Hello all, Thanks for the welcome & enthusiastic guidance :-) Lars wrote:
Which applications do you mean? Well, I was originally thinking of contributing to the review of the educational applications listed for inclusion in openSUSE since that is the distro I will be testing them on... However, your point about helping inform the developers and users on other platforms is well taken and I the the reviews I and others write should have the broadest impact possible. I hope you will use list asked for input on to update the template Rajko mentioned: (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Software_Overview) since it has some very good descriptor/prompts for reviewers. Then we can link it to the page you created for housing the actual reviews: http://en.opensuse.org/Reviews.
I think this is something for _all_ distributions around the world. If no one intervenes, I try to talk to Edubuntu, Skolelinux, Ofset and other Organisations. I think we should think about a central place for such things like edu-software-reviews, curriculums and so on. As most of the other plattforms also using a MediaWiki for storing their Articles, we can just start on the openSUSE Wiki and migrate or just copy the content to a "cross-plattform-education site" later.
Great! - let me know if I can help. Ok Here are my suggestions for the template. I will be happy to help & go into more detail if needed on this thread (and will help definately operationally define them further on the wiki). =Name of the program = 1. Overview 1.1 History (if useful) 2. Reviewer type (parent, student, teacher, etc) (link to reviewer bio?) 3. Features 3.1 Application area 3.2 Standards supported 3.3 Target population 3.4 Pre-requisite skills 3.5 Assessment functions (if useful) 3.6 Accessibility & Usability 4. Alternative applications and forks 5. Development 6. Security remarks 7. References/ Notes 8. External links 9. See also At some point, I think it would be good to include a way to categorize based on learning theory approach (constructivist, behaviorist, etc.) but that will have to wait. Cheers, Sarah -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org