[IAEP] classroom presenter - LinuxTag

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 14:43, Tony Anderson <tony at olenepal.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on ClassroomPresenter. The primary goal is to make it possible
> to author slideshows on the XO. In addition, I am adding the capability to
> provide voice narration for the slides. This version will probably be
> renamed 'ShowNTell.activity' to reflect the use by students to make their
> own slideshows to share with their friends.
>
> As far as I know, the current version of ClassroomPresenter works on the XO
> (8.2).
>
> I expect to be at LinuxTag.

Awesome! See you soon.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Tony
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:36:17 +0200
> From: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] classroom presenter,        iTalc for sugar (possible
>        ports for       LinuxTag Berlin showoff)
> To: David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
> Cc: iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>,    Sugar-dev Devel
>        <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:17, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > ?? At LinuxTag Berlin, there are 3 areas that are of particular interest
>> > to
>> > me, and might be considered novelties in the way sugar can/will be
>> > presented
>> > there. From one side, I will be representing sugar packaging on the
>> > openSUSE
>> > platform, and being part of the opensuse-edu team, we will show off not
>> > only
>> > the live suse sugar cd/usb stick, but also the tight integration
>> > (including
>> > desktop launch icon) of sugar within the openSUSE 11.1 educational spin.
>> > Since kiwi-ltsp (A mature variant of LTSP 5) is quite integrated in the
>> > educational desktop, as is ejabberd, we will show off LTSP sugarised,
>> > with
>> > the approximately 50 sugar activities that have been packaged for
>> > openSUSE.
>> > Within the LTSP framework, we often use an application called iTalc,
>> > which
>> > allows for the remote administration (vnc on steroids) of desktop
>> > sessions,
>> > locking of sessions, passing around of sessions (for the classroom
>> > environment) as well as, intra station messaging (in case a particular
>> > station needs administrative help/training/support.) Right now, it runs
>> > great on the administrator machine, which doesn't need to and won't run
>> > Sugar. Basically from this view one can see screenshots of each desktop
>> > and
>> > by clicking on the desktop in question, one takes over or shares that
>> > session with that particular sugar user. There is more explanation and
>> > screenshots here: http://italc.sourceforge.net/
>> > On the client side, it would be nice for someone to study how hard it
>> > would
>> > be to port to sugar. Its not massively important since it runs from
>> > gnome,
>> > but for scenarios where sugar is the only Desktop Environment, it would
>> > be
>> > nice to have this kind of controlling mechanism for the teacher/admin.
>> > For
>> > example, the teacher could collaboratively work on one session connected
>> > to
>> > a projector, and pass that session on friom student to student, with
>> > each of
>> > them carrying out some task. I have seen it used this way under Gnome
>> > with
>> > great success, and as Sugar is collaborative by nature, it seems like a
>> > perfect fit. So any sugar porting takers?
>> >
>> > On another note, I have successfully tested the home made whiteboard
>> > option
>> > using a wiimote and infra red pens. This approach allows for the
>> > building of
>> > an interactive whiteboard for under 50 euros. Unfortunately, the best
>> > software to use for something like this is classroom presenter,
>> > originally
>> > windows software allowing one to open a powerpoint/impress presenation
>> > and
>> > then draw upon that using the infra red pen. Classroom presenter was
>> > ported
>> > to sugar at one point. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Classroom_Presenter ,
>> > but
>> > I'm not sure about its current status, only that it doesn't currently
>> > work.
>> > Again, it would be nice to fix this activity so we can show it off at
>> > LinuxTag and show people how to create a cheap sugarised interactive
>> > whiteboard for under 50 euros. If someone is interested in getting this
>> > activity working again for Sugar, that would be great.
>
> Maybe the activity team needs to adopt Classroom presenter? Or we
> could reactivate its original developers?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>