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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@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@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@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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