yeah, those are my thoughts and experiences as well. Teaching kompozer is far easier and more logical taking web design as a full subject comprised of both programming and design. At a younger age, its doubtful they'd be playing with php/perl/ruby/whatever. The other option is wine+dreamweaver, but that's a proprietary solution (albeit the best one.)
Taking this a bit further, here's a list of other apps that I think might have a future in edubuntu. (Be it by means of MIR or getting edubuntu to accept universe apps.) It by no means they should be included, I just wanted to open a discussion about them. Feel free to add to them: Squeak Blender Bluefish Stopmotion Celestia Gnu Solfege - Music training kgeography - already in main klettres - already in main Linux Letters and Numbers Stellarium Freeciv gbrainy pyscrabble salasaga - create e learning objects, output flash... pdfeditor kivio Labyrinth - Mind map Audacity Jokosher kind Regards, David Van Assche On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:25 AM, nigel barker <[email protected]> wrote: > I am currently using both kompozer and bluefish. I tried amaya for a while, > but kids struggled with it. > We use kompozer from grade 4 up. I find it less buggy than Nvu was, and kids > can install it at home (win or mac). > We use bluefish from grade 9 up. > > > nigel > > > David Van Assche wrote: >> >> We've been talking a bit about replacing screem for a better >> html/php/javascript editor. There are various choices that come to >> mind, and it probably makes sense to vote on here about which would be >> the best to support. In my experience there are 2 types of editors >> that people are interested in, the WYSIWYG kind, and the coder/hacker >> type. The first type is usually wanted by general web designers, and >> the second for developers. I think edubuntu, as it is aimed at schools >> should really have a nice WYSIWYG editor, but the only one that is >> kind of usable right now is kompozer, and to me it seems buggy as >> hell. Bluefish would be my vote for a developer based editor, but it >> may be too complex for schools. On the other hand, if we think of >> these editors as different animals, then we might be able to choose >> one which is WYSIWYG based, and the other code based... What are >> people's thoughts? >> >> Some possible choices include Quanta Plus, Kompozer, Bluefish, Amaya, >> and Sea Monkey. >> >> kind Regards, >> David Van Assche >> >> > -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
