On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 14:43, Tony Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on ClassroomPresenter. The primary goal is to make it possible > to author slideshows on the XO. In addition, I am adding the capability to > provide voice narration for the slides. This version will probably be > renamed 'ShowNTell.activity' to reflect the use by students to make their > own slideshows to share with their friends. > > As far as I know, the current version of ClassroomPresenter works on the XO > (8.2). > > I expect to be at LinuxTag.
Awesome! See you soon. Regards, Tomeu > Tony > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:36:17 +0200 > From: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] classroom presenter, iTalc for sugar (possible > ports for LinuxTag Berlin showoff) > To: David Van Assche <[email protected]> > Cc: iaep <[email protected]>, Sugar-dev Devel > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:17, David Van Assche <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > Hi, >> > ?? At LinuxTag Berlin, there are 3 areas that are of particular interest >> > to >> > me, and might be considered novelties in the way sugar can/will be >> > presented >> > there. From one side, I will be representing sugar packaging on the >> > openSUSE >> > platform, and being part of the opensuse-edu team, we will show off not >> > only >> > the live suse sugar cd/usb stick, but also the tight integration >> > (including >> > desktop launch icon) of sugar within the openSUSE 11.1 educational spin. >> > Since kiwi-ltsp (A mature variant of LTSP 5) is quite integrated in the >> > educational desktop, as is ejabberd, we will show off LTSP sugarised, >> > with >> > the approximately 50 sugar activities that have been packaged for >> > openSUSE. >> > Within the LTSP framework, we often use an application called iTalc, >> > which >> > allows for the remote administration (vnc on steroids) of desktop >> > sessions, >> > locking of sessions, passing around of sessions (for the classroom >> > environment) as well as, intra station messaging (in case a particular >> > station needs administrative help/training/support.) Right now, it runs >> > great on the administrator machine, which doesn't need to and won't run >> > Sugar. Basically from this view one can see screenshots of each desktop >> > and >> > by clicking on the desktop in question, one takes over or shares that >> > session with that particular sugar user. There is more explanation and >> > screenshots here: http://italc.sourceforge.net/ >> > On the client side, it would be nice for someone to study how hard it >> > would >> > be to port to sugar. Its not massively important since it runs from >> > gnome, >> > but for scenarios where sugar is the only Desktop Environment, it would >> > be >> > nice to have this kind of controlling mechanism for the teacher/admin. >> > For >> > example, the teacher could collaboratively work on one session connected >> > to >> > a projector, and pass that session on friom student to student, with >> > each of >> > them carrying out some task. I have seen it used this way under Gnome >> > with >> > great success, and as Sugar is collaborative by nature, it seems like a >> > perfect fit. So any sugar porting takers? >> > >> > On another note, I have successfully tested the home made whiteboard >> > option >> > using a wiimote and infra red pens. This approach allows for the >> > building of >> > an interactive whiteboard for under 50 euros. Unfortunately, the best >> > software to use for something like this is classroom presenter, >> > originally >> > windows software allowing one to open a powerpoint/impress presenation >> > and >> > then draw upon that using the infra red pen. Classroom presenter was >> > ported >> > to sugar at one point. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Classroom_Presenter , >> > but >> > I'm not sure about its current status, only that it doesn't currently >> > work. >> > Again, it would be nice to fix this activity so we can show it off at >> > LinuxTag and show people how to create a cheap sugarised interactive >> > whiteboard for under 50 euros. If someone is interested in getting this >> > activity working again for Sugar, that would be great. > > Maybe the activity team needs to adopt Classroom presenter? Or we > could reactivate its original developers? > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
