[edu-eu] Free Software in education - news collection

[Guido Arnold]

Hello all,

I've been collecting news about Free Software in education and started
to post them regularly [1]. I just realized that I haven't informed
this list about it yet.

Here are parts of the latest posting [2] (minus the news that came from
this list)


First some news that don't fit into the country specific news:

I read an interesting article by Máirín Duffy about how she introduced
Inkscape to a middle school [3]. It includes a number of valuable tips
that might come in handy for a freedroidz workshop [4] or something
similar.

I read a blog post about a nice work shop at a university [5] in
Canada to teach students how to participate in Free Software projects.
One of the comments led me to a similar project in Granada [6]. Does
anybody know other activities in this direction in Europe?

The posting also links to another project that aims to help people
interested in contributing to Free Software, but don't know where to
start: openhatch.org.


Austria
Not the latest, but still interesting documents for developers might
be the quality criteria for e-learning [7] in Austria. Even if
teachers would only have to choose among Free Software tools, they
face a mass of software. And they can't try it all before using it. I
guess they are likely to pick something recommended by professionals.
So, knowing the criteria might help improving free educational
software.

France
The edu folks from April [8] created a colourful poster to promote
Free Software in education [9] and published it under various free (as
in freedom) licenses.

Germany
A student who participated in one of the freedroidz work shops wrote
a report about it [10 (German)].

Greece
GNU/Linux systems for teachers and pupils at elementary schools [11].

Spain
The Department of Education in Valencia has created a software package
installation for easy download of over 200 educational resources
offered by LliureX for Kids version 10.09 [12]. It was first presented at the
Fourth Congress of Free Software [13].

Russia
The collection of news entries about Russia [14] grew remarkably in
our wiki. The latest entry [15] (German) is that there's a new
release of the edu version of ALT Linux [16], a governmental edu
distribution.


Outside Europe
GNUnify.in in India had a FOSS in Education track [17]


If you want to help me in gathering more news, you can 
 - send them to me directly or
 - post them to this list or
 - write a dent to the ofset identi.ca group [18]
 - feed the Fellowship wiki of FSFE [19]

Thanks in advance!

Guido

 [1] http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/category/education/
 [2] 
http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2011/02/free-software-in-education-january-february-2011/
 [3] http://opensource.com/education/10/4/introducing-open-source-middle-school
 [4] http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2010/12/freedroidz-workshop-with-tarent/
 [5] 
http://opensource.com/life/10/11/introducing-students-world-open-source-day-1
 [6] http://osl.ugr.es/2010/03/09/hackathon-lecciones-aprendidas/
 [7] http://www.bildung.at/files/downloads/Qualitaetskriterien_E-Learning.pdf
 [8] http://www.april.org/groupes/educ/
 [9] http://www.april.org/education-les-logiciels-libres-partager-sans-compter
[10] 
http://wgg.be.schule.de/faecher/informatik/materialien/freedroidz-roboter-am-willi-graf-gymnasium
[11] 
http://www.osor.eu/news/gr-open-source-and-free-linux-system-for-teachers-and-pupils-at-elementary-schools
[12] http://www.osor.eu/news/es-lliurex-10.09-offers-free-educational-material
[13] http://congres.lliurex.net/index_en.php
[14] https://wiki.fsfe.org/Education/FS_usage_Link_collection#Russia
[15] 
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16618/linux-macht-schule-alt-veroeffentlicht-neue-schulversionen.html
[16] 
http://www.altlinux.org/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%A8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9
[17] http://gnunify.in/tracks
[18] http://identi.ca/group/ofset
[19] http://wiki.fsfe.org/Education/FS_usage_Link_collection


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