Re: [seul-edu] material for schoolforge frontpage

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Roger Dingledine wrote:
> 
> * Current news and headlines for open source software in education
>     http://opensourceschools.org/
> 
> * Case studies and success stories of open source software in schools
>     http://richtech.ca/seul/casedex.html
>     http://www.k12ltsp.org/casestudy.html
>     http://www.osef.org/
>     Riverdale, Beacon, etc
> 
> * Ready-made educational software packages
>   * for students (deb, rpm)
>     http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
>   * for teachers (deb, rpm)
>   * for school admins (deb, rpm)
>   * for system admins (deb, rpm)
> 
> * Download a CD of school-related software (students, sysadmins)
>     http://linuxforkids.com/ (students)
>     http://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/K12LTSP/ (sysadmins)
>     plus 'teachers' if we make a cd for them
> 
There are a bunch here that you've missed, although I realize this isn't
intended to be a comprehensive list: kmLinux, Le Projet SLIS, etc.

> * Search a list of in-progress educational applications and reviews
>     http://linuxforkids.com/
>     http://www.ofset.org/freeduc/
>     http://richtech.ca/seul/
>     http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
> 
Here we probably want to mention the particual focus of each group;
Debian-specific, GNU free software only, etc.

> * Weekly reports on the status of the Linux in education community
>     http://www.seul.org/edu/reports.html
> 
Umm, the reports are every other week.  What's that called?  I've been
saying fortnightly, which is probably correct but sounds a bit funny.

> * Discuss Linux in education -- mailing list (list archives), wiki
>   http://www.seul.org/edu/
>   http://www.seul.org/archives/seul/edu/
>   http://eduwiki.seul.org:8080/ and others
> 
> * Educational software development and hosting resources
>     http://www.seul.org/pub/hosting.html
>     http://edu.kde.org/projects/
>     http://www.ofset.org/
> 
> * Comprehensive (unsorted) list of free software education projects
>   worldwide
>   http://seuldat.seul.org/
>   (once we compile it from www.seul.org/edu/links.html and others)
> 
> 
> On the plate later: (somebody want to set up these pages, and the material
>                      behind them? You could be famous!)
> * Volunteer to help! I'm a:
>   Student
>   Teacher
>   School Admin
>   Sysadmin

This is already here, although not heavily used.  Our own Bill
Ries-Knight set up the Linux Educational Needs Posting Pages on
http://www.linuxhelpers.org quite some time ago.

> * Press releases and publicity
>   http://opensourceschools.org?
>   Red Hat's PR team?
> * Advocating free software to
>   * schools
>     (and even various types of schools)
>     * to teachers
>     * to school admins
>   * governments
>   * corporations
> * Donate money to the Linux in Education non-profit (tax deductable)
> * Find people who are donating hardware in your area
>   eg computerbank
> * Curricula for teachers for better using Linux in the classroom
>   * Ready-to-use curricula
>   * Help write new ones
>     http://itp.innoved.org/wiki/freecourse (?)
>     http://richtech.ca/testbank/ (?)

Don't forget Gunnar Stefansson's Tutor-Web <http://www.tutor-web.net>

> * Search LUG contacts worldwide
>   Find educational volunteer contacts local to you

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