Dear all,
Teachers community in Kerala is starting to work with free software movement to promote free software across the state.
District level groups are getting started. Meetings completed in Trivandrum, Idukki and Kannur.
Following meetings are scheduled.
Kottayam -
Date: 22/04/05 Time: 10 am Venue: Govt VHS Ettumanur.
Kozhikkodu -
Date: 23/04/05 Time: 10 am Venue: Mappila High School, Koylandi.
Malappuram -
Date: 24/04/05
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I request list members to participate in the meetings at respective districts.
Teachers training by IT@School is also going well. First batch training completed (~30 people). Second batch started (~45 people).
regards, arun.
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To Sri Balakrishna Pillai,
All my mails to your id are getting bounced. Pls send me any alternate ids you have.
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 14:46 +0530, Arun M wrote:
ultimately working with teachers will be useful. please try to develop long standing relations with teaching community. one teacher means 30 years of prolonged contact with several batches of students every year. what will be the content of these meetings?
Kozhikkodu -
I attented todays meeting and wrote about it in my journal
http://www.pravi.co.nr/2005/04/23/a-new-beginning-for-it-education-in-kerala...
Feel free to comment it, give new ideas.... PS:Arun comment if I left something
Praveen A said on Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:53:57PM +0530,:
http://www.pravi.co.nr/2005/04/23/a-new-beginning-for-it-education-in-kerala...
I followed the links from the education.kerala.gov.in which pravi gave on this page, and am going through
http://www.education.kerala.gov.in/source_book/IT%20-%20Source%20B.pdf http://www.education.kerala.gov.in/SoftExamQ/SSLC_PracticalWordPro.pdf http://www.education.kerala.gov.in/SoftExamQ/SSLC_PracticalPresentation.pdf
(malayalam pdf files)
I am extremely happy to note the sea change in attitude of the educationists.
However, I have a few nitpicks.In the last two files, (which are in malayalam) the instructions are to save files in a folder on the c drive.
The first file (on page 31 of the pdf) gives the wrong extension for the OO.o file format (.ssw; the correct extension is .sxw); and on page 47 of the pdf, there is an example of html snippet using <marquee> tag. AFAIK, <marquee> is not standard html; and is a M$ extension to html 4.01, adopted by netscape (and therefore supported on gecko based browsers).
And here is something from page 40 which works, but is IMHO syntactically wrong:-
<img src = picture.gif>
A little more compliance to W3C's HTML syntax, _and_ standards would be helpful.