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From: | Charles Cossé |
Subject: | Re: [edu-eu] Free Software in education - News collection - September |
Date: | Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:59:51 -0600 |
Hello,
I just noticed that I haven't announced any news collections on these
lists for a few months. So, here is what I published since then:
http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/07/free-software-in-education-news-june/
http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/08/free-software-in-education-news-july/
http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/09/free-software-in-education-news-august/
and the latest collection from September:
http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/10/free-software-in-education-news-%e2%80%93-september/
For your convenience, here is an offline version of it:
Free Software in Education News – September
Here’s what we collected in September. If you come accross anything that
might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note, [1]dump
it in this pad or send it on the [2]edu-eu mailinglist!
FSFE Edu-Team activities
* As usual, more [3]work on the edu pages on fsfe.org. A first [4]draft
is now online on the test instance. If you want to help, more infos
on [5]how to contribute to FSFE web pages are avaialble or just send
us a note!
* [6]Call for participation on [7]codeweek.eu and reach out to some of
the Young Advisors with quite some feed-back and discussion on the
[8]edu-eu mailinglist.
* As our sister organisation announced the [9]Bring the FSF to your
campus! campaign, we are considering to offer the same service.
* started preparations for our first meeting next year in Brussels
around [10]FOSDEM
* We gained a new edu-team member: Rok Papež
* answered a few inquiries on how to get active locally
* got word that the upcoming [11]Document Freedom Day will have
Science and Education as a focus. So, we’ll be involved as well
* discussion on [12]how to convey FS ideals to kids on the FSFE
discussion mailinglist. Please join!
Community
* Along [13]Software Freedom Day, there were a bunch of education
related activities, like
* [14]CoderDojo in Richmond, UK
* The Python Conference in UK with a [15]dedicated education track
* event in the [16]Technological Educational Institute of West
Macedonia, Greece
* [17]conference about Free software in schools in Tallinn
* Also somewhat related to SFD, a Fellow started some [18]FS activities
at the university in Dresden. It is being considered to put leaflets
and stickers for the “Ersti-Beutel” (a bag full of info material for
first-year students). Great idea, right? By the way: a[19]nyone can
request material from FSFE to spread the word like this!
* Aldebaran announced the [20]NAO challenge again. The NAO Challenge
this year is offered in 5 European countries:France, Denmark, Italy,
Germany and the UK. All schools can participate in the challenge
whether they have a NAO or not. Tests are prepared on a free simulated
software and go from September 2014 to the finals in May 2015 in each
country.
* Missed last time: [21]Getting hooked on programming with YRS project
‘Hook’
* Post by Phil Shapiro on [22]The personality of a Linux-loving teen
* [23]Students power Penn Manor High School with Free Software (by
Charlie Reisinger)
* [24]How students get involved in FS development at Seneca college
* [25]How teaching FS changed Steve Burge’s life when he stopped
teaching to the tests. My favorite quote: “We’re now living in a world
where our next job may not even have been invented yet.”
* Robert Pogson on [26]Students As IT-techs
* and another post by him on [27]Linus On GNU/Linux And Computers
In Education
* How Emiel Brok [28]lobbied for Free Software in Schools in Belgium and
the Netherlands
Government
* The education ministry in Peru [29]celebrates 20.000 SUGAR users.
Congratulations!
Edu software
* [30]eXe learning 2.0 released
* [31]eXe Learning 2.0. Manual – Tutorial released
* [32]3 Drupal education distros reviewed: Julio, Open Academy and
Opigno LMS
* [33]Soft robotics toolkit released. From their website:
“The Soft Robotics Toolkit is a collection of shared resources to
support the design, fabrication, modeling, characterization, and control
of soft robotic devices. The toolkit was developed as part of
educational research being undertaken in the Harvard Biodesign Lab. The
ultimate aim of the toolkit is to advance the field of soft robotics by
allowing designers and researchers to build upon each other’s work. The
toolkit includes an open source fluidic control board, detailed design
documentation describing a wide range of soft robotic components
(including actuators and sensors), and related files that can be
downloaded and used in the design, manufacture, and operation of soft
robots.”
