Ideas

Steve, I would like to apply to do a presentation on Digital Storytelling using Audacity in the Open Source Pavilion at CUE in 2007. I've attached an application modeled on the CUE online application. If you need any additional information from me, please don't hesitate to ask. // Yes, I do have a trimmed down version of this presentation that will fit into one hour. I would demonstrate the Audacity process then take people to see some digital storytelling sites.

Audio Adventures in Digital Storytelling

Many thanks,

-Alix Alix E. Peshette Technology Training Specialist Technological Support

Davis Joint Unified School District 526 B Street Davis, CA 95616 530-757-5300 ext. 160 fax: 530-757-5303 apeshette@djusd.k12.ca.us

I decided to do Best is Free as a main session, and would like to do my Linux talk at the OSS pavilion. Abstract is below:

David --

March of The Penguins: Linux on the Student Desktop Abstract: Years ago the raging debate between Macintosh and Windows users hid the fact that Linux was gaining proponents worldwide. Today, amid reduced technology budgets, the door has sprung wide open for the Linux penguin to show up on student desktops all over the world, with major installations taking place in schools on several continents, and the plan by Indiana to provide a Linux-based computer to every high school student desk in the state.

This presentation provides a current update on the capabilities and challenges of Linux as an operating system for students, and explores the likely evolution of this most serious challenge yet to the computational status quo in education. We'll also explore the current (and future) status of educational software and resources (both commercial and free) that run on this virtually crash-free operating system.

No matter what computer OS you are currently using, your awareness of the fast-growing Linux movement will help you plan for the future in your schools and districts.

David

Hey Steve, I put in recently for a concurrent session on "Thin Clients" not knowing that you guys would be there (I spoke on Moodle at CUE last year). Would you prefer that I not do that, since you guys will be there and will be doing it in a more "official" capacity? My basic idea was to speak about Thin Clients in general, and lead into K12LTSP specifically. However, I certainly don't want to interfere with anything you guys would be doing. Let me know. Dan Dan Eliot, Computer Science Teacher El Dorado High School 1651 N. Valencia, Placentia, CA, USA deliot@pylusd.org, 714-993-5350 x7506

I'm up for doing a revision of the Python talk in Atlanta. I don't know if could make it to CUE (or if you would even want the same person so many times). So do keep me posted as to how to submit proposals.

I'm also thinking of getting my assistant to come along to NECC and both of us putting in some volunteer time with you.

Finally, what's your thinking about asking for case studies?

Cheers,

Vern Ceder