On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Eben Eliason <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > +1 to "Show 'n' Tell". That's a fantastic name for this activity. +1!!! > > > Eben > > > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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