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Subject: [Kde-edu-news] KDE-Edu Newsletter #10
From: Anne-Marie Mahfouf <a-m.mahfouf () lineone ! net>
Date: 2002-09-01 14:53:00
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01 September 2002
Newsletter #10 from the KDE-Edu team
As it's now time to go back to school, here is the newsletter number 10 from
the KDE-Edu project. The project ultimate aim is to create educational
software based around KDE, the K Desktop Environment and all our projects are
under an Open Source license (mainly GPL or Artistic License). This
newsletter keeps you informed of the state of this project.
Website
http://edu.kde.org
What's new?
On August 22nd 2002, the KDE Project released KDE 3.1 Beta1, an experimental
snapshot of the current CVS tree that will become KDE 3.1 final. That means
that the new KDE-Edu applications or new features in existing applications
can be found in that beta release.
Please see
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.1beta1.html
for more details.
As it was holiday time, the development has slowed a bit but we are still
trying to define the best strategy for developing the best educational
software.
We started a discussion ([kde-edu-devel] possible design math
apphttp://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-edu-devel&m=102906378818449&w=2)
about a mathematical application, which should be based on a plugin-system
and offer these basic functions:
- learning something, with imediate feedback if an answer is correct or not.
- training: do the exercises as fast as possible
- feedback at the end of a set of exercises
- some flashcard approach, where exercises with incorrect answers come up
again
- exercises embedded in games
- statistics
- .... (whatever teachers come up with)
Part of our difficulties is to come up with an attractive user interface for
each application. If you are using educational software that you find useful
and well designed, please send us a screenshot of the interface as well as an
explanation of the software.
In France: Debian Éducation
The Debian Project has always been keen to promote eduware through the Debian
Jr. Project.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
In France, the Debian Éducation CD is out to be tested in schools. Back in
1998, the French Board of Education committed itself to promoting the use of
Free Software, especially in high schools, where it was less widely used than
in universities. In 2001, the Conseil Général de Seine-et-Marne decided to
provide high schools with 2,000 Linux-operated computers, in order to test
the efficiency and useability of both the OS and the registered applications.
To make it possible, Logidée, a company specialized in providing professional
training and consulting on Linux, has kindly packaged all the applications
for the Debian distribution, customized the installer and the desktop to make
it possible for teachers to use it. The resulting bootable ISO image can be
downloaded here :
ftp://ftp.logidee.com/debian-educ/iso/ (main site)
Project link (in French):
http://logiciels-libres-cndp.ac-versailles.fr/index.html
This is a very encouraging first step to get free software in schools!
You can find a HTML version of this newsletter at
http://edu.kde.org/newsletter/newsletter10.phtml
The KDE-Edu team
kde-edu@edu.kde.org
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