George Geller wrote:
I'm scheduled to man a booth at a conference about software for
educators and have agreed to demo Knoppix and the Gutengerg project.
Great. Now I have to figure out what to do.
So far, I installed Knoppix to a partition on my laptop and downloaded a
bunch of stuff from Gutenberg.org.
Does anybody have ideas as to what mostly naive educators would benefit
from learning about these projects?
Thanks, George
Well, take a look at edubuntu, as well.
Specifically, solve their problems:
1) Run a gradebook spreadsheet in OpenOffice (I set this up for my dad).
2) Run lots of stuff in OpenOffice. Show them that their students can
just use a school supplied CD and a USB key (persistence) to do their
homework (effectively: use the word processor in OpenOffice) without
reformatting the home machine. You might need ubuntu if Knoppix doesn't
have a similar persistence.
3) Set up a Moodle instance and let them play
4) Show them that going from a ground zero machine to a functioning web
server with a forum (phpBB or similar) takes about 5 minutes so that
they can go bug their computer people to set it up.
5) If you are really ambitious, figure out which packages would allow
the student newspaper kids to do an online site that splits content from
presentation. I don't know the answer to this one. I'd probably have
to sit down with a default Rails or Django install and muck with it.
These were things that my late father was working on before he retired.
-a
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