[kde-edu]: Math formats in KDE Edu

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been chatting with a high school teacher discussing how can we use KDE
> Edu to teach math in schools (since it's both our fields).
> He created some very nice class where he guides the student for one hour
> explaining some basic math properties using KAlgebra, of course this is not
> ready for use yet but it's a start. The idea is to distribute during the
> class directly these documents to the students so that they can work
> themselves with our software. Ideally different teachers will be able to
> contribute new documents and share themselves content, thus win-win-win
> situation.
>
> I think that we all agree that it is a great way to work until here.
> Problems:
> - We don't have a good place to share that kind of stuff.
>   -> I'm not sure KDE Files fits our needs. It's not free, it's
> centralized, I'm not sure it's easy to contribute incrementally.
>   -> we could consider using wikis but they are hard to integrate with our
> software
>   -> we could do something ourselves but that means work
>   -> we could use anything I don't know of, so please help :)
> - We should introduce translation of such content, that leads me to the
> next point.
> - Formats are totally fragmented.
>   -> Cantor worksheets use rich text format which is fine but generating
> .pot files from that and new cws sounds hard because it's not just plain
> text. (Albert? any hint)
>   -> If we propose to use ODT, which is the sanest format in my opinion, we
> are disabling teachers to use Cantor to create the classes. Is it possible
> to export Cantor worksheets to ODT?
>   -> Does anybody know how hard would it be to make ODT translatable?
>   -> Does anybody have a better solution than those?
>
> Thanks,
> Aleix
>
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Oh, I forgot, I think it should be a format okular friendly, at least.
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