Comments on: KDE Education Survey

By: Iñaki

Iñaki — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:13:45 +0000

Unfortunately I know nothing about programming, and the only free educative program I use is Solfege, which is a Gnome app. As a music teacher I’d want to suggest to any who may read this and feels like contributing to KDE educative software to consider starting a musical education software project.

Cheers

By: Frederik Gladhorn (fregl) » KDE Education Survey

Frederik Gladhorn (fregl) » KDE Education Survey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:52:42 +0000

[...] There are lots of good applications under the KDE Education umbrella and very nice people behind them, caring for the applications and their users. Sometimes it’s very hard to guesstimate what our users like and dislike. Yes, we crave your feedback! As a result of the meeting, we sat down and created a survey, to gather some feedback. It’s our first go at something like this, so there’s still lots to learn … Learning and Free Software are just a good combination! It won’t take long to fill out, so go ahead and donate us a few minutes of your precious time. Lydia wrote about the survey, but we’d like more people to participate still. [...]

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:28:07 +0000

@Andreas Great! The best way to get started at the moment is the kde-edu mailing list. This is where most of the contributors will read it.

By: andreas

andreas — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:13:18 +0000

@ TheBlackCat: I’ll know. And I also see, that most action will be at the mailing list.

I install a linux computer for my parents and I also install gcompris vor my grandchild. My grandshild will love gcompris because she can click and have a great overview about a lot of education apps. She all the time talk to my that I’ll install gcompris at her (her parents) windows pc. That’s a problem. The second problem is the translation of the help in every game.

whatever. I’ll tested the edu suit from kde last night and today. There is a realy great potential. The most apps are realy usefule and good. (I’l make some vocabulary tests in parley)

I only use the apps one day, so I can’t say what you can make better. I only like to help.

Where is a good place to talk about some ideas? here, the forum or the mailing list?

By: TheBlackCat

TheBlackCat — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:33:41 +0000

@ Andreas: the forum already has a “Games, Education & Utilities” sub-forum.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:52:00 +0000

@Andreas: Yea we could use some help with all the points you mention. If you are interested in helping out with that please let me know.

By: andreas

andreas — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:25:08 +0000

Hello

Thanks for the blog entry. I would like to help, but I’m no coder.
So I start testing some apps and saw that
1. The documentation isn’t realy good.
2. The apps are all very different in there target audience
3. KDE has a forum but when you look at the forum there are less entries and the most people are interested in the Brainstorm area. Maybe it is possible to make a subfolder for education entry.

Thanks for the blog entry

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:00:34 +0000

@TheBlackCat: Yea that would be interesting indeed. But I wanted to keep the survey as simple as possible while still being very useful for the team.

@tuxman: I believe this is a problem of manpower :/ If you or someone else wants to help get some people interested in this again contact me by email and we will investigate.

By: tuxman

tuxman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:52:34 +0000

There is an immensely useful application called KtechLab that i think should be herre, it seem it is not going to be ported to KDE4 i do hope this is not the case as this is a wonderful application.

By: TheBlackCat

TheBlackCat — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:43:12 +0000

Might I suggest you divide user groups up a bit more finely? With applications like cantor being integrated there is a great potential for use in higher education and advanced research. I would suggest:

Grade school/primary school student
Grade school/primary school teacher
Undegraduate/secondary school student
Graduate/postsecondary school student
University/college professor
Researcher
Other:

I think it would provide some useful insight into how the applications can be improved for use by more advanced users.