Am 31. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Rod Heyd so:
> Do you know what kind of audience you are going to have for this? Is
> it Ed. tech people? Teachers? Tech support staff? Administrators?
Yes.
It might well have all of the above.
> The reason I ask is that the technical capabilies of educators can be
> pretty attrocious, even amoungst the ones that call themselves
> "technology experts." Particularly when it comes to teachers, they
> just don't have a lot of time to learn the tech, and in many, many
> cases, the educational quality of the technology they are using is so
> poor that it's not worth bothering with. In education, there is kind
> of a vicious cycle of bad ed software being created, teachers seeing
> that it's horrible, and deciding to *not* learn about the technology
> because everything they've seen sucks.
Yeah, I'm hoping to avoid getting technical. I want to talk about
possibilities and freedom. I think a big plus is being able to let the
kids use the same exact software at home and anywhere else at the school
because there aren't seat licensing issues.
It might be good to talk about security as well as I know several teachers
who've had gradebooks compromised by students and viruses.
> Also as far as apps to demo, I think I would probably avoid giving a
> demo of anything that has a steep learning curve (especially if there
> are going to be teachers in the audience). Blender is very cool, but
> I think that a tool like that is just beyond the scope of anything
> that a teacher can seriously use in the classroom (unless they are
> teaching computer animation/modeling, etc.) I would be more inclined
> to demo things that teachers are going to really use. If you're
> looking for eye-candy, Celestia is pretty good, just the short demo
> "movie" should have more than enough eye candy...
Hmm. Sounds good. My demo from blender will be to show one of the blender
movies. "This can be done with Free Software." I think that'll help get
over the "Well if it doesn't cost anything it can't be any good." hump.
Sounds like celestia might be of similar use. Gonna have to play with it.
ciao,
der.hans
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