Wow, it sounds fantastic Steve. I wish I could be there! I hope you find many willing volunteers to help.
Please remember to take lots of photos, and we look forward to the report back afterwards. Regards JaneW On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:37 -0700, Steve Hargadon wrote: > We've just finalized the speakers schedule for the Open Source lab at > the National Educational Computing Conference 2006 in San Diego. Very > exciting. > > We'll have 15 hour-long sessions that will be held in a lab setting > with 25 computers, with some GREAT speakers: > > David Thornburg: "When Best is Free: An Educator's Guide to Open Source" > Michelle Moore: "Use Your Noodle, Learn Moodle: An Open Source > Learning Management System" (3 sessions - boy is she popular!) > Will Richardson: "Learning With Blogs: Bringing the Read/Write Web > Into the Classroom" > Jeffrey Elkner: "A Tour of Ubuntu with Free CD" > Jenny Horn: "Hello World: Starting at the Very Beginning with PHP" > Bryant Patten: "Open Source Technology: Why Teachers Should Care" > Tim Frichtel: "Great Web Sites with Open Source Content Management Systems" > Steve Hargadon: "K12LTSP: Low-cost, Stable, and Reliable Computer Labs" > Chris Walsh: "Content is STILL King: FREE Blogging & Content Management > Systems" > James Klein: "Creating Communities with Open Source Tools" > Tom Hoffman: "SchoolTool: a Free, Open Source SIS and Calendaring System" > Vernon Ceder: "Computer Programming for Everybody: Teaching > Programming with Python" > > We'll also have a "birds of a feather" meeting on Open Source software > in K12 schools, to be followed by a proposed dinner event with those > interested in talking about the future of Open Source software in > Education. > > Mike Huffman from Indiana has also said that he will be attending, and > we're going to try and find a venue for his participation as > well--many of us are very interested in an update on the Indiana > ACCESS program! > > In addition to the Open Source lab, we'll have a "Playground" area > with 6 booths to showcase different Open Source technologies > real-time. Currently planned are booths for: > > SchoolTool & CanDo 2006 (A FREE, Web-Based, Competency Tracker) > Ubuntu & Fedora Core > Moodle & Moodle e-portfolio > Open Office & Firefox > Gimp > Asterisk & Mambo/Joomla > > We do need people/students who can help staff these booths! Please > let me know if you might be able to help organize some booth support! > > -- > Steve Hargadon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 916-899-1400 direct > -- JaneW _____________ Jane Weideman mobile: +27 83 779 7800 Canonical Ltd. -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
