Kde-Edu in Kinder-garden

[Aleix Pol]

On Thursday 20 September 2012 19:16:15 Marco Calignano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> actually, instead of all the teachers of all kindergartens, there where
> only one teacher of one and all of a second. The third Kindergarten
> thought that computer are usefull for children.
> Except that everything went well. They are even willing to join our
> mailing list to give us  their experiences. The only problem is English,
> so I suggest they subscribe like Kindergarten to the mailings and then
> thay can discuss and send us email even from there. That was a success,
> after Randa I will set up the account.
> We had problem with the group work. The computer I prepared were really
> slowly, and this depends on the Kubuntu 12.04 with backport for KDE 4.9.
> With the old version
> Kubuntu 11.10 and  4.8.2 the same hardware was faster. I also had really
> big ploblem setting up application with more than one language (I hope
> someone at Randa can help me with that).
> WEe have also some stability issues at least in Pairs. It crashed 6
> times. I think it has something to do with Phonon but I am not sure.
> I'll try to reproduce the problems and maybe have a look at the code or
> file a bug report.
> At the end I also gave them the same presentation on Collaborative
> Learning that I will give at Randa. and they gave me some ideas how to
> create game to use with method.
> All in all was a really good experience they got to know, Linux,
> KDE,KDE-Edu and they want to help.
> Would be cool to have this presentation given to more Kindergarten and
> not only in Cologne
> If someone wants to do it I have all presentation in English and German
> 
> Cheers
> Marco
> 
> On 09/20/2012 06:00 PM, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Marco Calignano
> >> 
> >> <marco.calignano at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>> 
> >>> the day finally arrived. Tomorrow I will present KDE and KDE-Edu to the
> >>> educators of three Kinder-garden in Cologne.
> >>> I will also suggest to join our mailing list to help in the project of
> >>> new
> >>> programs for children.
> >>> 
> >>> I hope I have a positive response to report to you after  this event
> >>> 
> >>> Wish me luck
> >>> 
> >>> Marco
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> >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu
> >> 
> >> Good luck, Marco!
> >> 
> >> Looking forward to hearing from you :)
> > 
> > So... how was it? :)
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Ok, I think it's a great starting point for the discussion I added in the wiki 
about how to get the teacher community engaged.

Wonderful job Marco, looking forward into iterating it into something 
brighter! :D

Aleix