Re: [seul-edu] Software selection for ISO--volunteers needed!

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

Kseg and Kgeo and DrGenius ought to be on any distro to be used in a
geometry class.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
<schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>; seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: [seul-edu] Software selection for ISO--volunteers needed!


>Jason Neiffer, Daniel Carter, Mark Schmitt, and Jeff (no last name
>given :-) ) have agreed to evaluate software in the SEUL/edu
>Educational Applications Index to find candidates for inclusion in
>the ISO we're planning to develop.  That's a start, but we need
>others to help!  Let's hear from you!
>
>Jason, since you teach Social Studies and Speech, could you check
>out the Social Studies (4 entries) category?  You might also look at
>the Geography (6 entries) category, although that looks like it has
>programs that would mostly be useful at an upper grade level.  I see
>you also teach Speech.  The Language category has 62 entries and is
>ripe for dividing into multiple categories, as it includes
>dictionaries, foreign language tutors, spelling programs, etc.  The
>Reading category (13 entries) is perhaps a category you could
>evaluate (do you teach at the elementary level, or higher?).  If you
>want to look at Language, try to divide the category into smaller
>subcategories and let us know what they are and which entries are in
>each, then pick one to evaluate.  We'll try to get others to look at
>the other subcategories.
>
>Mark, since you're a high school math teacher, could you look at the
>Math (43 entries) category?  If you could suggest appropriate
>subcategories as mentioned above, that would be useful too.
>
>Jeff, you don't say what you teach.  What category or categories
>would meet you areas of expertise?
>
>Daniel, you say you're not a teacher.  Do you have any teacher
>friends you could enlist to help select potential candidates for
>inclusion in the ISO?
>
>Folks, we need people to go through all the categories.  Some of
>them are pretty large and should probably be divided into multiple
>smaller, more precise categories.  You can help us by suggesting
>appropriate subdivisions, too.  I'll list the categories and the
>number of entries in each here, and I hope more of us will come
>forward to say, "I'll go through that category for you."  Also,
>there's no reason why more than one person couldn't look through the
>same category.  Let's hear from you!
>
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