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Colorado Technology In Education (TIE) Conference Info

Announcements

March 3, 2008

We held our first meeting today to discuss objectives and goals. See below for items discussed.

General notes

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JimHutchinson Jim Hutchinson], a media specialist at Windsor High School in Colorado, along with Bryan Gartner and NealMcBurnett and other from the loco ColoradoTeam will be giving two 3-hour presentation on Open Source Software for classroom instruction at Colorado's Technology In Education (TIE) Conference in June 2008. This page is for organizing the presentations, demos and perhaps an Ubuntu table to help spread the word, answer questions and pass out CDs.

The two sessions are:

  • Free Software to Enhance and Extend Learning Opportunities (June 25, 2008 @ 8:30 - 11:30am)
  • Learn to Install, Set Up and Configure a Linux Thin-Client Installation (June 26, 2008 @ 8:30 - 11:30am)

See more info about the conference itself on the TIE web site [http://tiecolorado.org/2008/]

Date and Time

  • Conference Dates: June 24-27, 2008

  • Place: Copper Mountain, Colorado

  • Session 1: Free Software to Enhance and Extend Learning Opportunities

    • Session Time: June 25, 2008 @ 8:30 - 11:30am
    • Session Room: Upper Creekside, Union Creek, 60 seats, Windows Lab
  • Session 2: Learn to Install, Set Up and Configure a Linux Thin-Client Installation

    • Session Time: June 26, 2008 @ 8:30 - 11:30am
    • Session Room: Upper Creekside, Union Creek, 60 seats, Windows Lab

Planning Meetings, Goals and Updates

Goals Developed at Planning Meeting on March 3

Software Session

Outline

  1. General overview (15 min)
  2. Brief discussion of "popular" FOSS such as Firefox, Open Office
  3. 30 min session on a science app
  4. 30 min session on a math app
  5. 30 min session on an exploratory tool like Squeak
  6. 30 min session on another app
  7. 30 min session exploring Ubuntu via a Vmware appliance

Goals

  1. Explore various math, science and "other" applications to select the ones that will be used.
  2. Find or develop simple but high quality tutorials for each.
  3. Find or develop a sample lesson plan that teachers could actually use (possibly a generic lesson they can adapt as necessary.
  4. Explore how to load the software on all 30 computers in the lab quickly and easily.
  5. Explore how to use a virtual appliance to demo using Linux only apps without having to install Linux (useful for teachers who may not have the option to re-purpose computers in their school).

Server Session

Outline (incomplete)

  1. Introduction to thin-clients, pros and cons (15 min).
  2. Walk everyone through the install. Each table of 3 computers will install one "server".
  3. Q&A.

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