Using Open Source in the Classroom: A Professor’s Perspective
Heidi Ellis has a new post discussing the use of open source in the classroom from a professor’s perspective. From the post:
General
Eight things I took away from OpenEd2010
http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/oer/2010/12/07/eight-things-that-i-took-away-from-opened2010/
Vic Jenkins has a new post discussing lessons learned from OpenEd 2010. From the post:
Moodle TCO
I’m sure this must have been raised many times, but I can’t see it. Has anyone figures on total cost of ownership of Moodle? I know that’s a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question, but assuming a fairly standard school implementation for around 1,000 pupils.
One particular area is costs (time or cash) of managing SIMS/Moodle integration – any thoughts on that aspect, if nothing else?
OpenOffice.org Tutorials
By dwillmot20 – Posted on December 6th, 2010
Having the some excellent software is one thing! but using it productively is quite another, there are some very good tutorials on the web, though I do find having a dual monitor setup very helpful to actually follow them.
I’ve used some of the tutorials below to help me get to grips with some of the finer points of openoffice.
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Is working smarter going for Open Source or out further to Open Educational Resources in the cloud or on Apps
Reading Harold Jarche’s latest blog post From learning to working technologies – it is interesting to see how he uses the graph of Moore’s Technology Adoption Curve and applies it to the Learning Technologies Industry.
It has lessons for the schools’ ICT industry in the UK. The Late Adopters and Laggards are still stuck in the doldrums of LMS (VLEs) Compliance and features and functions.
Could Analysis and Application of Open Data be where Academic and Vocational subjects meet?
By LeonCych – Posted on November 27th, 2010
Analysing data is the future for journalists, says Tim Berners-Lee in a Guardian article earlier this week.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/22/data-analysis-tim-berners-lee
This whole area is an interesting development where traditional jobs and data are beginning to emerge. I wonder if this has implications for the new curriculum where Academic vs Vocational?
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Open, Social and Participatory media as cognitive learning tools – Cloudworks a new Social Media Networking tool
By LeonCych – Posted on November 27th, 2010
Gráinne Conole is writing a book on the above subject over at http://e4innovation.com/?p=394 – in her blog post she mentions a new Open Social Media Networking tool called Cloudworks which can be seen in practice here:
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/
and open source download is available here:
http://bitbucket.org/cloudengine/cloudengine/wiki/Home
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The K12 Open Source Classroom Website
Second Release of System aimed at Two Years Old Kids is on the Way
By ipitgpu – Posted on November 15th, 2010
DoudouLinux is a system designed for children to make computer use as easy and pleasant as possible for them (and why not their parents too!). DoudouLinux provides tens of applications that suit children as soon as 2 years old and tries to give them an environment as easy to use as a gaming console.
1 Month of Using Ubuntu in Education
By lord_alan – Posted on October 19th, 2010
I just wanted to help promote an interesting experiment that is happening during the month of November.
Ubuntu November is a little project run by a couple of schools from Hampshire, UK. For a long time we have been wondering how successfully an Ubuntu installation could replace our existing Windows/Mac setups in school, and decided it was about time to try.