User: iteachnet

Schoolforge: Other people working on the "Stack"

On: Real Open Source Applications for Education?

Glad to see interest in education on /. Don't forget about http://schoolforge.net./ A careful and highly skilled group working on both software and texts. We are the coalition of groups interested in FLOSS and Education and our membership is international. Here are the apps I currently see as the stack:

Server-based:

* Open Admin for Schools by Les Richardson in Canada, http://richtech.ca/ (mentioned by someone else, too.)
* KOHA, http://koha.org/, the Library OPAC/ILS from New Zealand
* Manhattan, http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/, the WebCT alternative which is a lot easier than Moodle from New England (in the U.S.)
* Moodle if you like the blog look instead.
* http://atutor.ca/ -- Just great.

We also recommend IMP/Horde and Drupal. Can't go wrong.

I recommend schools use Debian on the server and Edubuntu on the desktop. The latter comes with a great start on what you need in the classroom, including TuxPaint, TuxMath, Open Office, The GIMP, Firefox, etc. The great thing about it is that you can choose whether to set it up as a thin client or a stand-alone box and updating is easy using apt-get.

Joining Schoolforge is something anyone really interested in FLOSS/education can do to help.

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One ray of hope

On: Computers Not Working In Education

There are rays of hope, among them, the "Webquest" movement started by Bernie Dodge, a professor at the University of San Diego:

webquest.sdsu.edu/

webquest.sdsu.edu/matrix.html

Or, see what you find by searching Google for "webquest."