[IAEP] classroom presenter - LinuxTag

[Tony Anderson]

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.

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