Thing # 18

Openoffice/suite is free and that would be very helpful to my students since I work at a Title One school and if they have computers they cannot afford the programs that they might need. The multilingual program sounds wonderful. I had no idea that there were free programs - I think they are a great idea, but I will probably continue to use the Microsoft Office that we have installed on the district computers. Partly because they are what is installed on our computers and it is what I am used to and partly because I wonder if the free options are as private as our Microsoft Office.