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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