[HLUG] Ooops

[Sarah Chard]

Hi Gordon
thanks for the suggestions everything is welcome, pysycache we have
already looked at - there are some issues with it but JIletters looks
very interesting as it teaches phonics - it doesn't seem to have had
much work since 2007 but there is a contact for the developer
I had heard of sugarlabs but not really explored it so that looks
interesting as well
-- 
Sarah

Schools Project - http://piratepad.net/V3NK9CQWNt



On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 11:52 +0100, Gordon Stevens wrote:

> Hi Sarah,
> You recently asked for some suggestions for programmes to be included on
> the 'tuxedu' cd.
> Have listed some suggestions which may be worth looking at
> http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/JILetters
> http://www.pysycache.org/
> http://www.sugarlabs.org/
> 
> Forgive me if you are already of these.
> 
> Best Regards
> Gordon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 18:40 +0100, Sarah Chard wrote: 
> > Hi Gordon
> > sorry you could not make it last night - hopefully we will see you next
> > month
> > 
> > yes a lot of schools seem to use education city and espresso it does not
> > preclude using Tuxedu though 
> > education city is as I understand it very curriculum and topic driven -
> > plus teachers can log children's progress (assuming they have internet
> > access that is) which not all children do at home and some schools such
> > as Fownhope struggle with.
> > 
> > If most of the software you are running is net based schools could use
> > tuxedu on classroom machines either standalone or as a dual boot
> > Schools tend to run XP which is now coming to it's end of life so it's
> > an ideal time to offer them an alternative which is costless, faster and
> > more secure.
> > 
> > @davidwinterton
> > 
> > glad you think tuxedu is better  :)  we've yet to meet a child who has
> > not been excited by it.
> > 
> > 
> 
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