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Schoolstech.org.uk wants your input

Submitted by putt1ck on Tue, 17/01/2012 - 10:58am

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Naace and the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), working with the Department for Education, have created a site to encourage a public discussion on the implications of new technology developments in English schools, building on the impetus created by Micheal Gove's speech at BETT.

Google Code-In

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 6:51am

Alison Daniel-Cutler of Google's pre-university education team writes:

Code In is Google's contest to introduce pre-university students (age 13-17 years old) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. It runs from November 21, 2011 to January 16, 2012. We invite students worldwide to produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for the organizations participating this year. Find out more about tasks here and take part to be in with a chance of winning some great prizes!
Launch blog post: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-code-in-are-you-in....
Further details: http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2011-12
Code-In contest website: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2011

We’re looking forward to a fun contest this year and hope you’ll participate yourself if you are eligible or spread the word to friends, family, and colleagues about the program.

If you have any further questions please email the contest discussion list and one of the contest administrators will be happy to point you in the right direction.

Alsa Modular Synthesiser

By nerak99 - Posted on October 25th, 2011

I have been playing with a piece of software call Alsa Modular Synthesiser(AMS) for a long time. AMS is an emulation of an Analog Synthesiser and this piece of software would allow someone to cover the contents of the A-level music Technology section on Analog Synthesis. The Analog Synthesiser of choice would be a Moog (pronounced to rhyme with Vogue). Unfortunately they are rather large and expensive. This piece of software is one example of two Analog Synth programmes that I have come across. The other one runs on Macs and I saw it at the RNCM. I believe it is fairly expensive. I put this tutorial together for a colleague who9 teaches A-level Music Tech and it was getting this software installed in the Music suite that drove me to implement the Active Directory link that I added to another Blog a few Months back. The Tutorial is here http://sciencensums.co.uk/lifetype/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=2&...

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Shib report - Why it isn't working as planned

By johnyma22 - Posted on October 19th, 2011

Might be of interest to some people: http://john.primarypad.com/single-sign-on-writeup

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Schools and OSS

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Sight reading software

By nerak99 - Posted on October 18th, 2011

I have come across a piece of OSS software for practising skills in keyboard playing. (well any midi instrument I suppose). It is written in java and I have dome tests on Openjava as well as on a Mac. I have done a review here http://sciencensums.co.uk/lifetype/. I suppose I could do a review of lifetype as well, quite nice blogging software. Jaimus allows you to practise skills and get some feedback without having to have a music teacher on your shoulder giving you feedback. I think that especially the Rhythm work is useful for someone wanting to practise skills on their own. You can practise sight reading, Intervals and Rhythms as well as have a go on a number of games that are built in. I have documented some issues about latency which is probably a programming issue but overall, I think this is something that fille a gap in multiplatform OSS.

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Tuxedu

By Optymystic - Posted on August 25th, 2011

Tony Sales of Herefordshire Linux User Group (HLUG) has created a CD for schools, Tuxedu which at present comprises the following in its draft primary school version.

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