Re: [OS:N:] Classes (was: Open office community classes)

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:37, Chris Spencer wrote:
> I have a plan to teach:
> Open Office - Writer
> Open Office - Calc
> Open Office - Impress
> Parent/Kids - Tux Paint (Others?  Likely - Considering making a kids
> knoppix distro)
> Graphics Basics - Intro to gimp and 3D rendering
> Graphics Advanced - Advanced gimp and 3D rendering (more tips/tricks)
> 
> So that's 6 of the 8 things.  Does anyone have some input on this?  I
> was thinking maybe an Intro to Open Source and Linux...but wasn't sure
> if that shouldn't be a marketing thing to introduce the classes to the
> community.
> 
Couple more things which are I have found to be useful, first is
printing/scanning. There are a few tools, and it is distribution
independant in most cases as to which one you will encounter. Norm over
here has gone to great lengths to add a nice drag and drop printing
mechanism and cups makes finding printers on a corporate network pretty
simple. However, if you want color, or higher resolution, or for all
thats good and holy legal paper size instead of a4, it would be nice to
have some instruction for new users on this. Home users often just want
to print their pictures well, and thats not the easiest task if you
arent familiar with the system. This would probablly be a part of your
other discussions though.

My daughter has asked me several times how to mount a floppy to present
her class paper on. Mounting of filesystems, and the nifty panel applets
that go along with this task would make sense. 

Also saving in different file formats that the students teachers might
have. The joys of rtf, and xml etc. 

If you are going for neat tools instead you might offer a class in
gnucash or some other money management tool.... cbtracker is a neat tool
too, and saves in files you can import to your favorite proprietary app.
Another option would be dvd playing under Linux with xine and
cinnelerra. Or a multimedia class.... there are some pretty sweet movie
making tools under Linux, also sound tools... from encoders to graphical
plugins. Also realplayer and how to enable plugins in mozilla.

Another possibility might be personal messaging. Gaim is a great
foundation for connecting multiple proprietary tools. Also the gnome
meeting software is pretty slick. 

Id also be tempted to show pdf usage and writing... print to ps then run
ps2pdf and voila! At laest under the writer section you were already
planning:)

The last two Ill suggest are more utilities to help. First file-roller
off the main menu. This allows people who are pretty unfamiliar with
gzip and tar to still successfully deal with us techy types. Last would
be evolution/internet tools/palm-handspring interaction. This makes life
easy for them to manage their time/mail.

--J
A man of a million faces still has but one soul.

> -Chris
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