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Welcome to the Education project !



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The Education project Team



Page under construction. You are welcome to contribute :-)

If you have urgent questions, or need informations, please join us on our IRC chat channel.

Server is : irc.freenode.net 

Channel is #education.openoffice.org   (english)

Please remember the #

See you on the IRC chat :-)


Or subscribe to the mailing list: dev@education.openoffice.org

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Short News from the subprojects

This is the place to provide updates and news about projects under the Education Project. To create a news item simply set the project name in bold before the news content. Please write in English only and add the latest item over the last one.

  • Mathieu Lalanne will represent Education Project at Live eTic 2008 Montpelier France) the 3rd December 2008
  • Education Project will be present at Educatice 2008 (Paris France), 25th to 28th November 2008
  • Rakesh Pandit workout has been accepted at FOSS.in, Bangalore India (25th to 28th November )
  • J2ML , Nice France ( 15th of November )
  • FSOSS 2008, at Seneca College ( Toronto, Canada ) 23rd 24th Ocbtober
  • Education Project was represented at Journée travaill collaboratif at Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm), Paris France
  • Education Project is invited at Paris Capitale du Libre by the SCEREN (thanks to Jean-Pierre Archambault)
  • Presentation about Education Project and OPLC at Epitech Paris, 24th September (thanks to Pierre Pasteau for the invitation)
  • ( ericb September 14th 2008 ) Two new Domain devs for the Education Project : congratulation to Pierre Pasteau and Rakesh Pandit !
  • (rbircher December 13th 2007) Project Switzerland We start searching people for a association in Switzerland
  • (rbircher December 10th 2007) Website: Nicolas Jeudy working on the layout



Education Project Effort

Idea based on Efforts





Education Project ClassRoom

Idea based on Education Courses




Todo

List in construction. You can help us complete it and improve on it

( Brainstorming in progress )

  • Revamp http://education.openoffice.org
  • Make the page static
  • Organize the wiki page
  • Create new entries : locales ? / tools ? / Success stories ? / Partners ?
  • Resources : ask an entry for every school present on the site ? (annually ?)
  • QA : define default owner for education project issues
  • Be present and visible (please complete the list) :


  • Recent Issues
Urgent


1) Installation / Usability

  • OpenOffice.org installation , mainly under Microsoft Windows, is problematic ( unique registration, ...etc)
  • Installation in a rightless environment

2) Compatibility

Again, with MS Office (examples, precise case, writing of a guide avoiding issues, find the most known of them .. )

3) Maths

  • formulas alignments

This is an incredibly well known and important default. Some migrations failed just because of this "detail".

See the sadly well known issue 972 , and referenced in IssueZilla since may 2001 (yes 2001 !) URL : http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=972

4) Unclassified

  • Suggestions of amelioration

Maxima

Use Maxima in OpenOffice.org ?

Partial answer : as soon as I'll have the answer to "how interface" OpenOffice.org and Application written in Lisp ( Maxima is written in Lisp ), I promise I'll take the task over.

Update: I got some infos from Eike Rathke and Kendy. Playing with fork() exec() wait() .. stay tuned.

Ericb 12:07, 25 December 2007 (CET)

Suggestion: instead of trying to do this by hand, use the Expect library; an Expect module for OOo would be really useful.

  • Success stories

Any positive success story of installation and /or use in your school, interests us.

Initiation to OpenOffice.org use

Be extremely careful is recommended, only the French Eductional system is described below

Which formations could concern OpenOffice.org ?

- type de formation : secondary, profesional formations ? - concerned courses: Maths ? Physics ? ( Other ? )

URL of reference : http://info.sio2.be/calcooo/index.php ( French, sorry )

Plan (translated from French ):

1. Introduction to a Spreadsheet use with OpenOffice.org (mise à jour 07/01/2006)

2. Use of Calc functions (last update 17/01/2006)

3. The alternative with the Spreadsheet (last update 12/01/2006)

4. Create diagrams using OpenOffice.org Calc

5. Improved study of Mathematical diagrams ( last update 16/05/2006)

Share your opinion whith this course. 

