Projects

AbulEdu LeTerrier

“Le Terrier d'AbulÉdu” covers a series of free software meant for schools and colleges : they have been created one by one, for the last past ten years, by teachers for other teachers. Since they were iniatilly meant to fit the AbulEdu networks, they are basically compatible with Debian ... [More] and Ubuntu, nearly always with GNU/Linux as well as Microsoft Windows, and partly with MacOS. Their specificity lies in the way they have been developped : instead of being a one-way work, each of them is the result of numerous exchanges, often for months, between teachers and developpers. Here is the reason why the abuledu-fr association has been created, in order to keep in touch with users and to maintain a strong link between both communities. [Less]

f4k-curriculum

F4k curriculum provides a way of organising the teaching and learning of science and mathematics. It uses an open-ended approach, mostly practical work and investigative projects. The target age-group of students is young (mostly pre-adolescant) children, so long as they are literate. Some ... [More] projects will never be published as more than a very brief outline, nothing more than a heading for a brainstorming session. Others will be developed much further: their starting point is a set of aims and objectives; to these team members can add background references, learning activities, worksheets, apparatus and prior skills needed, safety issues, assessments, mark-schemes, and the students can add raw data, fair-copy reports, feedback. This is NOT about computer simulations. Almost all the projects start, as far as a student or group of students is concerned, with original work done in the laboratory or field. This is the raw data. The computer is then used, with a software suite of open-source software suite that we recommend, to help in the 'write-up'. The internet is used for communication and as a respository of data, and for instruction in the form of screencasts. There is little original software in this project, apart from the XML schema and a plethora of XSLT. Mostly it is a matter of bringing together a whole raft of other material, and making it more suitable for youngsters. we hope to tame: Firefox, Google Apps, Python, Skite, LaTeX, LyX, Gnumeric, Cocoon, Inkscape, GIMP, Scribus, Open office, subversion, Eclipse ... [Less]