Re: Spark and KDE and Tablet-Projects for Schools in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony/Germany)

Moin,

> school for
> vocational education in Niedersachsen
Which region? There also should be a 'medienpädagogischer Berater' around and maybe he or she is an open-minded being and joins an alternative branch of the tablet-project ;-)

> If you want to have the slightest chance to get even considered for the
> deal, you will have to talk to the schoolbook publishers. The most
> important of them seem to be  Westermann and Bildungsverlag Eins.  If
> you don't get them into your boat forget about the project. If you do,
> you will have a deal.
> Where does this strong requirement come from? Is this just the practical need
> to have access to the books you are used to, or is there more behind this?
>
> Do you think there is an opportunity for collaboratively created content in
> this space, something like a Wikipedia for school books?
The situation of the publishers is still weak: Although they slowly 
starts to offer e-books, these contents are mostly digitalized copies of 
the printed editions. And of course that misses all the advantages of 
interactive and even multimedia-content. Apple not only offers e-books, 
but also the free tool to create content. And within the 'Medienberatung 
Niedersachsen' self-generated contents is a 'must-have'. The aim is to 
enrich the Niedersächsischen multimedia-pool ('Merlin' under 
http://www.nibis.de/nibis.phtml?menid=35) with user-generated content.
This also could be a chance for an open tablet: Which file-formats are 
supported by the KDE system - and which cross-platform tools for 
creating contents are available?
>> The schoolbook publishers are competing with Apple
>> in this field and seem to be a little bit late. The schools don't care
>> about the technical basis of their devices, they are required to access
>> content provided by the publishers through them. If the publishers do
>> not support your device, it's not for schools. Don't expect them to be
>> especially fond of open source. Your best bet will be an over all open
>> platform which provides some hermetically closed cage for their content.
You are so right! This is the obvious advantage of apple ipad for 
end-users/schools: They do not have to care about anything. Within their 
cage everything (hardware, software and content) works fine.
But the questions aren't answered by the publishers and apple yet: their 
type of media are outdated sooner or later and apple closes the system 
to some contents and technologies, e.g. flash-content. Niedersachsens 
widespread used and linuxbased schoolserver-system Iserv isnt supported 
very well by Ipads. Again a chance for an open system.
> But it would need some more details about the technology
> behind it to be able to tell, if it still could fit into an open platform.
Another question: Which open format provides interactive 
multimedia-content, is editable and fits to an open platform. And (the 
wish of every non-IT-teacher) is easy to use? HTML(5), Epub?

Daniel




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