From Powerthink, Melbourne

[Vu Nguyen]

Thanks for the advice. I will get back with the feedback from teachers.
Have fun.


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:48 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <ubuntu at bugabundo.net
> wrote:

> Olá Vu e a todos.
>
> On Saturday 23 August 2008 06:47:13 Vu Nguyen wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > I don't know where to start but let me introduce myself. I am a IT
> > contractor, mainly work with school in Mebourne, Australia. Recently I
> saw
> > the Edubuntu project and I am very interesting in it. I am going to
> deploy
> > that in one school to see how do the teachers react. From my point of
> view,
> > there are something that will be strong point is Interactive WhiteBoard
> > (IWB). I have seen that recently in Australia now more and more schools
> they
> > are interesting in deploying whiteboard, which is really a board where
> the
> > projector throw the image on, that board is connected with the computer
> and
> > when you click on start, it will act like you click mouse on that.
> Currently
> > those softwares only for Windows, if we can make the board work with
> > Edubuntu, and with the software collection of Edubuntu, it will be a plus
> > and a strong point for us to convince the school to deploy them.
>
> I've made some Ubuntu classes connected to one of those White boards, and
> it works as expected. The pen works as a mouse pointer without any problem.
>
>
> > Also the character regcognition is something that we also should have a
> look at.
>
> I dont know about the char recognition, but I guess you can make Orca to
> work as a virtual keyboard.
>
>
> > A few things to start with.
> >
> > And after that is something that I am looking forward to do:
> > How to mass deploy them (similar to Ghost)
>
> Do try Clonezilla. at least its FOSS, and the development version is based
> on Ubuntu Hardy.
>
>
> > Report package (they currently using Markbook/SAS)
> > Email alternative for Outlook, (they are using Echange server)
>
> Evolution, Thunderbird,Kmail, all good choices for the client side.
> On the server side Postfix (for SMTP), and dovecot (for POP3/IMAP4).
>
>
> > Multimedia (Movie, Video editing): THis is something that I don't think a
> > big problem, seems we have plenty good softwares out there.
> > School admin package....
>
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