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Last modification : 26 November 2007

 

Content of the teacher's cdtoolbox for Linux (version 0.7)

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The teacher's cdtoolbox for Linux is a version that has nothing to do with the Windows one. It is in fact a complete operating system based on the Linux distribution Ubuntu. This distribution can be used as a live DVD or installed on your hard drive. If you want to learn more about Linux, see this course.

To create the teacher's cdtoolbox, Ubuntu was customized. See the following to learn how:

English, French and Portuguese version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

This version of Ubuntu starts in French by default. Most of the softwares are in French, English and Portuguese, depending of the language chosen at the beginning. You don't have to download language packs. The original CDROM of Ubuntu contains various types of softwares : office, working with images, games, Internet, ... The teacher's toolbox for Linux contains all those softwares and more. See below the softwares that have been added.

The teacher's cdtoolbox for Linux needs a DVD for burning, the iso file you can download is too big for a CD..

OpenOffice.org 2.3

Many improvements have been made for OpenOffice.org :

  • The proposed version is French, English or Portuguese depending of the language chosen when starting the live CD.
  • The maths teachers can use Dmaths, a set of macros to write mathematic formulas easily. To use the new toolbars you only have to display them by clicking on "Display" and "Toolbars" (the toolbars names are 'Add-on 1' and 'Add-on 2').
  • The history-geography teachers will find many maps from OOo.HG already installed. They are in the gallery of OpenOffice.org.
    • For Sciences teachers, I added clipart from the project Dsciences
  • Thousands of cliparts of the OpenClipart project have been added.
  • The default icons are not very beautiful. They have been replaced by the 'Crystal' theme.
  • Finally you can find lots of ready to use templates from OOextras.

Maths

The following maths softwares have been added :

  • Geogebra is a dynamic mathematics software
  • Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ...
  • Dmaths is a set of macros to help write mathematics more easily.
  • K3DSurf is a program to visualize and manipulate Mathematical models in three, four, five and six dimensions

History-Geography

The history-geography teacher's should appreciate :

  • The various maps from the OOo.HG project
  • Qgis, a geographic information system

Multimedia

To read and manipulate videos and sound files :

  • VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.
  • Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application. You can also read podcasts (for exemple for the English teachers, those from the BBC).
  • Istanbul to record your desktop. For example, you can create demos for your students..
  • With Audacity you can edit sounds. Very useful for language and music teachers .
  • Kino is for editing videos.
  • Inkscape is a Vector Graphics Editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator, that strives to be SVG Compliant, open source, responsive and extensible.
  • Mplayer is a movie player for Linux. Supports reading from network, dvd, vcd, file, ... The plugin for Mozilla is also installed..
  • Soundconverter is very useful to convert sounds :-).

Internet

Some sofwares have been added to create web pages and communicate :

  • Quanta is a non WYSIWYG web page editor. It is also in French since the version 0.6 of the teacher's cdtoolbox.
  • Kompozer is a WYSIWYG web page editor. It is more for beginners. It's better to use Quanta+ if you aren't a beginner.
  • With gFTP you can transfer your files to a web server via the FTP protocol .
  • Thunderbird is an email reader.
  • Wifi-radar detects wireless networks.

Education

Children are not forgotten with Linux :

  • Children love Gcompris to learn, read, calculate, ... and much more.
  • Tuxmath, maths for children.
  • Tuxpaint, drawing for children.

Miscellaneous

Some more softwares that have been added to the original version of Ubuntu :

  • Scribus is a professional layout and publishing software for Linux supporting EPS and SVG.
  • Gnomebaker is a CD burning tool.
  • Clamav is an anti-virus.
  • QCad is an application for computer aided drafting in two dimensions (2d). With QCad you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts or schemas and diagrams.
  • Beagle is a desktop search engine.
  • Abiword is a light word processor.
  • Wine is for using Windows softwares under Linux.
  • LTSP is a terminal server.
  • Canorus est un éditeur de partitions musicales.

Educational ressources

Since version 0.6, some bookmarks have been added in Firefox. There aren't many, but I will add more later. These bookmarks are only in French for the moment. I have also added a folder with examples of using ICT in Education.

Updates

All the updates available on the 26th of November have been installed.

If you want to know more, this page describes how this DVD was made. You can use it to create your own customisation of Ubuntu .