Hi Asmo and others... the website linux-for-education.org was set up for precisely this kind of thing. It is a moodle site that has all the power that moodle brings (courses in multi-format, interactive content, made for teachers who teach practically, great multi language support, mailing lists, live chat, forums, lesson plan templates, etc, etc) It began as a project for opensuse, and today is thankfully still hosted (they pay for it) by Novell. But it has grown to involve the whole linux community interested in Education. There are quite a large number of people registered, and a few who regularly check in, even fiewer who leave comments, chat on the forums or chat rooms, and almost nobody adding content.
I'm not really sure how to go about encouraging people to get excited about this, but with Edubuntu now becoming its own distro again, i think its high time we contribute and add content to the ubuntu section of the site... You'll see I've started off by adding 2 Ubuntu based courses, making the perfect edubuntu desktop, and jazzing up your ed/ubuntu install. Both might have some minor wrinkles which I'm just working on, but they are fun to follow, and give users and idea on how easy it is to create a course. What I thought about when I read this mail was, when people want to make a howto, and it answers more than one simple question, make a moodle course out of it. For example... the below could become: Setting up LTSP using netbooks as clients or Asus eeepcs as clients on Ubuntu. It could contain all the customisations/modifications one could make to get netbooks (or more specifically eeepcs) to look and run well, inlcuding the caveats. It could include running ltsp with the netbooks as thin clients, local apps, or fat clients, connecting with LDAP, or even thrown in Samba, maybe add a filtering solution, along with content caching... In other words, these courses can copy and translate, they can branch, they can grow, but generally they are real world examples of how something gets implemented with lots of images, video material, audio, flash, multiple page pathways, etc etc Though this how to may not be the best example of something to port to i, it would be faster than the time it took for me to write this email. If anyone wants to help with the site, just send me an email and we'll sort something out so u get at least course creator status. But we need people from those creating categories, to translater, to forum moderators/enthusiasts <get conversations started> to translations and glossaries, dictionaries and databases made. In fact... just listing all the ways in which someone can help out is a job in and of itself :-) The power of moodle is vast.... give it a chance and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised... kind regards, David Van Assche www.linux-for-education.org - - - - - www.nubae.org On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Asmo Koskinen <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi, I added a HOWTO. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLtspAsusEee > > Please, correct my english. Thank you. > > Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- Ted Turner <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/ted_turner.html> - "Sports is like a war without the killing."
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