Edubuntu/Ubuntu courses [fromer: Intro: Richard Weideman - Education Programme Manager]

[Sean Wheller]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:04, Mauricio Hernandez Z. wrote:
> = one =
> In Chile, we are working on an Edubuntu course for teachers and lab
> people. So far, the idea is to at least make the 'structure' of the
> contents and objectives (syllabus you call it in english?) publicly
> available for spanish sepakers and each LoCo team, people interested,
> can build customized classes upon them, considering particular needs,
> backgrounds, etc.

Great, then you may be interested to learn that we are currently also working 
on the second edition of the tuXlab Cookbook. I mention this because it is 
the root from which the Edubuntu Handbook is derived and because the topics 
you touch on are destined to be covered.

Aligned with this, yourself and others on the list may find an I wrote for 
"Linux for You" of interest. You can find the article in the downloads 
section of our website I think this article will give you an idea of how 
tuXlab seeks to position itself going forward, As a Distro neutral 
recommendation upon which schools can standardize. 
[http://www.inwords.co.za/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,39/Itemid,79/]

We would be interest in any collaboration that will further the aims of the 
tuXlab project and that would be of benefit to schools wishing to implement a 
computer center based on the tuXlab recommendations. Again, all are distros 
welcome.

Most certainly a syllabus for teaching tuXlab school teachers and volunteers 
about Edubuntu will be of additional value and should get mention in the 
second edition of tuXlab Cookbook. If such courseware is under open license 
then there may be opportunities for other distributions to play a role in 
developing based on your syllabus, only tailored to there distro.

Can you post your project URL? I would like to take a look and see if we can 
help in some nice way.

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Sean Wheller
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