I agree that some platform for creating tests and activities would be great.
My basic ideas is a matching principle. i.e. match a picture with a word or a sound. e.g. a word is spoken in Sanskrt the students click one picture (or word) out of 4 that are shown. e.g. Similarly, hear "one half" click on the symbol or a graphic representation of it. If teachers can choose the text, pictures and audio for their own matching games it would be great. On 20/10/2007, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, David Trask wrote: > > > I have a bazillion ideas for things that we need to work on for Edubuntu. > > Not many are programming so much as marketing, advocacy, support and so > > forth. I'm soliciting ideas from all of you (as an educator/IT support > > person) to bring up for discussion and work at the Ubuntu Developers > > Summit in just over a week (programming ideas welcome as well). > > I think there was a reasonable subset of the attendees in Sevilla who > agreed that what Edubuntu needed was to start focussing on the education > side of things. A capable desktop is now available from the main ubuntu > project and the addition of LTSP certainly makes for more efficient and > cost-effective maintenance and hardware use. However Edubuntu lacks > something that you can point teachers to and say "this is why we're using > edubuntu, it's clearly better for education". > > With that in mind, I've a few suggestions. > > == A Teachers' Platform? == > While the static content-driven stuff like kde-edu is nice, I don't think > it addresses education on computers as schools would want it. Every > country has its own language and curriculum and every teacher teaches at > different levels so they really need to be empowered to create their own > content. > > I may be totally wrong on this, but a platform which allows the > non-technical teacher to easily put together their notes, quizzes, extra > material, etc. and for which a publisher or country's education authority > can devise content for all students would be very useful. You might argue > that moodle already does this and you might argue that SCORM is the format. > You may be right, though I'm not sure that many teachers (ordinary > teachers, not technophiles) would really agree. Moodle may be the display > platform, but it's not the editor for this process. That means a > non-technical teacher must master use of a SCORM creator and moodle. The > chances of this are remote. Here are two SCORM creation tools which I > think could be radically improved upon. > http://www.reload.ac.uk/ldeditor.html > http://exelearning.org/ > > == FOSS Literacy Software == > This is needed in my 1st World country and I'm pretty sure it must be > relevant in others, not to mention the developing world. A multi-lingual > Literacy platform which could change its language, look and content to suit > the age-group/location/language of the user would be an awesome > contribution to the planet. > > == Computing Tutors == > Almost no technical computing is taught in a lot of countries until > University level. If tutor programs were available on the desktop which > keen students could sit down and learn from, that would be really > fantastic. Years ago, I learnt HTML from this website: > http://www.case.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html > Many people would consider this a bit primitive now, but it was a really > great tutor and I learnt HTML in a few afternoons using it. > > > Some of these are pretty lofty requests and maybe some readers will have > fallen off their chair laughing. I think edubuntu needs to have high > ambitions for education or else we will just spend 6 month periods waiting > for the next new firefox and openoffice versions, new artwork and a better > functioning thin client. All of those are great, but they're not > interesting to a teacher. Very few people seem to do computer-based > education well, it's a tough problem in need of a good solution and the > opportunity is there for anyone who can provide that solution. > > Apologies for a long email, > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
