Education Project/Contribute/ToDo

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) :

• PCIE/EDCL : http://www.pcie.tm.fr/

• Recent Issues

Urgent

Volunteers to revamp the site

• Raphael Bircher
• Nicolas JEUDY

brainstorming

• brainstorm for education project website
• Webconcept for education project website*

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