14 posts tagged “education”

Edubuntu 9.04 brings new application bundles that group educational software by grade level.

You can install from the Education category in the "Add/Remove..." entry in the Applications menu or installing the following packages using your favorite package manager:

• ubuntu-edu-preschool - Preschool ( < 5 years old) educational application bundle
• ubuntu-edu-primary - Primary ( ages 6-12) educational application bundle
• ubuntu-edu-secondary - Secondary ( ages 13-18) educational application bundle
• ubuntu-edu-tertiary - Tertiary ( university level ) educational application bundle

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0806/08060301

UCL has taken a leading step forward in opening up its educational impact to the world.

It has today launched its platform on iTunes U through which users can download lectures, interviews, seminars and news, and play audio and video materials on their iPod or computer. Until now, only North American institutions have featured on iTunes U.

The new partnership between UCL and Apple makes UCL the first mainstream UK university (and one of only three European universities, with Trinity College Dublin and the Open University) to pioneer global participation in iTunes U.

The IBM® SOA Sandbox lets you increase your SOA skills through practical, hands-on experience with the IBM SOA entry points. These SOA entry points -- people, process, information, reuse, and connectivity -- are based upon real customer experiences and provide a simple way to get started with SOA. The SOA Sandbox makes it easy to learn about these entry points by providing a low-risk "tinker, test, and try" learning environment that's designed for enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers, but available to everyone.

The IBM SOA Sandbox provides a mix of full-version software trials and "try online" hosted environments where you can explore tutorials and get architectural guidance. You'll also find online demos, best practice documentation, and quick-start guides, all integrated into a low-risk, hands-on format that provides practical applications of SOA entry points to accelerate learning.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/soasandbox/

Ubuntu Open Week is taking place from Mon 22nd Oct - Sat 27th Oct on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom.

Ubuntu have organised a week long menu of IRC events that touch many different areas of the Ubuntu community.

Ubuntu Open Week is a series of online workshops where you can:

• learn about the Ubuntu landscape

• talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project

• find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical

• participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu

• much more...

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/294156

Tony Buzan uses YouTube to advertise iMindMap

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=33PCtkSlEf4

BTW I use the Open Source FreeMind

Here are some educational resources I found via the Association of Teachers Websites webpage

• http://www.byteachers.org.uk/sites.htm
• http://www.teachit.co.uk/
  
• http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/Links/Links.htm
  

http://teacheraswriters.ning.com/
http://teachercollaborative.ning.com/
http://weareteachers.ning.com/
http://nextgen.ning.com/
http://classroom20.ning.com/
http://openlearn.ning.com/

I've heard of the OLPC but what is this ?

http://www.alphasmart.co.uk/crs/
Imagine a classroom where ALL of your pupils are involved in the lesson ... where ALL of them are enthusiastic ... where you can interactively assess how they are doing using tests, audience reaction and formative assessments to help the teaching and learning process.

I think i prefer the BBC voting system where the audience wave light sabres in the air !

If you are an English speaker then https://www.xing.com/net/business_english/ users just want help improving their spoken English by just talking to you over VOIP !

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

Kalzium has already some nice features but there are still a lot of things to do. As Kalzium has been included in KDE 3.1 we are currently coding quite lot to bring in some new and nice features and make it as fast and usefull as possible. You can help us by testing it or make proposals for new features or a better design.