Attracting Teacher to FOSS

[Philipp Schröder]

Hi Jim,

> My name is Jim Hutchinson and I am a media specialist at Windsor HS in
> Colorado. I am presenting a session on teaching with FOSS and edubuntu
> this summer at the Technology in Education (TIE) conference in Copper
> Mountain, CO. 

Welcome to our community and thanks for joining the discussion!

> For this session I am trying to develop a list of quality
> education FOSS and some sample lessons for teachers at the conference to
> use as they familiarize themselves with the software and maybe give them
> a start on using it in their classrooms. We hope to demo all this on an
> edubuntu thin-client.

Sounds great!

> I started to think that tapping into the larger community to help
> develop lessons would not only help my session but would also help
> create a centralized location to host a lot of lessons for teachers
> anywhere in the world.

There are quite a few online resources of open educational content /
curriculum materials on the web already (and gaining momentum it
seems)... However, it takes time to actually locate such valuable
resources. Please read on...

> Perhaps something like this already exists, but I could not find
> anything on the edubuntu wiki. I would like to start one. Can anyone
> provide any suggestions on how to get this started, how to develop a
> list of “really good apps” as a starting point for teachers, and how to
> get help from the community to develop lessons for these apps?

Last week, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Sevilla, we worked on a
specification to bring together a resource for (open source) educational
applications, please see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdubuntuApplicationReview

Also, we will shortly launch a community website as a resource for
educators, where we can share our experiences and insights with (open
source) educational applications and (open) educational content /
curriculum materials.

Greetings,
Philipp


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Philipp Schroeder
DIN15 / Information Architecture & Interaction Design
www.din15.org, philipp at din15.org