Education Conferences: Workshops on K12LTSP, Moodle, Ubuntu, SchoolTool

15,000+ educators in attendance at NECC

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Teachers followed along on IBM Thinkpad laptops

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Use your noodle, learn Moodle! presenter Michelle Moore

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Resource Collection

NECC 2006

* David Thornburg: "When Best is Free: An Educator's Guide to Open Source"
* Michelle Moore: "Use Your Noodle, Learn Moodle: An Open Source Learning Management System"
* Will Richardson: "Learning With Blogs: Bringing the Read/Write Web Into the Classroom"
* Jeffrey Elkner: "A Tour of Ubuntu with Free CD"
* Jenny Horn: "Hello World: Starting at the Very Beginning with PHP"
* Bryant Patten: "Open Source Technology: Why Teachers Should Care"
* Tim Frichtel: "Great Web Sites with Open Source Content Management Systems"
* Steve Hargadon: "K12LTSP: Low-cost, Stable, and Reliable Computer Labs"
* Chris Walsh: "Content is STILL King: FREE Blogging & Content Management Systems"
* James Klein: "Creating Communities with Open Source Tools"
* Tom Hoffman: "SchoolTool: a Free, Open Source SIS and Calendaring System"
* Vernon Ceder: "Computer Programming for Everybody: TeachingProgramming with Python"

We'll also have a "birds of a feather" meeting on Open Source software in K12 schools, to be followed by a proposed dinner event with those interested in talking about the future of Open Source software in Education.

Mike Huffman from Indiana has also said that he will be attending, and we're going to try and find a venue for his participation as well--many of us are very interested in an update on the Indiana ACCESS program!

In addition to the Open Source lab, we'll have a "Playground" area with 6 booths to showcase different Open Source technologies real-time. Currently planned are booths for:

* SchoolTool & CanDo 2006 (A FREE, Web-Based, Competency Tracker)
* Ubuntu & Fedora Core
* Moodle & Moodle e-portfolio
* Open Office & Firefox
* Gimp
* Asterisk & Mambo/Joomla