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Subject:    [kde-edu]: Re: KDE edu in schools
From:       Thomas Thym <ungethym () mevin ! net>
Date:       2011-01-08 14:21:25
Message-ID: 201101081521.25768.ungethym () mevin ! net
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Hi Martijn,

sorry for my late response.

I am not a member of the core kde edu team (yet) but I promote KDE at various places \
in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. In Nov. we were in Austria where the Linux Day \
took place in a school. We had a couple very interesting conversations with students, \
parents and teachers. My impression is, that they are really open for our software. \
"This way education really is fun." was one of the statements of a girl.  KDE \
(software and community) has something really valuable to offer for schools and their \
students. Although there might be room for improvement.

During those events I meet the team from desktop4education / server4education project \
from Austria. The project was started by a teacher and 2 of his students and now is \
heavily sponsored by their government. With their software (a distribution based on \
openSUSE) a school could install desktops for classrooms and various completely \
configured servers (e-mail, cms, databases, moodle etc.) with 3 (desktop) or 5 \
questions (server). More information (in German) on their website: http://d4e.at/ I \
am sure Helmut (helmuth@d4e.at) will be pleased to answer your questions. 

I like your intention and your work towards pushing open source software in education \
and I think we should all work together to get this done. If there is something we or \
in person I could do let us/me know an keep us/me informed about that important \
project.

Keep on rocking!

Cheers,
Thomas
 



On Thursday 23 December 2010 16:34:41 wrote Martijn van Duren:
> Thank you for your quick responds.
> 
> Are you aware of any project that does work towards these goals?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Martijn van Duren
> 
> Sebastian Stein schreef op do 23-12-2010 om 16:20 [+0100]:
> > Martijn van Duren <martijn987@gmail.com> [101223 16:13]:
> > > Through these talks I came to the KDE edu suite. Since I can't afford to
> > > look deeply into the entire documentation to find these answers and also
> > > because I want to get some insight from and to get some discussion with
> > > the people directly related to this project I post my questions here:
> > 
> > Judging from your questions, I think you are looking for something else. KDE
> > Edu is a collection of edutainment apps. For example, you got one for
> > learning vocabulary and another one for exploring the stellar system on your
> > computer. However, those apps don't track learning progress and are not
> > integrated in the sense of having some kind of server backend to track pupil
> > records.
> > 
> > The use-case is different. I would expect that a math teacher for example
> > uses Kig as part of his lessons to allow pupils to do geometry on the
> > computer. But he won't use Kig to track the progress of his students.
> > 
> > To get an idea of the applications available, take a look here:
> > 
> > http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 
> > Sebastian
> 
> 
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