Ubuntu in Education resources from Canonical
Belinda Lopez
belinda.lopez at canonical.com
Thu Sep 2 13:50:13 UTC 2010
Wow - I've already been blown away by the work being done in the
Education sector. Ubuntu in schools, just makes sense. Yesterday I was
directed to this great map showing schools in Finland with Ubuntu
deployments:
http://bit.ly/amFiOO and more on what is happening around open source
there:
http://www.opinsys.fi/en/mista-on-hyvat-koulu-tehty
http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-over-a-hundred-schools-using-open-source
And next week I'm visiting a local school in Houston, TX that has
migrated to Ubuntu/Moodle and lots of other open source offerings. The
project leaders is also the Moodle Core Contrib coordinator so I will
ask how we can get more folks interested in helping with the technical
side of Ubuntu/Edubuntu.
I'll keep plugging away at coordinating all this great info and have
also started updating some of the wiki pages. Great stuff folks! Let's
keep the momentum going!
Belinda
On 09/01/2010 08:05 PM, David Groos wrote:
> Nice! Cool things are happening...
>
> Belinda, I just got an e-mail from someone who was looking to install
> LTSP on edubuntu lucid and was asking what he needed beyond the
> instructions on this page
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installlucid> I had written. I
> referred him to this page
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installLTSPlucid> as well as the
> basicsetup page
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook/BasicSetup>.
> From my point of view, a critical resource would be a complete set of
> tutorials on setting up a LTSP lab in a school with Lucid. It needs
> an easily-updatable pathway to create a 10.10 BasicSetup page... With
> a good 'Hub' page Edubuntu would be open to many more tech inclined
> educators...
>
> Good luck
> David
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline at meekshome.com
> <mailto:caroline at meekshome.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Belinda,
>
> You might want to talk to Maine Open 1 to 1 (open1to1.org
> <http://open1to1.org>) they are a Ubuntu netbook remix remix that
> is being used by a couple thousand students in Maine on netbooks.
> There are also deployments in NH and VT. They just started last
> year, this year they are working on being more involved in the
> Ubuntu community. We are also working to put Sugar, which is
> currently being ported to Ubuntu (Ubuntu Sugar Remix) into this
> remix also.
>
> I am working with the Boston area Ubuntu community and folks from
> Tufts and Harvard to do a stick based deployment in Somerville
> where we will give families in housing projects refurbished
> computers and each person in the family a bootable USB sticks with
> Open 1 to 1 (or maybe a different mix of software for the
> parents). We will work with community computer centers to give
> classes and use these spaces to provide internet access.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Thanks for doing this work.
>
> Caroline
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Belinda Lopez
> <belinda.lopez at canonical.com <mailto:belinda.lopez at canonical.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Greetings all!
> I'm working on a short-term assignment to review and update
> Canonical's Ubuntu in Education resources. This includes
> making the
> various websites easier to use for end user like students,
> parents,
> educators as well as solution providers and others who want to do
> business in the Education market place using Ubuntu and its
> derivatives. The Education sector is an important space on
> many levels
> to both Canonical and Ubuntu. I can't make any promises other
> than it
> being a personal goal of mine to help drive the adoption of
> Ubuntu in
> Education at every level so for starters I'm opening up the
> dialog with
> the community on best to use the limited resources Canonical
> currently
> has to develop some new content for the following audiences:
>
> End users: students, parents, educators
> School level adoptions: decision makers
> District/regional deployments; policy makers
> Solution Providers: those delivering services and hardware to the
> Education sector.
>
> If you have any thoughts on what each audience needs to know
> please
> voice your thoughts here or email me privately. I've also
> added this
> item to the Edubuntu meeting agenda to help further the
> conversation.
>
> Also, does anyone have idea of how many schools might be using
> Ubuntu/Edubuntu? or if there is some place we can ask people
> to let us
> know about their schools?
>
> thanks,
>
> Belinda/dinda
>
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