+ 1 on using these books - http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sri/ssrvm/
The books are under the following creative commons license - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/byncsa/2.5/in/ Only 1st and 2nd standard books are available at the website. I flipped through book 1 and book 2 that is available on the site - they are quite nice and engaging. They are written with assumption the OS will be a flavor of Ubuntu with GCompris and Tux Paint installed. They teach the basics of what a computer is - the various parts, IO devices, etc. They also show how to use it to paint, play music, write using text editor. The coolest thing IMO is they healthy habits like proper sitting posture and the importance of moving away from the computer every once in awhile and some yoga exercises as well. They also show how to use the computer safely. The books are based on the ICSE syllabus and I think they will cover all of Std 1 - most of Std 2 and the text editor portion of Std 3 as specified in the wiki - http://gnulinux4cbse.pbwiki.com/. - Nikhil On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Vimal Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 09:40 +0530, Prasad SR wrote: > > > > Earlier Christ nagar school enquired whether the community (ilug-tvm) > > can make a linux based curriculum for Std 1 to 8, that they would be > > running as a test from the next academic year onwards, for there CBSE, > > ISCE and state syllabus schools. They have a press @ school so they > > will do the publishing thing. > > See this website http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sri/ssrvm/ they've already > made books for 1,2,3 and 4 :) on Free Software ... > > > ~vimal > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
