

San Diego, CA, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Apache OpenOffice For Windows is a free, Open Source MS Office alternative with a Word-compatible word processor, a complete Excel-compatible spreadsheet program, and more. Dodge (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2010-Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. Evaluating a pilot implementation of in a K-12 Public School. The results of this study will provide the foundation of developing a larger-scale implementation plan for expanding the use of OpenOffice throughout the district. The new collaboration feature also helps avoid editing conflicts. The spreadsheet owner can then easily integrate the new data with a few clicks. By sharing a spreadsheet other users can easily add their data to the spreadsheet. Using the framework of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this study will investigate user perceptions of ease of use, usefulness, and acceptance of the OpenOffice suite for K-12 educators transitioning from a commercial productivity suite. This new feature in 3.0 allows collaborating on spreadsheets with multiple users. This in-progress study evaluates a pilot implementation of an open source productivity suite (OpenOffice) in a public K-12 educational institution. Go-oo (also Go-Open Office previously called ooo-build) is a discontinued free office suite which started as a set of patches for, then later became an independent fork of with a number of enhancements, sponsored by Novell. Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Mar 29, 2010
