Am 31. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Joseph Sinclair so:

> Have you checked into the resources listed below targeted at education?
> Each of the following is designed for use by educators, often in the
> classroom, and includes applications useful in that environment.  The
> first two are Live CD's, so you could try them out on your own machine
> to see how they work, what software is included, etc...  This should
> help in terms of covering the topic well.  Also, some of these sites
> have additional documents you may find helpful to incorporate into your
> presentation.

Yeah, the problem isn't a lack of available information resources. Heck,
it's really the opposite, namely an overabundance of information about
Free Software and education.

If I can get help and pointers from people using Free Software in
educational environments that would really help. I was hoping to join a
forum for seul or something before the presentation this week, but I will
not have time to read before then :(.

>    1. FreeDuc, This (high-school) classroom-focused CD is prepared by a
>       French group (Ofset, Organization For Software in Education and
>       Teaching) dedicated to improving the use of technology in classrooms.
>       There is an English version of the manual at
>       (http://ofset.sourceforge.net/freeduc/book/en/book_1.html) with
>       some good information on numerous applications for education, all
>       GPL-free

Cool. Financial support for UNICEF and creators of Dr. Geo and GCompris.

>    2. Check the OSEF (Open Source Educational Foundation) at
>       (http://www.osef.org/) and their Knoppix4Kids CD, it's great if
>       your target is the K-12 audience, although it hasn't been updated
>       for about 18 months.

I hope Harry and Justin will make it to the conference. I want to talk
them into showing up to my talk :).

There are other Knoppix-based education Live CDs that are getting updated.

http://www.Skolelinux.org/

>       They also have a lot of additional information that you may find
>       useful in your presentation.
>       In particular, a few links down at
>       (http://casestudy.seul.org/cgi-bin/caseview0.pl) there is a list

Hmm, looks like the Gilbert project could use some help.

http://casestudy.seul.org/cgi-bin/caseview1.pl?recnum=42

/me puts on Chairman hat and writes contact person for GUSD.

Looks like the St. Gregory project in Tucson is faring better, but still
no recent updates.

>       of case studies of Linux in schools.
>       Note: The link to the ISO is broken, but this link
>       (http://www.swfo.arizona.edu/~hmcgregor/knoppix-kids-v2.iso)
>       works, as does this
>       one(ftp://seul.org/pub/seul/knoppix-kids-v2.iso).  I have a copy
>       if you need it as well.

I have it. Gave it to my nieces. Heck, I played on it for hours when I
first got it :).

>    3. Check the SEUL/Edu Educational software list at
>       (http://richtech.ca/seul/)
>    4. Another CD for education, this time focused on Science, is the
>       KnoSciences CD at
>       (http://gistlabs.homelinux.net/Knosciences/index.html), this one
>       is also developed by the French, and shares some characteristics
>       with the FreeDuc CD.

Hadn't seen that one before.

>    5. K12LTSP (http://k12ltsp.org/) is another K-12 focused group, they
>       are mostly creating a distribution (customized Fedora) designed to
>       set up a school network as a terminal server with diskless
>       workstations.
>
> Hope these links help.  There's a lot of information behind some of
> them, so you should have more than enough to fill out your presentation.

Yeah, more than enough info. I need the Cliff's Notes for all of it! :)

I also want to take copies of either The Open CD or GNUWin II which
contain Free Software compiled for m$ environments.

It would be nice to also have something like that for Mac.

I think I saw one at some point, but don't remember what it is. Thought it
was TheOpenCD.

Hmmm, Ubuntu uses software from TheOpenCD.

Darn. It looks like GNUWin is dead :(.

http://TheOpenCD.sunsite.dk/
http://www.GNUWin.org/

ciao,

der.hans
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