It's getting close to the 1 year anniversary of Open Source School's web presence, and so we'd like to invite you to contribute to a review of our first year and planning for our future.
We'd be very grateful for any feedback you can provide on the development of the community so far: we're particularly interested in your views on
- things that have been particularly helpful,
- any stories of how this community has affected your practice in schools - for example,
- have you tried out new software after something you've read here? If so, how did this go?
- have any of our materials made it easier to persuade school leadership to consider open source software?
- has anything on this site encouraged you to contribute to open source projects?
We'd also be very pleased to hear any feedback on the Unconference in July if you joined us for this - what aspects of this did you find helpful? Is this something we should repeat? Should it be organized differently?
Finally, if you have ideas for how the community and the website should move forward in the months ahead, we'd be very pleased to hear them.
Rather than completing a survey, please just provide any feedback you have below, or via the contact form.











There is a lot of introductory teaching material on AI and general programming, including 2-D graphics. Some of the teaching materials make use of specialised libraries, e.g. for natural language processing, vision, logic programming, rule based systems, interacting agents and others.
For samples see http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/freepoplog.html#teaching Instructions for downloading/installing the latest version are here http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/latest-poplog/
If it is installed on a local server, then it can be run over the net from a linux machine or from a msWindows PC which has Xming installed and PuTTy or some similar ssh client.
A senior teacher in a south london school is considering using this for teaching and I willing to help others and facilitate collaboration.
This could be a useful alternative to the currently available highly graphical programming tools for learners especially for projects aimed at giving simple programs the ability to think/reason/communicate, play games, learn, etc.
Aaron
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
I have posted his instructions here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/winpop/andl/
Please send any comments, suggestions for improvement, or successes, to me.
Thanks