Edubuntu: some observations.......contd

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 12.01.2006, 09:41 +0000 schrieb raj kumar sarkar:
> While availability of internet connection solves a lot of problems,
> the absence of it totally changes the scenario. No internet connection
> means no "apt-get"-ing. So installing new application becomes almost
> impossible for us. And unavailability of any kind of internet
> connection is the ground reality in major part of the world. 
did you ever try the DVD iso ? it contains all of main and restricted...

> Another major issue is related to educational software. While GCompris
> and KDEdu is excellent for students upto class VII-VIII. But for
> students from class IX-XII there are hardly any good software. There
> are a hell lot of stuff on mathematics (ploting, geometry), chemistry
> (Ghemical, Kalzium),but subjects like History, Geography, Life
> Scieinces are very badly covered. In a poor country like ours if we
> can have some virtual subsitute of real world school-lab experiment
> then it would benifit the students like anything. 
Kalzium is included, since we never ever will duplicate applications in
main, we choose kalzium instead of ghemical, several teachers that were
at the summit preferred it. did you see that we have kig and kmplot
included by default, if thats not enough for basic plotting and geometry
work, please suggest a replacement, but please note as well that we only
have 700MB of space on the CD so the apps shouldnt be hilariously big.
i fully agree with the geography and life science arguments, do you know
some good apps here ? the history stuff is a bit complicated, since you
need content for it which will most likely be localized.
> 
> We also need to develop age-wise or class-based curriculum. Say for
> example the menu itself may contain items like "Age5"/"Age6" or "Std
> V"/"std VI" etc. In the next level these items would open links to
> applications suitable for that particular group. 
a age based selection for the themes is included in dapper, based on
this selection the plan was to have task driven menus in dapper+1. 
i.e. if you have a primary math class, the menu should only show apps
that are related to the current class. there should be predefined menu
profiles (editable indeed) for different topics that respect the over
all age selection.
> 
> I think we (particularly the developers and educators) can propose
> preliminary list of applications suitable for a particular group,
> which can later be finalised. 
its a bit late for dapper to introduce big changes (one week left before
upstream version freeze), but it would be nice to have a discussion
about default apps starting now to have a rock solid list for dapper+1
we all agree on.
> 
> Another major issue is content development in local language. I have
> found the local language support to be mostly limited. We need some
> good quality content development application with local language
> support. 
mauricio has started some effort for the chilenian team here, i dont
know the status, but his plan was to have localized content metapackages
with teaching material...

ciao
	oli
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