Firstly, the vast majority of teachers don't have the skills of
knowledge to be able to teach anything other than office skills - and
even then most can't even do that properly!
You can say that again! The school I work at has 50+
teachers. Half of then can
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:54:15 +0100
LeeGroups wrote:
Secondly, the majority of children don't care
about how a computer works (any more than they care how a car works)
- they just want to use it.
Yes, this is very true. Even my own kids aren't bothered despite the
prodding from me. The kids
On 07/06/2011 07:24, alan c wrote:
There is an overwhelming swirl and momentum of the broader
establishment which pulls (I was going to say 'sucks'...) into
Microsoft products.
Absolutely. there was a question in the Daily Telegraph Tech column only
yesterday about opening attachments - the
On 06/06/11 17:57, Paul Tansom wrote:
I don't know how many people watch Click on the BBC News channel, but I thought
I'd note that they had a piece on the Raspberry Pi on the last one (over the
weekend), with a mention of Ubuntu as part of a piece on the lack of decent IT
education in schools
Still haven't seen the BBC click video that started this but I like
where it is going!
I did give a slight thought as how to engage a class to learn a bit of
programming or open (free) software culture. I came up with a silly
idea but I'll just say it.
1) Get the kids to agree what they would
Hi!
You may be interested to know that I'm an adult education tutor, ICT
being one of my subject areas. Just recently I've managed to get our
local adult education service (on North Tyneside) to put on a courses
this autumn dealing with both FOSS and GNU-Linux (specifically Ubuntu),
with me
On 07/06/11 14:58, Bea Groves wrote:
Hi!
You may be interested to know that I'm an adult education tutor, ICT
being one of my subject areas. Just recently I've managed to get our
local adult education service (on North Tyneside) to put on a courses
this autumn dealing with both FOSS and
I don't know how many people watch Click on the BBC News channel, but I thought
I'd note that they had a piece on the Raspberry Pi on the last one (over the
weekend), with a mention of Ubuntu as part of a piece on the lack of decent IT
education in schools and the need to do it better - i.e.
On 6 June 2011 17:57, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
I don't know how many people watch Click on the BBC News channel, but I
thought
I'd note that they had a piece on the Raspberry Pi on the last one (over the
weekend), with a mention of Ubuntu as part of a piece on the lack of decent IT
J Fernyhough wrote:
Firstly, the vast majority of teachers don't have the skills of
knowledge to be able to teach anything other than office skills
This is precisely what's *wanted* in order that IT teachers can teach
IT. At the moment, the IT taught in school is an introduction to using
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:13:29 +0100
J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 June 2011 17:57, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
I don't know how many people watch Click on the BBC News channel,
but I thought I'd note that they had a piece on the Raspberry Pi on
the last one (over the weekend), with a
I agree with much of what you say - I'm going to respond inline for
the discussion.
On 6 June 2011 18:42, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote:
J Fernyhough wrote:
Firstly, the vast majority of teachers don't have the skills of
knowledge to be able to teach anything other than office skills
I have heard with my own ears teachers complaining about applications
having a learning curve. . . why would anyone want to use something in
school that didn't have a learning curve I wonder.
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That is a distinctly good question, I have been using computers, in some shape
or form, since I was a young child, and without giving my age, that is a long
time.
And learn something new everyday, so my learning curve could be considered as
being decades.
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Hiyas,
I'm only on just above 'nodding' terms with edubuntu, but have seen that
they do have a good support group for the newcomers to it. As it is teachers
talking to teachers, they do have a far better understanding of the
specifics for classroom / computer labs than we could ever have. It is
On 6 June 2011 21:07, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Maybe Ubuntu-UK would like to propose 'adopt a school / college' - It would
certainly get the LoCo about 2,000,000 brownie points for 'all the good
things we do' for re-election of the UK LoCo to remain official?
just a thought...
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:19:25 +0100
J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 June 2011 21:07, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Maybe Ubuntu-UK would like to propose 'adopt a school / college' -
It would certainly get the LoCo about 2,000,000 brownie points for
'all the good things we do' for
As some one who pops lubuntu onto old kit, I am certainly up for it in my
local area. My problem being that I do get dragged across England for months
at a time in my job as 'Holding Mananger' for bars (pubs). If I were to
start one here in Warrington, I'd need to know there was some one to take
** J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com [2011-06-06 19:22]:
I agree with much of what you say - I'm going to respond inline for
the discussion.
On 6 June 2011 18:42, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote:
J Fernyhough wrote:
Firstly, the vast majority of teachers don't have the skills of
Click: 4 July 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8133701.stm
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On 04/07/09 09:22, alan c wrote:
Click: 4 July 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8133701.stm
Thanks Alan,
Rather succinct coverage but coverage nevertheless...
