Wow - I've already been blown away by the work being done in the
Education sector. Ubuntu in schools, just makes sense. Yesterday I was
directed to this great map showing schools in Finland with Ubuntu
deployments:
http://bit.ly/amFiOO and more on what is happening around open source
there:
http://www.opinsys.fi/en/mista-on-hyvat-koulu-tehty
http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-over-a-hundred-schools-using-open-source
And next week I'm visiting a local school in Houston, TX that has
migrated to Ubuntu/Moodle and lots of other open source offerings. The
project leaders is also the Moodle Core Contrib coordinator so I will
ask how we can get more folks interested in helping with the technical
side of Ubuntu/Edubuntu.
I'll keep plugging away at coordinating all this great info and have
also started updating some of the wiki pages. Great stuff folks! Let's
keep the momentum going!
Belinda
On 09/01/2010 08:05 PM, David Groos wrote:
Nice! Cool things are happening...
Belinda, I just got an e-mail from someone who was looking to install
LTSP on edubuntu lucid and was asking what he needed beyond the
instructions on this page
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installlucid> I had written. I
referred him to this page
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installLTSPlucid> as well as the
basicsetup page
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook/BasicSetup>.
From my point of view, a critical resource would be a complete set of
tutorials on setting up a LTSP lab in a school with Lucid. It needs
an easily-updatable pathway to create a 10.10 BasicSetup page... With
a good 'Hub' page Edubuntu would be open to many more tech inclined
educators...
Good luck
David
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Belinda,
You might want to talk to Maine Open 1 to 1 (open1to1.org
<http://open1to1.org>) they are a Ubuntu netbook remix remix that
is being used by a couple thousand students in Maine on netbooks.
There are also deployments in NH and VT. They just started last
year, this year they are working on being more involved in the
Ubuntu community. We are also working to put Sugar, which is
currently being ported to Ubuntu (Ubuntu Sugar Remix) into this
remix also.
I am working with the Boston area Ubuntu community and folks from
Tufts and Harvard to do a stick based deployment in Somerville
where we will give families in housing projects refurbished
computers and each person in the family a bootable USB sticks with
Open 1 to 1 (or maybe a different mix of software for the
parents). We will work with community computer centers to give
classes and use these spaces to provide internet access.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for doing this work.
Caroline
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Belinda Lopez
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Greetings all!
I'm working on a short-term assignment to review and update
Canonical's Ubuntu in Education resources. This includes
making the
various websites easier to use for end user like students,
parents,
educators as well as solution providers and others who want to do
business in the Education market place using Ubuntu and its
derivatives. The Education sector is an important space on
many levels
to both Canonical and Ubuntu. I can't make any promises other
than it
being a personal goal of mine to help drive the adoption of
Ubuntu in
Education at every level so for starters I'm opening up the
dialog with
the community on best to use the limited resources Canonical
currently
has to develop some new content for the following audiences:
End users: students, parents, educators
School level adoptions: decision makers
District/regional deployments; policy makers
Solution Providers: those delivering services and hardware to the
Education sector.
If you have any thoughts on what each audience needs to know
please
voice your thoughts here or email me privately. I've also
added this
item to the Edubuntu meeting agenda to help further the
conversation.
Also, does anyone have idea of how many schools might be using
Ubuntu/Edubuntu? or if there is some place we can ask people
to let us
know about their schools?
thanks,
Belinda/dinda
Education
Canonical
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