My wife teaches a 2nd and 3rd grade inclusion classroom here in the states, which is mainly 7 and 8 year olds. (inclusion meaning they have special education and general education students in the same classroom.) Because of this, I have an interest in improving the state of the educational system in the US. I think that a good linux distro like edubuntu could make a big difference.
The areas I hope to help is being what Scott Adams (dilbert) refers to as "an idea rat". I'd love to help code, but since I only know PHP as of now, I'm not sure what I can do, but I have tons of ideas I'd like to work on. Some of these ideas include grading software for the teachers to keep track of students' grades/assignments/attendance/etc. I would also like to see easy-to-use math programs to generate math questions automagically based on a teacher's critera, such as what skills are required to accomplish the questions, and how many questions to use. It would be nice to let them print it out along with a teacher's answer key.
Anyway, hopefully in the next few months her classroom will have a small network of edubuntu computers, and I'll be able to provide feedback until I learn more about linux software packaging and application development.
-Chris "OneSeventeen" Adams
http://www.woventhorns.com
http://blog.woventhorns.com
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