TETC 2007 Presentations

Open Source Software: Why aren't you using it?

In this session I described Open Source Software, why it is important to educators and some examples of software that is useful in schools. I gave out too-few copies of TheOpenEducationDisc, which you can download yourself.

An article that I wrote about Open Source Software is published in TechTrends and is available on their site. There is a link on the right hand side of that page to a PDF of the paper.

I also mentioned Edubuntu, a version of Ubuntu that is designed specifically for education and has Linux Terminal Server stuff built in. See below for more info.

Here are my slides from this session.

Affordable Ubiquitous Computing

In this session I talked about how thin clients offer many of the affordances of laptops, that is, students having access to computers at school often enough that instruction can be structured to use them, and students having access to their files and settings from one day to the next. Two Linux distributions that make it easy to set up a terminal server are Edubuntu and K12LTSP (K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project). Though there are other differences, K12LTSP is better for folks who want to use Macs as clients.

Here are my slides from this session.

Moodle Hands-on workshop

In this session, we'll look at setting up a Moodle server (if the machines and bandwidth will allow it) or the capabilities of Moodle using a fresh installation of Moodle on my server.

• Moodle.org site
• Direct link to download Moodle .zip file
• Direct link to 7zip installer (7-Zip is exponentially faster than Windows's built-in unzip program)

Here are my slides from this session, though I didn't really use them.