<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for the ideas, Dan. I'm thinking about it already.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Maybe someone can answer some technical questions.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1. Suppose I decide to put up short "how to" movies: screen captures showing how to do various things in a spreadsheet, for example. What format would be best? Quick time? Something else?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2. It would be interesting to collect student work, and also a good opportunity for students to practice writing for public consumption. Is there a good way for students to upload files to somewhere? Should I be worrying about viruses?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 27, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Dan McGarry wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Susan Addington wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm new to the list, having only heard about Ubuntu last week.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Welcome to the Edubuntu community!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm in the process of developing a math curriculum/course/textbook for U.S. college students planning to be elementary teachers. I hope to publish this commercially, but I think making some of the activities available for any students/teachers to use is a good idea.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[details snipped]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">My curriculum is not ready to just give to a teacher or student, by any means. But I'd be interested in having someone try to use some of it with middle grades students (say age 10 and up.)</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As you probably already know, one of the biggest benefits of working in FOSS is when other community members lend a hand. Would you be willing to release the document(s), even if they're still rough, to the public under a suitable license (Creative Commons or GNU Documentation License, perhaps) so that we can evaluate, provide feedback and possibly improve on the work?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm currently working in Vanuatu, a Least Developed Country where learning resources like these are very thin on the ground. I'm not a teacher myself (I'm a systems and programming geek), but the computer centres I set up would really benefit from materials designed for use with (Ed)ubuntu. I suspect it would be a great opportunity to vet the work, as students here come with a limited academic background. If the concepts and exercises are clear for them, they'll likely be clear for students in US schools, for example.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm a big fan of the 'release early, release often' approach to content and software development, and I think this is a perfect opportunity to practise that. 8^)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best regards,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dan McGarry<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:it.psl@fsp.org.vu">it.psl@fsp.org.vu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">IT Consultant</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Community Communications Project</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Susan Addington</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:saddingt@csusb.edu">saddingt@csusb.edu</A>, <A href="mailto:susan.addington@earthlink.net">susan.addington@earthlink.net</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Math Department, California State University, San Bernardino</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>