[Fsf-friends] FN'sEyeOnFLOSS *** F[L]OSS TV gets going *** 091619

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

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FN's Eye on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software  ........
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ONLINE MOVIES RELATED TO FLOSS: FOSS.tv is a website for Podcasting and
Vodacasting news from the world of Free/Libre and Open Source Software
(FLOSS). Navin Dhanuka <dhanukanavin at gmail.com> is now announcing  that
besides a 1hr movie on Linux Localization he is planning to have CBTs
(computer-based training) on FOSS.tv And, yes, they will be released in
Creative Commons License.

He is zeroing on the following topics 1. Basic Shell 2. OpenOffice 3.
Networking 4. PHP & MySQL 5. Python ... Your suggestions are welcome.

You can see the video @ vlog http://www.foss.tv/wordpress/?p=6

Also, do long on to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fosstv/  "so that we
can discuss about the same". If you know about ppl/groups who would be
interested in helping in creation of CBTs, please fwd the message to
them.

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SFD IN UGANDA: From Wire Lunghabo James <lunghabo at LINUXSOLUTIONS.CO.UG>
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Uganda 

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CREATING LEARNING OBJECTS... IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Burrokeet is an
open source software project that is building an electronic system for
creating Learning Objects. Funded by IBM, Burrokeet's development
resides at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Commonwealth of Learning is dedicated to promoting educational and
academic improvement throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, especially
in the English-speaking developing world. They sponsor a variety of
interesting and useful face-to-face conferences and online resources.
Their report on a "Virtual University for Small States" is of
particular interest.

UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning has a set of
Virtual University resources.

http://www.freecurricula.org/links.php

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FROM CAPE TOWN: Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape
Town is online at http://www.cet.uct.ac.za Stephen Marquard
<marquard at CHED.UCT.AC.ZA> says, "My portfolio is learning technologies,
which includes online learning environments. We use (free/libre and)
open source software extensively for web-based applications. UCT built
an inhouse learning environment (connect) from open source components,
including the w-agora discussion engine. Last year we adapted this
platform to host an online conference http://emerge2004.net, and
released the resulting package under the GPL
http://eduforge.org/projects/emergecolab/ We also have a multi-year
project to migrate to the open source Sakai Project learning
environment http://www.sakaiproject.org, which we're excited about for
many reasons, including the Sakai community, interesting tools and
applications emerging for Sakai, and of course the cool technology. On
the social software side, we have recently started a blog service for a
staff development programme (though we expect its application to be
much wider) using plog http://www.plogworld.net , and are at various
stages of using 4 different wikis for different purposes - swiki,
Wikka, mediawiki and a Sakai wiki. We're also interested in eXe for
offline content editing.

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