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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Languages are taught
in a different way today. Some years ago, students could sit for a
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">I do remember some
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formulate the answers. The best of it was that as they were listening
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Today with this explosion of electronic sources one finds that podcasts could be a wonderful way in order to promote better teaching, understanding and communicating with all the partners involved!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">It could help busy teachers to give instructions to students in order to listen to it at home or elsewhere. On the other hand, students themselves can produce wonderful podcasts to show what they have learned or else to work together in a project and explain the part played by each one of them! There could be many other uses for, in education. If one is creative, one can find numerous reasons to use a podcast in class. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Today we are suggesting a podcast which is free, open source and available for Mac, Windows and Linux. It is Cpod. One can download it from <a href="https://github.com/z-------------/CPod">here</a>. There is no documentation </span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">available online but it’s very simple to install and use. The cpod was mentioned in this <a href="https://itsfoss.com/cpod-podcast-app/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=linux_and_open_source_stories_this_week&utm_term=2018-11-14">article</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">One of the most challenging exercises when it comes to coding, is to remember a code you have used some time ago...but alas you can’t figure it out this time! What makes it frustrating is that you have built something on your own, where you have used a lot of time, now because of memory loss, you can’t simply remember how you did it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Well today we’re presenting <b>Sourcegraph</b> to our ICT students. Sourcegraph is a free, open-source, self-hosted code search and intelligence server that helps developers find, review, understand, and debug code. Use it with any Git code host for teams of any size. Start using it now, then install the Sourcegraph Docker image on your private code.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Search in files and diffs on your private code using simple terms, regular expressions, and other filters. Syncs repositories with your code host and supports searching any commit/branch, with no indexing delay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">It’s very easy to go and buy from shops ready made products if money is not a problem. Yet as educators, we know that money is a problem for most students. Besides the financial problem, one wishes to present our students with a challenge: why not build it yourself? In this case open source becomes an integral part of modern education where students do their research work and make the product themselves! It might take much longer but the learning benefits outweigh all challenges!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">We wish to introduce something which is gaining popularity nowadays: <a href="https://itsfoss.com/open-source-3d-printing/">3D printing!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Open Source 3D Printing eliminates all the issues created by proprietary products. Not only does it reduce costs, it enables easier innovation to solve issues faced during 3D manufacturing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Apparently, the phrase, “Open Source 3D Printing” is also gaining popularity as is evident with a simple search online. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">It is now possible for users to completely <a href="https://opensource.com/article/17/5/open-source-3d-printing-filament" target="_blank">go Open Source</a>, making it possible to greatly reducing production time and manufacturing costs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Some students in high school are practically in a
very delicate situation: they’re still studying, yet they are on
the verge of coming into close contact with the business world. One
hand they’re studying in class, on the other hand they would like
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Today
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billing solution as it gives you all the flexibility and customizable
options you need for highly complex billing. Students will learn how
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it is open source, one can change the program according to his own
business model! One can add new items as well. </span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">jBilling
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services by allowing you to </span><strong><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">isolate
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">How many teachers seem to hold all their notes,
books, experience under a tight padlock? It seems that they are
holding on to their ‘secret’ lessons! Well the advantage of
having an open mentality and sharing your experience means that
others will share too. Consequently one gains rather than loses
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of our students. It was created for the US but one can adopt it for
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any part of the Western Civilization, one notices that music has
become easily accessible and more popular. One notices people walking
with headphones nearly most of the time! One can see people talking
on their own (!). Our young students are crazy for music. Besides one
uses various formats of audio files. Transferring an audio file to
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it calls for a steep learning curve. It seems so daunting in the
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">There are still so many people out there who believe that a free program is non-sense or not worth it at all. We are used to pay for products, services etc...so when something is offered for free we say: what’s the trick? Is there something that I have missed? Are you kidding me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Well, we’ve been saying that in our age transparency is imperative. The fact that an open source could be thoroughly looked at and scrutinized at, makes it a five star program. On the other hand, a propriety program, normally employs a small group of people who have access to the ‘inside’ of the program. The other side of the coin is that in Open Source, anyone who is able to code can 'see' the program and can contribute to it. Can a small number of people from the propriety company compete with such an incredible number of worldwide people who are willing to improve the program? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">This time we have great news for open source: the famous Hollywood has teamed up with Open Source! This is not a joke. Yes it’s true! Could Open Source be a partner with such a famous brand if it hasn’t good quality to offer?</span></div>
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More written help is found <a href="http://goldendict.org/">here</a>.
