1. FreeSoftware@school 10/6/2011 Sophia Danesino sophia.danesino@libero.it

2. My school Electronics and telecommunications Computer science Scientific Liceum School for adults www.peano.it

3. Lineup Student's needs Why Free Software? Software solutions

4. Students Teacher-centered classrooms

5. Teacher-centered Instead of cultivating students' energy and natural curiosity, schools either ignore or even stigmatize them.

6. Teachers

9. A vision of students http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

10. Teach me to Think Evaluate Create Analyze

11. The needs Student-centered learning ICT

12. Why free software? Is it better to teach students to use products or free software that gives more competence, allowing them to analyse how it works?

13. Why?

14. Not so easy

15. Teachers

16. Needs LABS DESKTOP WEB

17. In the lab http://italc.sourceforge.net

18. In the lab - Overview mode - Remote-control - Show a demo - Lock workstations - Send text-message - Power on/off computers - Remote execution of commands - Home schooling (VPN)

19. In the lab

20. Client computer requirements at least need a Pentium Pro and 64 MB of RAM it is an advantage to have a graphic- card providing fast access to framebuffer. Master computer requirements at least a Pentium III (or similiar). 256 MB of RAM minimum Software Linux (Mandriva, Debian or Ubuntu recommended) or MS Windows

21. In the lab A central server performs most of the computing task, stores data and hosts all the software applications. http://www.ltsp.org/

22. In the lab Technical issues centralized Limited risk of virus attack Programs and data available from any login point

24. In the cloud web site e-learning e-portfolio Collaborative tools social networks

25. Web site http://www.joomla.org/ http://drupal.org/http://wordpress.com/ http://plone.org/

26. Workflow

27. Constructivism

28. Social constructivism Groups construct knowledge. Each participant can be a teacher as well as a learner.

29. e-learning

30. http://moodle.org/ http://www.docebo.com http://www.claroline.net/ http://www.ilias.de/ http://fle3.uiah.fi/ http://www.mediawiki.org

32. e-portfolio http://mahara.org/

33. e-portfolio

34. Social networks http://www.elgg.org/

35. Just for fun http://www.qimo4kids.com/ http://www.edubuntu.org/ http://sodilinux.itd.cnr.it/

36. Just for fun http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://gcompris.net/ http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/

37. In the classroom http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

38. In the classroom

39. Do not forget Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.