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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
der.hans wrote:
>Am 30. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Bart Garst so:
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>>On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 14:10, der.hans wrote:
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>>>I need some good educational software to present, though. Keduca looks
>>>interesting, but it's not something I use.
>>>
>>>gcompris was recently suggested to me in a conversation about educational
>>>software.
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>>>
>>Maxima (xmaxima for a gui) maybe?
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>>I know my calculus classes would be a lot harder without it.
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>There was a /. thread about math programs. maxima was one that got
>mentioned.
>
>Here are some other things I peeled out of that thread.
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>http://www.quantian.org/
>octave - The GNU Octave language for numerical computations (2.1 branch)
>r-base - GNU R statistical computing language and environment
>siptoolbox - Scilab image processing toolbox (SIP)
>euler - an interactive mathematical program
>gerris - The Gerris Flow Solver
>maxima - A fairly complete computer algebra system-- base system
>math.com
>pari-gp - PARI/GP Computer Algebra System binaries
>gap - Groups, Algorithms and Programming computer algebra system
>yacas - Computer Algebra System
>quantlib-examples - Quantitative Finance Library -- example binaries
>ginac-tools - Some tools for the GiNaC framework
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>I've never used any of them.
>
>ciao,
>
>der.hans
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