[IAEP] classroom presenter - LinuxTag

[Caroline Meeks]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.


+1!!!

>
>
> 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>
> >> Message-ID:
> >>        <242851610905280336x395f8fcbqb47488874ef6a866 at mail.gmail.com>
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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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