[IAEP] classroom presenter - LinuxTag

[Eben Eliason]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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

+1 to "Show 'n' Tell". That's a fantastic name for this activity.

Eben


>> 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
>>
>>
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