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Hi, I heard python is great for math. There is a youtube video floating around from PyCon about how to teach math’s on python specially with the bindings of PovRay you can make mathematical implementations on a 3d scale.

Like the teacher said, our common enemy is not Python vs. Ruby vs. Perl, but the real enemy is Texas Instruments. :)

One of my goals is not just show open source as a ‘solution’ but as part of a practice. After all MS is not really made for schools either (folder, files, documents belong to an office) not so much of a school.
Good practices of technology empowered by open source means that you can instantly implement these technology/practices without expecting or waiting your school to adopt it. Is true that the OLPC laptop might not be acquired by every school. But every school can use the software of the OLPC on their Intel desktop computers right now.

Please watch the Video lessons to have an live image from the software shown on this lesson. Feel free to contribute with more if you know of any or a more indepth tutorial for each.

What is the new Image() is that a pre-set function or is just builted arbitrary. (i.e. new MyRandomImage() ). Is that the same case in [ImageCount].src?

That is true, there is also a topic on selling free software on the work ;)

We have a virtual community and we all found this medium as a faster way to share knowledge or issues that we need to work upon. We got instant feedback and were able to speedup the decision making process. So we are using this more than a virtual classroom a virtual meeting room to sort out conflicts.

Usually there are more than meets the eye when it comes to freeware. In the mid 90’s an explosion of comercial freeware which includes also spyware in the software. As a user or developer there was no way on telling whether this software was benign or not. A famous examples was the infamous weather bug which also run cycles that did monitoring on the user computer.

Free software is fundamentally different in this aspect as developers can alert users whenever this software has such porpouses.

I think that wikipedia is amazing, and this value of truth is really relevant. Basically we can especulate all day if its true or not. As an open source advocate I fight a very similar fight since all our software is done by arguably speaking ‘amateurs’ which can get in the source code and modify the code. But in the end things just work, this to a degree where the comunal knowledge far exceed the expectations of the so called ‘professional’ knowledge who is subject to other agenda like market deadlines or other surrounding noise.

As for the other side of the debate I most say that even some enviromentals could be hold true, the overal outcome is that we wouldn’t be able to process wide range of topic without this tool.

Is humanly imposible read on 10 different topics in 10 different minutes in the britanica as opposed to wikipedia. Just searching for this “books” is way slower than a search engine. And this “facts” holds themselves arguably true.

I love WizIQ, I think is a great resources and you can actually can optimize your time. This morning I got A LOT done with just one hour.

I personally think wikis is a more open platform and can be tweak to behave beter than regular aplications. Mediawiki for example have huge ammount of extensions to make it work better with users. The discussion tab in monowiki is very ‘hidden’ but a more interactive commenting can achieve better things.

There is always the challenge if teachers can really take all of what these technology is worth for.

I still see many teachers doing everything on Excel for example.

Hi Peter,

Thanks I’ll be more patient. :-)

I verify that I had the PPT version and I still have issues. I put the presentation on my local server so you can test it against the software.

http://jza.homelinux.org/~jza/23jaKaR.ppt