Pretty cool stuff…
* The XPrize Foundation announced a [34]competition that challenges
teams from around the world to develop Free software scalable software
solution that will enable children in developing countries to teach
themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic. They will spend 15
million US$ for it. Interested?
Distro news
* [35]SUGAR Digest by Walter Bender
Other news
* [36]Kano Ships Its First 18,000 Learn-To-Code Computer Kits, Fueled By
$1.5M Kickstarter
* I saw at least seven Free Software projects listed on the [37]Top 100
edu tools from an annual online survey: WordPress, Moodle, Wikipedia,
Audacity, Mahara, OpenOffice and Firefox. I have to say that I don’t
know most of the other items on the list and didn’t bother to check
which of them might be Free Software as well.
Future events
* Oct 11 – 17, 2014: [38]CodeWeek.eu Something like SFD or DFD for
learning to code. An initiative by the [39]Young Advisors and
the [40]EC,
* Oct 17, 2014: Richard Stallman will talk about [41]Free Software and
education in New York
* Oct 17 – 19, 2014: [42]OLPC San Francisco Community Summit - online
participation possible
* Oct 25, 2014: not really FS related, but still: [43]OER Cologne
* Nov 8-9 , 2014: There will be [44]more FrogLabs workshops at the
[45]OpenRheinRuhr, Germany
* Nov 17, 2014: [46]Digital learning event by Wikimedia Germany.
Registration required, attendance is free
* Dec 3-5, 2014: [47]Online EDUCA Berlin, Germany
References
Visible links
1. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/edu-news
2. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu
3. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/02/working-on-fsfes-education-pages/
4. http://test.fsfe.org/activities/education/
5. http://fsfe.org/contribute/web/web
6. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-September/010274.html
7. http://codeweek.eu/
8. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu
9. https://fsf.org/blogs/community/bring-the-fsf-to-your-campus
10. https://fosdem.org/2015/
11. http://documentfreedom.org/
12. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-October/010303.html
13. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/
14. http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Ham#Previous_event
15. http://pyconuk.org/education/
16. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2014/Greece/Kastoria
17. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/edu-eu/2014-09/msg00010.html
18. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-de/2014-September/006791.html
19. http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html
20. http://www.aldebaran.com/en/naochallenge
21. http://raspberry.tips/raspberrypi-news/getting-hooked-on-programming-with-yrs-project-hook/
22. http://opensource.com/education/14/9/linux-teens-smarter
23. http://opensource.com/education/14/9/open-source-high-school
24. http://opensource.com/education/14/8/600-students-educated-center-development-open-technology
25. http://opensource.com/education/14/9/teachers-students-want-freedom-testing
26. http://mrpogson.com/2014/09/10/students-as-it-techs/
27. http://mrpogson.com/2014/09/15/linus-on-gnulinux-and-computers-in-education/
28. https://opensource.com/education/14/9/teachers-linux-open-source-education
29. http://somosazucar.org/2014/09/19/peru-un-despliegue-innovador/
30. http://exelearning.net/new-release-exe-learning-2-0/
31. http://exelearning.net/exe-learning-2-0-manual-tutorial/
32. http://opensource.com/education/14/9/3-drupal-distributions-education
33. http://softroboticstoolkit.com/
34. http://learning.xprize.org/about/overview
35. http://walterbender.org/?p=721
36. http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/27/kano-ships/
37. http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/
38. http://codeweek.eu/
39. http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/young-advisors
40. http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm
41. http://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20141017-newyork
42. http://www.olpcsf.org/node/211
43. http://oerkoeln.mixxt.de/networks/events/show_event.96701
44. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/09/teckids-workshops-at-froscon9-robots-python-games-and-blender/
45. http://blog.openrheinruhr.de/2014/09/25/froglabs-2014-auf-der-openrheinruhr-2014/
46. https://digikompz.wikimedia.de/wiki/Digitales_Lernen
47. http://www.online-educa.com/
Greetings,
Guido
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