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I’m ready to jump into the cold water…

Sunday, February 21, 2010

..that is: I’m ready to test Moodle in up to three of my classes. I’ve taken down my personal website and installed Moodle 1.9.x (weekly whatever) on it.
So far I’ve already started a course for the book I’m reading in an English class. Two history courses (on industrialisation and the First World War) will be [...]

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Educational Linux distributions

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

If you are looking for an educational Linux distribution, you have at least three choices:

openSUSE Education is a live and install  DVD based on openSUSE 11.2.
Edubuntu is the education version of the quite popular Ubuntu.
LernTux and KinderTux are Mandriva derivates created by Dieter Schütze.
UPDATE: Skolelinux based on Debian. (How could I forget this classic?)

KinderTux is especially [...]

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Bitten by Metacity: Bug 555027 – autologin failure …

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I got bitten by this ugly bug (Bug 555027 – autologin failure …) and could no longer login to my lovely Gnome. With the help of the fine lads at #opensuse-gnome on Freenode and in the forum, I was able to find a patch here.
Now everything seems working again.

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Inkscape classes

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

If you (like me) have no idea of what to do with Inkscape, hop over to Inkscape Class Day 1 « Máirín Duffy for an eight session course by Máirín Duffy.
Originally held for 7th grades in the Boston area, all of us can enjoy the course via blog and PDF.
Impressive!

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Moodle for 2nd language and history teaching

Monday, January 25, 2010

This book (Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching) seems to be exactly what I was looking for. Strangely, there are no reviews on Amazon for it yet. The contents are impressive, as is the price tag: a hefty €35-40.
The book is promoted in the Moodle Language teaching community and probably worth the money, so I’ll [...]

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If Gnome hangs while you log in …

Monday, January 25, 2010

… this might help you: GnomeLoginHang < Computing < LEPP TWiki.
It sure helped me this morning.

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