UbuntuOhio Proposal: Ohio LoCo Education Team
Steve Stalcup
stalcups at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 11:31:37 GMT 2007
TheIdiotThatIsMe!!!! Great thinking!
This is a wonderful Idea, and it falls into Local Support for the Ubuntu
project
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/localFace to Face Local Support
Our worldwide network of Local Community ("LoCo") teams is providing a
strong backbone to our already vast and extensive Ubuntu community. Many
of these teams provide free face to face local support, such as
one-on-one troubleshooting, group sessions, and presentations about
Ubuntu. Why not go and see the full list of teams!
It would be great to pioneer this concept!
*This would fall under the New User Team
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 05:41 -0500, Anthony wrote:
> Howdy everyone on the Ohio LoCo Team!
>
> Note: To avoid any confusion, my proposal does not have anything to do
> with converting education institutions to Linux.
>
> P.S. Note: This topic has also been posted on UF.
>
> Why:
> I am a firm believer that an easy path of transition to Linux is to
> train users in other Free software that is available for both Windows
> and Linux. At my college, I have recently been approved to start my own
> series of workshops and training sessions that will by taught by myself
> on campus and open to the community for free. The subjects in the
> training courses will vary, but many of them deal with training users in
> common basic and intermediate level tasks with Free software. For
> example, one session I'm having is going to be on using and managing
> email with Mozilla Thunderbird. During the session I will explain using
> some extra features of email (copy, blind copy, mailing lists,
> forwarding) and setting up email inside Thunderbird. Another session I
> will be doing will be Expanding The Web (using Firefox) to teach about
> profile management, RSS feeds, extensions, etc. Eventually, once users
> become comfortable with these programs, when we offer to switch them to
> Linux, they wont give up their programs they are comfortable with! When
> you hold your next install fest in your local area that you have been
> training, it can be a selling point that all these programs you've
> trained them in are available in a safer and more customizable environment.
>
> How:
> A good approach to educating users may to be to construct local
> workshops and training courses in your area that is open and free to
> the community. Good locations for this may be your local high school,
> college (or university), or local computer shops (education institutions
> always love an extra boost to public image to the community, and
> computer shops are likely to agree for an increase in customer base).
> Another location may be your local library also.
>
> It has been suggested by Vorian to include Moodle for teaching. I think
> Moodle looks to be a wonderful tool, that may be used to either enhance
> higher level workshops (if you choose to do so) using regional courses,
> and/or also provide higher level coures online state wide. However, for
> lower level courses (such as mine) I believe it would be more effective
> to offer them in person with hands on training, maybe using Moodle for
> expanded teaching outside the workshop or for sharing resources.
>
> Goals:
> *To educate and train users on Free software, including but not limited
> to Linux.
> *To draft proposals for team members to start local workshops.
> *To create and share resources such as lesson plans, class ideas, and
> software CD's.
> *To offer a service to the community for free to advance their skills
> using Free software.
>
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