On Tuesday 17 October 2006 19:23, you wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:45, Don Gould wrote: > >> Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >>> And what's the recipe to get tyro geeks to pay attention while they are > >>> in English Language classes at school? > >> > >> Send them to linux call instead and get the linux geek to teach them > >> linux. > > > > You don't mean a lesson on "HOWTO - read a manual page" do you? :-)/2 I fear you may have misunderstood my little emoticon here ----------^^^^^ because the meaning I intended it to have was "Half in Jest"
> Are you refering to my 'Library Time' content each week Chris? > > Yes, each week we spend 15 to 20 minutes looking at resources in the > Library and one the library web site. > > When the group started only one of the students had a library card and > knew how to use the reservation system. > > Now they all have cards, even the out of towners. > > We also spend some time reviewing different book and talking about the > importance of reading books because it's a major income source for OSS. > > Or are you talking about the content from Lesson One? > > Yes, in lesson one they learnt about the man system in Linux. That all sounds absolutely splendid, seriously. > >> LES class is 10:30am - 2pm every thursday and I'm still waiting for your > >> presentation Chris :) > > > > And what do you think the material in the presentation should be? > > I've got the vnc2swf thingie to go, but need to know HOWTO add sound and > > convert to an avi. Got any ideas? > > That sounds like a fantastic idea once you've got the audio side sorted > out. I was hoping that you might be able to help me with the tecnicalities for that. I seem to remember that you made a posting about it a little time ago. > I can do an over view of what vnc, swf and avi are the week before. That's a good idea. > Or... you could do a lession on setting up vnc and more on x and kde > first if you wanted to? I was thinking of using the vnc, swf and avi things as a teaching medium rather than as the subject matter of a lesson, but if you think there would be interest I'd be happy to show off how to set it all up once I've got everything going correctly.
