Re: [school-discuss] Recommendations for NECC presentation

[Harry McGregor <micros@osef.org>]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:04, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:16:38 -0400
> Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net> wrote:
> 
>       As most of you know, I'll be going to NECC (the National Educational 
>       Computing Conference) in Seattle at the end of the month with Harry 
>       McGregor of OSEF and Paul Nelson of K12OS.  I'll be representing both 
>       SEUL/edu and Schoolforge as a whole (both Harry and Paul will also 
>       represent Schoolforge in addition to their own groups).  I have a 
>       presentation to give on July 2 (the last day of the conference) about 
>       Linux software in education.  I'd like to demonstrate both a courseware 
>       application and an administrative application.

I would recommend presenting Gcompris, TuxType2 (just plain tuxtype on
the knoppix for kids), and tuxpaint, all three should be dooable.  Will
you have a projector?  Do you need a projector or laptop?

If you need help let me know, I have my slides ready for linux world,
and will have them on my laptop with me.

Anything I can do to help, send me an email directly
(hmcgregor@osef.org).

		Harry

>   For the courseware one, 
>       it seems obvious to use GCompris, since it just won a prize and is 
>       included on the Freeduc bootable CD.  For the administrative one, I'd 
>       like to get some suggestions.
> 
> Beware the GCompris version in the freeduc-cd 1.3 has some problem with
> refresh drawing. It is due to a bug in Gnome Canvas 2.x. I think this
> bugs has been fixed since now. However GCompris is perfectly usable but
> I just want to tell you before your discover some odd redrawing by yourself.
> 
> Another application you may want to show is WIMS. Wims is a server of
> mathematic exercices but in fact it is much more than that because it
> can be used in sort of distance learning. With Wims a teacher can
> prepare work sheet for the students, the sheet is prepared with
> exercices coming from a common database of exercices. Then the student
> just need to use a browser to use WIMS and connect to their virtual
> classroom. Of course, WIMS record the sucess and failure to the
> exercices.  Also teacher can create new exercices, their is a dedicated
> langage for that. WIMS can be used from primary up to the university. It
> may ask you some time to prepare a speach on that software, it has a lot
> of possibilities.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hilaire Fernandes