Greetings fellow Ubunteros, The Colorado LoCo team has recently begun preparing for the Technology In Education (TIE) Conference that is being held in Colorado this June. One of our members, Jim Hutchinson, is going to be giving a 3 hour seminar on the use of Free/Open Source Software in the realm of Education and will be focusing heavily on Edubuntu along with the thin-client abilities that it holds. The presentation is going to be held in a giant computer lab allowing the teachers to work on Edubuntu thin-clients right as Jim is explaining the features of Linux and FOSS software. (For more details on our conference presence please see http://wiki.edubuntu.com/TIEColorado )
One of the goals of this presentation is to show teachers that there are tons of uses for the Edubuntu software suite in the classroom, and to do this we need to create approximately 20 lesson plans that use educational programs found in Edubuntu for middle school and high school classrooms. We would hope to give the teachers at least an hour to go through these lesson plans and their attached files to see the power and usefulness of Linux in the classroom. Our team is trying to work with Jim to get these lesson plans created, but we simply do not have the time to create as many as we would like. That being said, we are appealing to the community of Ubuntu users from all over the world to step in and help us if you have a free hour or two of your time to create a lesson plan. We've created a wiki page detailing the progress of our lesson plan creation at https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Lessons and you can find a sample lesson at https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Lessons/Kalzium . You can find a list of suggested programs that we have compiled to use for lessons at the bottom of our main TIEColorado wiki page ( https://wiki.edubuntu.org/TIEColorado ). If any of you have any experience with these programs please let us know how you can help! We hope to see this grow into a large repository of teaching plans based on Edubuntu for the entire community, not just this one conference. If you are comfortable with wiki editing, please feel free to add your lesson directly to our lessons page ( https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Lessons ). However, if you would prefer to just email us a document with your lesson plan and any necessary attached files please direct them to myself ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I will work with our team to convert them into wiki format and have the necessary attachments uploaded as well. Thank you for your time and assistance! Feel free to contact me directly with any questions that you would have. Cheers, David Overcash Colorado LoCo Team Leader -- --------------------------------------------------------- http://www.funnylookinhat.com AIM: FunnyLookinHat ICQ: 40145621 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: irc.freenode.net --------------------------------------------------------- -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
