Am 31. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Austin Godber so:

> der.hans wrote:
> > I had a paper proposal about Free Software in education accepted by a
> > conference. Now I need to write the presentation. I would like to enlist
> > assistance from PLUG in order to have a better presentation.
>
> Yeah, it really depends on what your target audience is and what kind of
> message you want to share.  For instance some people might be interested

Target audience is anyone in education :). I imagine it'll mostly be
elementary through high school. I also imagine it'll mostly be
administrators and staff as the conference is during the day during the
school year, so most teachers can't go. A new teacher I know mentioned
that to me over the weekend.

I've never been to the conference, though, so I have no idea what to
expect.

> to learn about moodle (a course management system) or uPortal

Moodle looks interesting. I hear teachers talking about Blackboard[TM] on
a regular basis. Have you used either?

Here's the LJ link for those who didn't check out your blog:

http://www.LinuxJournal.com/article/7478

LJ still does a dead tree edition, right?

www.moodle.org

> (www.uportal.org).  They are both institutional pieces of software ...
> handy for the business of education kinda thing rather than software
> that is instructional.

Well, I know lots of teachers trying to use Blackboard, but most say they
can't afford it for their classrooms.

> And then there is software that might be useful to instructors ... (IT
> instructors at least) like vnc2swf (makes a flash file of a vnc session,
> fantastic!)  And of course any of the technologies that would allow
> students to have their own virtual machine to do system admin tasks or
> system programming (like User Mode Linux or Xen) could be useful in
> education.
>
> I just started a rather sorry little blog on this topic:
>
> http://eport.cgc.maricopa.edu/published/g/od/godber/weblog/13/
>
> Its not high activity ... just as I come up with things I will put them
> there.

Worked for me because I found the LJ link :).

You gonna make the presentation Thu night?

ciao,

der.hans
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