I am very interested in the digital whiteboard at LinuxTag. I will be going, and would love to be a part of it if you need some help.
Once I get my system(s) back up (tagging fedora bugs along the way). I will try take a look into the Classroom presenter activity. 2009/5/28 David Van Assche <[email protected]> > 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. > > kind Regards, > David (nubae) Van Assche > www.nubae.com > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >
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