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Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.</div>
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Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless.</div>
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more; all our products are to inspire the teachers and students to
achieve their potential in learning a foreign language. That’s what
we care most. We produce an extensive range of top-notch educational
materials including readers and activities, picture
dictionaries, online learning materials in various sizes, formats,
and color, as well as tailor-made products to meet the
customized needs of students and teachers.</span></span></div>
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in an area that has an Internet connection.</span></span></div>
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facilitate broad, low-cost adoption, Kolibri is designed to run on as
many devices and operating systems as possible, leveraging existing
legacy hardware or low-cost off-the-shelf devices. This includes
Windows, Linux and OSX. The cost of Android tablets is plummeting, so
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developed special processes to package online learning materials to
be taken offline. One of our innovations is a video compression
technique that convert the pen strokes and objects in a
blackboard-style video into scalable vector objects. In our tests, a
250MB video can now be compressed into just a single megabyte, while
retaining most of the original quality. This reduces the time and
cost needed to download a large set of videos, and allows a large
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and easily, even in informal educational contexts. Kolibri comes with
tools such as a coach dashboard, exam creation, exercises, assignment
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The router is the
gateway for many people to the internet. We’re all in favour of
open source. Most of the routers we find on the market are propriety.
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It’s important
that we do support open source if we truly believe in freedom! It has been proved
beyond any doubt that open source supports 100% freedom for its users.
Other propriety programs and routers can’t guarantee that because
they don’t disclose their code which might contain anything.
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More people, after
the Facebook scandal, are becoming aware of how many people are
watching us behind our backs, registering every movement of our
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Educating people is
not simply helping them overcome exams, but first and foremost
training them to be independent, in thought and action. Those
choosing open source are the ones who are not afraid to learn new
actions and practices for the sake of freedom of thought and
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Today time has become more precious because we live in the age of
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When preparing
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educators simply repeat what others have been already doing for years.
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Openstax is 100%
free. Any author can change the resources found according to his
situation! There is no need to invent the wheel as there are already
some resources which are commonly shared! They are written by
professional content developers who are experts in their fields.
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Exams have become
part and parcel of any education system. But is it just? An exam is
just one time photo! How many talents which students achieve or
master, yet they can’t show them during exams? A portfolio is an
example where a student can show many skills which are not easily
tested during exams!</div>
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Nowadays we speak of
an e-portfolio. Today we present <b>Mahara</b>: an open source
modular e-portfolio system. It can easily be integrated with other
educational programs or Learning Management System (LMS).
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In one link one can
find several links to look for particular help. One finds a musical
tune of Mahara too! Link to <a href="https://mahara.org/view/view.php?id=2">Mahara</a>.
If you prefer more youtube videos for help then go <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mahara">here</a>.
More youtube videos can be found <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mahara+open+source+e+portfolio&t=ffsb&iax=videos&ia=videos">here</a>. The best advantage of Mahara is that it is student centered. A student can simply not only present the final product but present as well the struggles and challenges faced during the duration of the action taken. </div>
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We’ve been writing
about open source software for some years now. We’re making more
popular, programs or operating systems, which otherwise would have
been unknown by the majority of our readers. This is because other
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What about changing
completely and going for open source? In some countries it’s still
not possible as it is centralised by government or an education
department. In other countries they are truly free to roam about and
go for a different choice as long as it helps the education of
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We are presenting
the case of a school which was very successful in going for open
source but a simple google search would lead to more examples. In all
cases, there is no need of a consensus from a large majority. In many
cases it all started with just one single person who was totally
convinced of the need for change in our IT choices! <a href="https://openschoolsolutions.org/how-we-switched-to-open-source-software-in-our-school/">Read
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In a summary we are
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Open source gives
the power to students, teachers and parents to change, fine-tune or
re-program according to the school needs. This has two aspects: it
gives students the power to change programs according to their
wishes. In the meantime they would be preparing themselves for the
working world as they would have some practical experience to when it
comes working in the IT department. Lastly, any program used would be
more efficient, because if not changes can be made.
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Open Source gives
the students the opportunity to study programs and learn how they are
programmed as nothing is hidden! On the other hand students will only
learn as long as they have a hands on experience. Open Source
provides enough hands on experience. Propriety programs would not
allow anyone to tinker with their program! Besides, if the company
goes bankrupt, nobody can continue their work. This is the typical
case of being locked out! In contrast, Open Source programs can be
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As an educator, I
hate to use programs which are costly or which are not available to
students. We use open source, so if the student wants to use the same
program, there are no restrictions (financially or legally)! Students
can download open source programs for free and as many times they
wish to. Practically it’s useless to keep an extra copy because
most of them change frequently and there is no limit as to how many
times one can download.
