Education
July 19th, 2004
Interactive Geometry
Maurizio Paolini is full professor of numerical analisis at the Università Cattolica of Brescia. He is the chief developer of eduKnoppix
Here is a link to the presentation of KIG, a program to use Interactive Dynamic Geometry, which features management of cubics:
June 29th, 2004
Proceedings RMLL 2004
Sebastien Delcroix is Software Manager at CRI Haute-Savoie
Since year 1997 the CRI in Haute-Savoie develops and spreads PingOO, libre solution server ()
in public educational institutions of the department of Haute-Savoie.
Today, the CRI maintains about 200
PingOO servers. But the needs in terms of reliability, security and availability of the client machines are more and more acute.
Motivated by both lows costs of the libre software and by the low management work implied by the (...)
June 28th, 2004
Maurizio Paolini is full professor of numerical
analisis at the Università Cattolica of Brescia.
He is the chief developer of eduKnoppix
eduKnoppix is a live CD based on Knoppix 3.4 and specifically
taylored on education in Italian schools.
This customization of knoppix is especially aimed at
italian localization (e.g. the keyboard layout and messages at boot)
and educational software (kig , drgeo , tuxmath , kturtle , octave , scilab , maxima
and many others) especially oriented to (...)
June 28th, 2004
Proceedings of RMLL2004
Research of a free solution for the use of a formal engine software in an engineers school
June 28th, 2004
A Gnu-Linux certification program
Alix Mascret is teacher in computer science after some years in SSII (system, netwoks and databases), he is using Gnu-Linux since year 1996. He has founded the association Alternatives 87, and takes part to various projects and publications whose goal is to promote the usage of libre software in education.
The purpose of the EOF project, carried by an non-profit association, is to offer a professionnel certification on free software. It falls
under an innovating action plan set up by (...)
June 28th, 2004
A Simple Publishing Interface
Gaétan RYCKEBOER is system engineer at
Equant, and develops the software SPIP.
Since printing was invented, men keep searching how to industrialize the diffusion of written documents, for time and material costs ever cheaper; more and more advanced technologies even give the illusion that everybody can become a publisher.
Let’s see how, using an internet application, we can meet both requirements of quality and time efficiency to animate high quality websites by (...)
June 23rd, 2004
Cyberfolio is a multimedia portfolio on Internet. It is targeted for a usage in an educational framework and integrates all the ingredients of the reform of Education in Québec.
Cyberfolio can be used by teachers, students, parents or friends of the students.
It bundles evaluation tools and a tool to conceive learning situations. You can use it to create many types of grids: observation, self-evaluation, co-evaluation, etc. It also contains a tool to grab data or take notes named Jobinote. (...)
June 23rd, 2004
A story of integrating a web portal based on Horde and SPIP in a primary and secondary school of about 1500 students.
June 23rd, 2004
Jean Claude Fernandez is
Researcher in Physical Sciences at CNRS, Docteur d’Etat,
Presently working for Conseil Général de Haute Savoie,
General manager of Centre de Ressources Informatiques de Haute Savoie.
The subjects of the talk are:
Public money: an action of the local government, having an influence on usages: a computer resources center
Sharing: action perimeter, target users, relevant scale
Libre software: about the difficulty to avoid (...)
June 20th, 2004
Proceedings of RMLL 2004
WIMS is presently the most powerful program to serve interactive exercises.
June 20th, 2004
Proceedings of RMLL2004
Antonio Ullán, Dr of Mathematics, industrial engineer, is teacher of mathematics in the University of Extremadura co-developer of gnuLinEx
at the Junta of Extremadura.
The Junta of Extremadura (regional government), develops this operating system and sets it up in the educative system since year 2002.
During the years 2003/04 were installed in all the Institutos (High Schools) of the Region, computers with the operating system GnuLinex in classrooms, at a rate of one machine for two (...)
June 20th, 2004
Andrea Centomo teacher of mathematics in the school Scuola media
‘‘G. Ciscato’’ di Malo (VI), and teaches geometry at the University of Padova, in Italy.
The tight integration which exists in the dynamic geometry application Dr. Geo between advanced programming tools -Guile/Scheme language - and the core which handles geometrical objects, opens new perspectives for the didactics of maths at various levels, in a scope ranging from primary to secondary schools.
We cannot yet make a (...)
June 20th, 2004
the speaker, Juan Rafael Fernández García, is translator (responsible of spanish domains for kbd and yudit), author of documentation (on Guadalinex,
on translation tools, on euro with Debian), coordinator of one school which experimented the distribution Guadalinex and now responsible for ICT in the Center for Adult Training of Costa del Sol (CEP Marbella-Coín, Málaga, Spain).
GUADALINEX is a Custom Debian Distribution, adapted to the needs of the educational community in Andalusia. (...)
June 20th, 2004
Proceedings of RMLL 2004
Monika Tieman is member of Skolelinux.de and administrator in several schools in Germany.
Bart Cornelis (also known on-line as cobaco) has been
involved with Skolelinux since 2003, and is currently both the
coordinator for the Belgian Skolelinux team, and the de-facto coordinator
for translation/localization of Skolelinux. As such he is mainly working on the Dutch translation and the localization infrastructure for Skolelinux.
"Skole" is Norwegian for "school". So Skolelinux is a GNU/Linux (...)
May 12th, 2004
Free Resources for Education in Europe -- Proceedings of RMLL 2004
Many European projects for development of the usage of free software and free resources share common tools, common goals, and a common enthusiasm. Unfortunately, efforts are duplicated more than necessary.
Fast links:
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One goal of this worksop would be to gather enough informations to build
a Socrates/Minerva
project consisting in two complementary pieces :
Making easier for free software developers to output coherent server
solutions for educational (...)
KIG
PingOO
EduKnoppix
Xmaxima and Texmacs
EOF
SPIP
Cyberfolio, a multimedia portfolio
A web portal for a school
Sharing at which scale ?
Wims
gnuLinEx at school for the secondary level
Guadalinex
Skolelinux: Free Software in schools
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