For every part, it could be interesting to define :

The relevant concerned programs

- the plan of the lesson

- the prerequisites of the lesson

- the objectives, well justified in the referential of the program

- the estimated time for the lesson

  • Pedagogical notes creation

Target: create pedagogical notes for the existing tools, improving the role of OpenOffice.org :

Every teacher will certainly have a personal way, but to obtain something consistent, it will be to follow a common skeleton, everybody is invited to improve.

Example:

  • The pedagogical frame of use: public / level
  • prerequisites,
  • the place in the progression,
  • the time of the sequence..etc
  • objectives,
  • the place dans le referential of the program,
  • limits .. (thanks to improve and complete the list)


  • Mutualisation of documents : ADD A LICENSE FOR THE CONTENT

Example of downloadable document with licence

  • Suggestions for academical correspondents


- recent the schools using OpenOffice.org ( write a list on the Wiki ? )

- inform people managing / to be aware of the project existence and invite them to join us (Education Project, dev@education.openoffice.org list)

- keep the list of known issues up to date , and define a list of priorities : we need to concentrate our efforts to the correction of such issues ! - participate, if possiblee, to events who can involve OpenOffice.org project in your academy - recent such events - recent existing tools and documents, who bring a value added the pedagogical interest OpenOffice.org to be used ( next step : put them on the site, for download, but define precisely how do that "before" ) - be visible

Regular Events

There are many events where the OpenOffice.org Education Project is represented.

Feel free to add the one you did.


Events 2008

Education_Project/Events 2008


Events 2009

Education_Project/Events 2009


FIXME: add rules for people representing the Education Project


Localisation projects

Below you will find all sub-projects of the main education project.

Those sub-projects are a good place to find :

  • resources in your own language,
  • documentation related to your educational system
  • a good starting point to build a bridge between OOo development and education in your own country.
  • that you bring into it !

Join us :

fr : Education Project in French

For French speaking countries : fr-EDUCATION

Switzerland project ( german only at this time ) : Project_EDUCATION-ch

List of schools participating to the Effort

Canada

  • Seneca College will provide students and professors working on OpenOffice.org

France

Engineers schools or University

  • UTBM ( students and one professor)

Secondary

  • Collège Le Trion Samer (other contributions to the Project)

Improve me

FIXME

  • Define tabs for every country ?
  • Define arrays for all schools, including Schools logos, contacts for every ... etc ?


French schools already contacted :

Work in progress  :


please complete the list, and define/add contacts

Projects in progress

Improve the OOo Impress part for TabletPC uses (Ecole Centrale de Nantes)

The team of students of the ECN :

  • Frédéric Gelot
  • Olivier Girardot
  • Sashi Juganaikloo
  • Florent Rouvière
  • Pierre-Jean Parot
  • Aude Quintana

and the teacher leading this project Morgan Magnin managed (with many help) to add drawing features on the slideshow and sd modules, in order to be able to draw on an impress presentation during the slideshow, changing colors and stroke width easily.

These changes make OpenOffice.org even more relevant to use in a TabletPC environment.

You can find more informations on the project on the blog dedicated to the project (French) TabletPC

Volunteers to revamp the site

  • Raphael Bircher
  • Nicolas JEUDY

brainstorming

IRC channel

All informations are now available at Education_IRC_meetings wiki page.


Proposal : have regular IRC meetings ?

First IRC meeting scheduled for the week 12th - 17th of November 2007


Proposed :

server : irc.freenode.net Channel : #education.openoffice.org

Done :

Register the channel : Chanserv is set as guard , mode secure On, Topiclock is on Define operators / tasks / Action Items

+ complete the list on OpenOffice.org wiki page

Courses

FIXME : needs rework

This section has been moved to : Education Courses

Whatever

FIXME : complete :-)

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