Application Evaluation.

[Miles Berry]

Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> To start on that, what about simply listing for each teaching domain the
> most important need, then evaluate what we have in the community?
> 
Have a glance at 
http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Free%2C_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_solutions_for_Education 
where we've built up a list of FLOSS applications by subject area.

I've just spent a fun couple of hours going through the UK Govt. 'model' 
schemes of work for ICT trying to work out what Open Source applications 
would work for each unit - rather than posting here, I've added this to 
the schoolforge uk wiki at 
http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/ICT_Curriculum
Do bear in mind that:
a) We don't follow the schemes very closely at St Ives
b) We don't go above 11
c) We still have Win98 desktops, so I've not used any of the programs 
here in a class situation!
Please register with schoolforge.uk and edit away to your hearts' 
content, or copy the stuff over to the edubuntu wiki if it's of more 
than local relevance.

> As a maths teacher I can tell in this domain, for secondary education:
> 
> 	-spreadsheet (calc, gnumeric),
> 	-interactive geometry (drgeo,kig)
> 	-cas (maxima - better used from texmacs)
> 	-text editing (openoffice,texmacs)
> 	-plotting (geg -we've i18n it-, kmplot)
> 	-3D geometry (nothing yet)
> 
> 
> If necessary, I can have a closer look for primary school ones as well.
> 
As a primary maths teacher, I'd say yes please for calc and kig. I use 
moodle every day, but that's on the list anyhow and isn't just for 
maths. I'd also want kturtle and some vector drawing stuff (OOo Draw?). 
Most of the other stuff we use is webbased, but some of it needs flash 
or shockwave, sorry :-(

The other things I'd miss if moving to Linux are (perhaps) my 
interactive whiteboard (still to test the Linux driver under ubuntu), 
the ability to record a lesson on the whiteboard in audio and flash, and 
my electronic voting thingies (see http://www.turningtechnologies.com/)


-- 
Miles Berry
Deputy Head
St Ives School Haslemere
www.stiveshaslemere.com