Dear Colleagues and Friends of Free and Open Sources in and for Education:

This is the first newsletter of http://flossed.org for 2010 -- a long time coming.

A number of you were at the conference which KIS International School hosted in Bangkok last year (Halloween!).  That date was chosen as appropriate to the anniversary of the famous Microsoft Halloween Letters.  http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/index.html -- a good read for a laugh and background info.

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RMS @ FLossEdBk on October 30, 2009

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18 Feb from Schoolforge and Les Richardson   Hello Forgers!  (err.... School Forgers!)

I have a version of Open Admin for Schools 4.5 running on VirtualBox.
This will allow anyone using Windows and other O/S's
to be able to run Open Admin fairly easily.  We don't have any
instructions yet for the Virtual Box setup although these should be
available shortly.

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From Schoolforge by Casey Adams:

 

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Searching the Web for those with something useful, interesting and, hopefully, inspiring, we found ... the following.  If you have a suggestion for this page, please use the contact form to let us know.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dhgZEpakz8

http://www.youtu

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Here's an interesting one posted on schoolforge-discuss. It's called "Robin Good's Collaborative Map" and it's on MIndmeister.com:

http://www.mindmeister.com/fr/maps/show_public/12213323

What's missing? How could it be rearranged for the purposes of flossed?

(This message/post is also testing the members' Web-to-mailing-list functionality.)

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http://mahara.org/ "Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities."

Here's a very slick tool.  It's fun to vary your needs to see what different suggestions it gives you.

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php?firsttime=true

I'll add this to the /links list.

Start: Feb 28 2010 16:19 Timezone: Asia/Bangkok Start: Feb 28 2010 16:19 Timezone: Asia/Bangkok Time to meet up: Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 4:30 PM (16:30). Seasonings Restaurant, Next to the Victory Monument BTS stop on Soi Rang Nam near Century Plaza and just before King Power (going into the soi) on the right.  Agenda: What FLOSS tools could a school use for ... come with your needs and experiences and share your expertise.  Mick suggested this before and it's good as it has free wireless and it's low-key.

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The New York Times published a report on a study of American children "ages 8 to 18" that says they are now on-line more than 7.5 hours per day -- "And that does not count the hour and a half that youths spend texting, or the half-hour they talk on their cellphones."

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From Slashdot:

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In the spirit of helping the poor folks who insist on using IE, here's an interesting one:

A patch against the "alleged" Chinese exploit on Google and others.  Is MS coming clean?

"The patch is now available via Windows Update (it's trickling out) and on the Microsoft Download Center. Here are all the links you need:"

"The patch is now available via Windows Update (it's trickling out) and on the Microsoft Download Center. Here are all the links you need:"

 

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From Hong Seng, Camemis

Please warmest inform that CAMEMIS Basic version can be test by 18 January 2010 onward. Thus if you would like to demo/test on this version then you can use 1) Account (Administrator) Login-Name: demo_admin; Password: demo_admin
or 2) Account (Teacher/Instractor) Login-Name: demo; Password: demo.

 

If you have any questions and clarification please kindly direct to Mr. Koam Vibolrith.

Phone: +(49)  61314955410
http://www.camemis.com

Martin Luther King was inspired by Gandhi who was inspired by Tolstoy and Thoreau.  Peaceful action is an international idea.  In the US, the White House is calling for Free and Open Source developers and users to participate in community education projects on MLKing Day.  Perhaps in each country there is an equivalent that could be celebrated?  Here's the blurb from http://www.serve.gov/mlkday_tech.asp which obviously uses a non-community-friendly OS:

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ATutor News Update
January 15, 2010

*In this Issue*
-Understanding Web Accessibility Online Course January 25
-Common Cartridge Compliance now Official
-Upcoming Conferences
-Google Summer of Code (coming soon)
-W4A Google Student Awards


*Understanding Web Accessibility Online Course*

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What New Year's resolutions should we have for FLossEd.org?

Here's my list.  I'd love to hear/see yours.

• Establishment of a Web team in Thai and English.
• Establishment of habit of posting and reading news of FLossEd on http://flossed.org.
• Establishment of group forums and mailing list as genuine tools.

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Published in the December 25th, 2009 issue of UNESCO BK ICT in Education Newsletter edited by Hartfried Schmidt.  Thank you Hartie!

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What Do You Think Of This?

At our Flossed Users' Group me, Pok mentioned this as a way of getting around users' addiction to a single OS/Desktop:

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