[UCLP] Updating Camara Skill Building material

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Vagn Bjørno <vagn at fairdanmark.dk> wrote:
> Hello to all on this list,
>
> In FAIR Denmark we're in dire need for training materials for our projects
> in Malawi. We've found the Skill Building material from Camara useful, but a
> bit outdated, so we've decided to update and revise the material (it is
> GPL'd) to cover the syllabus for International Computer Driving Licence -
> Equal Skills with Edubuntu.

That's great!

> Unfortunately I haven't monitored this mailing list closely, so it's not
> until now that I've noticed the excellent paper by Jasna Benčić (thank you
> Jasna, it was a pleasure reading :-).
>
> Any kind of collaboration, proof reading (I'm not native English speaking),
> comments and anything else would be much appreciated.
>
> Notes on the project can be found at:
> http://www.fairdanmark.dk/en/wiki/Education/EdubuntuEqualSkills/. The wiki
> page has links to the docbook code on launchpad and to the prelimary html
> version of the basics course material.

Our current efforts are really focused on creating materials that are
structured as teaching materials to be used in classrooms by teachers
used to having a syllabus and work items for students. It looks like
the materials from Camara are more pdf-based so don't conflict *too
much* with the work we're doing here.

If anyone on list is interested in helping with this effort, where are
you doing the work? Is it somewhere where people can collaborate on
it?

I actually spoke with some Edubuntu folks at the last in-person Ubuntu
Developer Summit about creating something similar, so I might be
interested in pitching in too.

<snip>
> About me:
> I'm retired and work as a voluntary for FAIR Denmark.
> Started working with computers back in the 60's (then called punch card
> machines :-), bought my first computer in the beginning of the 80's (a toy,
> really :-), have been a GNU/Linux user for 15 years.
> I've taught computing for more than a decade, both evening classes and as
> full time teacher, almost entirely with propriatery systems and software,
> and have mostly made my training material myself - in my native language,
> Danish, of course.
> I know xml, but have not much in-dept knowledge of docbook, so I'm learning
> by doing :-)
> I value Freedom.

Glad to have you! :)

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Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2
http://www.princessleia.com