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The biggest hurdle
is that when it comes to IT most people are very lazy. They are used
to some programs and they feel threatened if the IT department
changes their favourite programs! Others, never thought that a pc
could work without their famous operating system! It was a truly
complete surprise if other unknown operating system run their pc!</div>
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Another hurdle would
be that the teachers responsible for change would need a lot of time
to select the right programs and to become familiar with. Ideally
they would be financially compensated.
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Teachers would like
to use the most popular programs for their teaching. They do this
because students are already very familiar with them. Hence it cuts
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On the other hand,
both teachers and parents are concerned about privacy. Today we’re
presenting a program which can guarantee privacy though using popular
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Everybody has heard
about the cloud. As students, teachers and parents are travelling
nowadays, they would like to be able to fetch their files wherever
they are. There are various clouds solutions out there, but the<b>
cryptomator</b> will ensure that one’s files are encrypted as soon as
they leave the pc/laptop/mobile phone towards the cloud.
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "ubuntu";"><span style="font-size: small;">Today
we present <i>Xtreme Download Manager (XDM)</i>. Works with
all modern browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi etc.,)
available in Mac, Windows, BSD and Linux. It downloads 5 to 6 times
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saving streaming videos from web. XDM has built in video converter
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one wants to download it, simply go </span><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdman/" style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12pt;">here</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "ubuntu"; font-size: 12pt;">.
If one prefers some help via videos, then here is the </span><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=extreme+download+manager&t=opera&iax=videos&ia=videos" style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12pt;">link</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "ubuntu"; font-size: 12pt;">. Here
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schools did experiment with a change in methodology ie how to teach
students today. They are going for project based teaching. One of
them could be the setup of a weather station! Obviously it involves
the collaboration of several teachers and students but that is a
great asset for students today as nobody can work all alone. They see
the example of teachers helping each other. They see various students
giving their input,</span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">comments,
questions…..and that makes teaching and learning real fun! It could be the best preparation for their future when they would be called to work with different type of people!</span></div>
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we are presenting an open source program called <a href="http://weewx.com/">weeWX</a>.
On the same page one can: download; read documentation; go through
the users’ group; learn how to publish readings etc…...If one
prefers youtube videos in order to learn, here is the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=weewx">link</a>.
An interesting factor is that most schools are using the <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/">raspberry
pi 3</a> in order to maintain the weather station!!</span></div>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Support for <a href="http://weewx.com/hardware.html" style="color: #5f8ea9;">many popular weather stations</a>;</li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Uploads to popular weather sites including <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/" style="color: #5f8ea9;">WeatherUnderground</a>, <a href="http://www.pwsweather.com/" style="color: #5f8ea9;">PWSweather.com</a>, <a href="http://www.wxqa.com/" style="color: #5f8ea9;">CWOP</a>, <a href="http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/" style="color: #5f8ea9;">WOW</a>, and <a href="http://awekas.at/" style="color: #5f8ea9;">AWEKAS</a> and <a href="https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki" style="color: #5f8ea9;">others</a>;</li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Uploads to your website using FTP or rsync;</li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Extensive celestial <em>almanac</em>;</li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ability to create or modify <em>skins</em> (the look and feel of your weather site);</li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Calibration corrections;</li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Filtering of anomalous values;</li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">An easy to understand, simple, extensible micro-kernel architecture;</li>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ability to extend weeWX with new services and reports.</span><div>
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Some schools are
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experience. Not only students need to work directly on a project but
they need to work with others, collaborate and change throughout the
experiment. It’s the learning process where students learn to edit
all the way through, as they interact with other students and
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The world they’re
going to work in one day, is based on projects. Hence it makes sense
if they start preparing for the future. Today we’re presenting
another tool in the hands of educators in order to help their
students write their projects: <b>GanttProject. </b>Some functions done by GanttProject are<b>:</b></div>
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<li><strong>Create tasks and milestones</strong>. Aside from the start date and duration, every task may have
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<li><strong>Organize tasks in a work breakdown structure</strong>.
Hierarchical tree where progress, dates or costs of
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Summary tasks can be collapsed to hide tasks which are not important
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<li><strong>Draw dependency constraints</strong> between tasks, like <i>"start X when Y finishes"</i> and GanttProject will take care
of enforcing these constraints. You can add a lag or use other types of constraints.
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<li><strong>Create baselines</strong> to be able to compare current project state with previous plans..
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GanttProject">Wikipedia
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