Al
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alan c wrote:
Click: 4 July 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8133701.stm
DIgg it?
http://digg.com/linux_unix/BBC_NEWS_Programmes_Click_How_open_source_is_growing_up
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 10 June 2007 23:03
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click includes Ubuntu
The recent weekend TV program of BBC Click was devoted to Open source,
Ubuntu, an an interview with Mark
Alan c wrote:
The recent weekend TV program of BBC Click was devoted to Open source,
Ubuntu, an an interview with Mark Shuttleworth.
I can manage to get it to play using Real player, but I cannot think
of how to capture the stream to view it later.
Alex Latchford wrote:
Robert McWilliam wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:43:31 +0100
alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
which appears to be the url of the wmv file(s) but
rtsp://wm-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/news/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc1/bb/wm/video/click_bb.wmv
by itself does not launch in firefox, what
Alex Latchford wrote:
Robert McWilliam wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:43:31 +0100
alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
which appears to be the url of the wmv file(s) but
rtsp://wm-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/news/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc1/bb/wm/video/click_bb.wmv
by itself does not launch in firefox, what
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:53:32 +0100
Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone up the ante with a better URL or an alternate method to
view/download Click? (ubuntu 7.04 FF)
The method using mplayer elsewhere in this thread (See Alan Pope's
email for complete instructions) worked for me
On 2007-06-12, Jim Kissel wrote:
In my case firefox has a player installed for wmv files and starts to
play this stream in the browser. All I see is the tail end of a bbc
weather forcast. Just the bbc weather logo and about 5 seconds of
sound. Then nothing.
wget doesn't get much.
Can
alan c wrote:
I can manage to get it to play using Real player, but I cannot think
of how to capture the stream to view it later.
Open it using the Windows Media Player.. You will get a .asx file, go to
the source, copy the URL, download that file.. (Using 'File - Save Page
As..').. Then
Andy wrote:
On 10/06/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then you find the address of the actual feed and check it plays in mplayer
If it does (it should do) then add -dumpstream on the command line.
Forgot to mention:
There is an open in standalone player link.
Right click that and chose
On 6/11/07, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy wrote:
On 10/06/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then you find the address of the actual feed and check it plays in mplayer
If it does (it should do) then add -dumpstream on the command line.
Forgot to mention:
There is an open in
Hi Alan,
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 08:16 +0100, alan c wrote:
Note this:-
Then add the flag -playlist to the mplayer command line (the link is
to a .ram, and this is a list of .rm files to play).
Thanks. I have installed mplayer, and trying to begin most simply,
used cl:
Then this:-
Alex Latchford wrote:
alan c wrote:
I can manage to get it to play using Real player, but I cannot think
of how to capture the stream to view it later.
Open it using the Windows Media Player.. You will get a .asx file, go to
the source, copy the URL, download that file.. (Using 'File -
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Alan,
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 08:16 +0100, alan c wrote:
Note this:-
Then add the flag -playlist to the mplayer command line (the link is
to a .ram, and this is a list of .rm files to play).
Thanks. I have installed mplayer, and trying to begin most simply,
used
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:43:31 +0100
alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
which appears to be the url of the wmv file(s) but
rtsp://wm-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/news/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc1/bb/wm/video/click_bb.wmv
by itself does not launch in firefox, what should I now be doing?
thanks
I don't think firefox
Robert McWilliam wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:43:31 +0100
alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
which appears to be the url of the wmv file(s) but
rtsp://wm-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/news/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc1/bb/wm/video/click_bb.wmv
by itself does not launch in firefox, what should I now be doing?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:24:59 +0100
Alex Latchford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just change the protocol to http..
Is that a general feature of rtsp (i.e. rtsp is http + support for
pausing and seeking) or does it rely on the server speaking http as
well as rtsp?
Robert McWilliam wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:24:59 +0100
Alex Latchford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just change the protocol to http..
Is that a general feature of rtsp (i.e. rtsp is http + support for
pausing and seeking) or does it rely on the server speaking http as
well as rtsp?
The recent weekend TV program of BBC Click was devoted to Open source,
Ubuntu, an an interview with Mark Shuttleworth.
I can manage to get it to play using Real player, but I cannot think
of how to capture the stream to view it later.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/
('watch
On 10/06/07, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can manage to get it to play using Real player, but I cannot think
of how to capture the stream to view it later.
Ah there's a simple trick to that.
You need mplayer.
Then you find the address of the actual feed and check it plays in mplayer
If it
On 10/06/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then you find the address of the actual feed and check it plays in mplayer
If it does (it should do) then add -dumpstream on the command line.
Forgot to mention:
There is an open in standalone player link.
Right click that and chose copy link location
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