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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    [kde-edu-devel] Linux/Open Source in Education Resources
From:       Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-07-13 9:50:38
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After talking to some people at LinuxTag, it became apparent that there hasn't 
been much interaction between the KDE Edu project and other organizations 
trying to promote Linux and Open Source in education.

So, I thought a first step would be to start to look around on the web and see 
what's out there.  I emailed several of these groups and asked them to place 
http://edu.kde.org/ in their links/resources section and joined the mailing 
lists of both SEUL and SchoolForge.  

It would be nice to start some cooperation with these groups to help get more 
exposure for KDE Edu.  If I see anything particularly exciting I'll forward 
it on to kde-edu.  

Here's what I came up with:

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*) OpenSourceSchools.org - Fostering Free & Open Source Curricula, Software 
and Thought in School

http://opensourceschools.org/

This is a really well organized site, with some rather useful information.  
One of the things that you see there is the "Linux in education report" which 
seems to come out rather often.  I'm not sure, but this may be something from 
one of the SEUL mailing lists.  More on that shortly.
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*) SEUL/edu

http://seul.org/edu/

This seems to be one of the best known educational sites on the web.  They do 
application reviews, etc.  The also host their own mailing list and the 
SchoolForge mailing list (I signed up for both.).
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*) SchoolForge Linux Case Studies

http://casestudy.seul.org/

This is hosted on SEUL, which has some connection to SchoolForge.  Anyway, 
this is *really* useful stuff -- it's examples of how schools are using Open 
Source/Linux.  Eva and I had talked about trying to put together a similar 
list at LinuxTag, but it looks like a lot of the work has been done (yay!).
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*) SchoolForge

http://www.schoolforge.net/

These guys seem to be trying to organize a place to collaborate between the 
different education efforts.  I joined their mailing list.
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*) K12Linux in Schools Project

http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/index.html
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*) Open Source Education Foundation Website

http://www.osef.org/
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*) Linux in der Schule

http://www.suse.de/de/products/books/data/data_buecher/3_934678_21_1.html

I think I will email this author in the near future to see what he covers in 
the book and to see if he has any helpful information about where and how 
Linux is being used in schools.  (I remember him emailing this list a long 
time ago.).
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There's more out there, but this seemed like a good start.

Cheers,

-Scott

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