[kde-edu]: On teachers contributing content Was: KEduca resurrection (possible GSoC project)

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

Yes it would be great to have an IRC meeting on this so we could refine this 
topic at the Edu meeting.
Aleix, any date? a doodle page?

Best regards,

Anne-Marie

On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:08:48 Duda Nogueira wrote:
> Hi Alex!
> 
> That's a great idea. Deliver content among the software is definetly
> the way to Go!
> 
> However, I don't think that relying on a web content such as portal do
> professor is a good idea, not only for the non semantic content as you
> pointed, but mainly for the availability and stability of the whole
> portal.
> 
> Instead of putting the content into the software, a better aproach
> should be the opposite: put the software into the content.
> 
> That's why I think Keduca can be a key software to do this job,
> integrating content with software.
> 
> Picture the usage: Anne wants to teach her students about calcium/
> milk. She will create a Keduca file, with richmedia (audio, video,
> images, flash, weblinks) grabed from a Creative Commons source, and
> can also link his Keduca class with a specific application, even
> linking a specific word, such as "calcium" to a command, like "kalzium
> calcium"
> 
> Anne can also share her class, created on her language by clicking on
> a button "share", and making it available on a central repository.
> 
> Later, other teacher, named Marie ;) will be able to download the
> shared Keduca class, improve it, use it, and share it back on the
> central repository.
> 
> It can be either a crazy idea or a good vision...
> 
> Just a quick correction: Syst, the company I work for is the same as
> Metasys, but we prefer to be called as Metasy, for branding matters :)
> 
> What do you guys think about that? A meeting/brainstorm would be great!!
> 
> Enviado de meu iPhone
> 
> Em 16/04/2010, às 12:13, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> escreveu:
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Duda Nogueira
> > <dudanogueira at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > As Mauricio said, we (Syst) have total interest in keeping a close
> > contact with KDE and KDE-EDU, helping on improvements not only in
> > KEduca app, but the whole Educational stack in open source, whenever
> > possible.
> > 
> > It's important to note that our distro is being shipped in thousands
> > of Intel Classmates. Here in Brazil we have more then 13.000 already
> > delivered, and more 150.000 to go, as the UCA (One Laptop per Child)
> > Project from Brazil's government is being launched.
> > 
> > On the desktop side, we have about 4.000 thousand schools here in our
> > state, Minas Gerais, with approximately 15 computers each, all of them
> > with KDE on in it.
> > 
> > There is also another dekstop project, from the Communication area of
> > the government, that plans to deliver 20.000 labs, each one with 15
> > computers. From this total, 5.000 was already delivered, and the rest
> > will be delivered on the following months.
> > 
> > With KEduca, we want to share/contribute with code, expertise and help
> > on stimulating teachers and institutions to develop and share new
> > tests/KEduca files.
> > 
> > The Educational Area of our Government has an awesome portal
> > (http://portaldoprofessor.mec.gov.br/recursos.html) with tons of
> > contents (66G so far), and we think it'll be a good area to share the
> > pt-br KEduca tests.
> > 
> > I'll be looking closely for the KEduca-new development, as I truly
> > believe this will a win-win situation, and a very interesting project!
> > 
> > Best Regards!
> > 
> > Duda Nogueira
> > Gerente de Projetos em Tecnologia
> > www.dudanogueira.com.br
> > 
> > Celular: +55 31 9985-1271
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
> > 
> > <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
> > > fabulous news and indeed making it possible to exchange data is the
> > > way to go!
> > > Thanks a
> > 
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> > Hi!!
> > I'm really happy to read such a mail. I think that such
> > communication between teachers and developers is definitely the way
> > to go. If you are interested on working with us, we should create
> > some IRC meeting together (if it's not possible to meet live) to
> > think of some way we can do that.
> > 
> > For starters, even if the website has an amazing amount of
> > information (I mean it, there's stuff in catalan, awesome :)) I
> > don't think there's much we can do with that because data is not
> > formatted in any semantic way but we should try to get to that. A
> > good start would be to make it possible to integrate some
> > information into kalzium, they already have wikipedia information,
> > why not information from "portal do professor"? To do so we should
> > make it possible to be able to structure the data a little and to
> > create some RPC interface I guess, do you think that would be
> > possible?
> > 
> > I think it would be great if we could provide kalgebra modules and
> > maybe cantor sheets for mathematical and science information in
> > general. I think this would be far better than the current just-html
> > approach. This would bring up new needs in hosting applications but
> > that's why we are here, isn't it?
> > 
> > Well, looking forward to hearing from you. And remember that we're
> > here for good :D
> > 
> > Aleix (KAlgebra maintainer)
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