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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