Packages to add to Edubuntu's 2nd CD

[Theresa]

Hello all!

I've been lurking on this mailing list for quite a long time. But by reading 
this last two emails, I've decided to participate active. 

Next month in February I will start a case study in my ex-high school using 
Edubuntu. It will be a test project and i've tried to soak up as much 
information as possible in the last few months. The link that Gavin posted is 
very useful, especially the Skole Software Overview, even though I will focus 
on Edubuntu, i thought that it was quite useful and I've been looking for 
something similar the last two months. So, thank you Gavin!

That said, I've found various applications that could be useful for students 
during lessons in classes. BUT I haven't really found any applications that 
could be useful for teachers, and if we want schools to jump on the bandwagon 
we need more applications for teachers. 

I have found KEduca, but haven't found it very useful and user-friendly, 
although it combines a BRILLIANT idea. For those who don't know what it is, 
it's an application that lets you build questionaires and multiple choice 
tests, but I haven't really found any pre-made tests that would state an 
example. However, I then logged onto #edu-kde where people told me that this 
application (KEduca) is no longer maintained but they're working on a 
follow-up, which will be better. 
I'm looking specifically for an application that lets teachers administrate 
their pupils marks, which I know for sure that they're using something on 
windows for that. I think the time-table/class schedule could be maintained 
by using SchoolTool?!
And then something similar to KEduca would be nice, in the meantime I will let 
the teachers use OpenOffice Writer for compiling their tests, but a special 
application for that would be neat ;)

Thanks for everyone for creating such wonderful applications and good luck to 
everyone who's starting such a project like me ;)

It's a great day for freedom!

thanks for reading,
all the best
theresa 

Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2007 10:22 schrieb Gavin McCullagh:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2007, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> > I've started a list of potential candidates [1] that I found trolling
> > around the web
>
> You might get some extra inspiration here, if you haven't looked already:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Software?highlight=%28%5EDebianEdu%2F%5B%5
>E%2F%5D%2A%24%29
>
> > and would really like to get feedback on them and other
> > packages to include so please take a look and discuss it.
>
> Is moodle already on the main cd?
> 	http://moodle.org
>
> Not my thing personally, but some might be interested in gnomesword.
> 	http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/
>
> One minor comment.  I don't have any particular issue with the second cd
> but I think it important not to overload edubuntu's default install with
> applications -- in particular the existing philosophy of choosing one
> application per task is a good one in my opinion.  Having two independent
> programs for a given task can cause confusion among groups of users.
>
> Gavin