know you want to join...

If you are already a member of TCEA, go to the TCEA membership login, click the "SIG & TCEA memberships" tab, add a SOS SIG membership to you cart, and proceed to log in and checkout.

Price for membership is $20. You will automatically be added to the SOS-SIG listserv.