On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:09:53PM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Hi Jonas, dear list, On Sa 01 Jan 2011 20:03:22 CET Jonas Smedegaard wrote:On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 07:53:19PM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:I have a cooperation running with a school in Kiel that uses video software (like kino) for dubbing already existing documentaries and replacing the narrators audio track (mostly English) with their own explanations of what is seen in the video.Having an education-videoeditor meta package for Skolelinux will probably quite valueable to some institutions.Interesting!I see no problem, however, in those schools installing relevant video editing tools _after_ the core installation of Skolelinux.Also, it seems to me that actual video editing is a heavy-weight approach. Have you considered instead to have them use a subtitle editor?As I am not teaching this class (only supporting) I don't know about the exact educational objective of this class. I imagine one aspect is: learning how to speak in an appropriate way for recording audio tracks.
I see. Sure there are valuable learning in the full editing process - I just reacted on the specifics you described :-)
As the school I talk about (Lernwerft Club of Rome Schule Kiel, www.lernwerft.de) works with block periods (,,Epochenunterricht'' in German) they have ,,more'' time for this kind of work (i.e. a complete morning as opposed to a 45 minutes lesson).
Ahh - I am big fan of "Epochenunterricht"! I am not a teacher but was taught like that myself, and my kids are now too (or my "bonus-kids" as it's called here in Denmark when I didn't produce them myself).
Subtitling might also be some other nice feature that could be used in schools, though.
Yeah, just a suggestion :-)
BTW: the Lernwerft uses a self-made Ubuntu Linux setup that I build up from scratch as I had not known enough about Skolelinux when I did the setup (and thus: not taken Skolelinux into consideration, which I start doing now for other school IT-projects around Kiel ;-) ).
Quite interesting, for me! I have a special interest in decomposing Debian-based (including Ubuntu-based) systems and try recompose it as a Debian Pure Blend (i.e. fully embedded in Debian itself) so as to be reusable by Skolelinux and others.
Did you hack on top of an Ubuntu LiveCD or how did you work on this? Is the "sources" (whatever they are) available publicly somewhere - preferrably with notes on what tweaks/cuastomizations you did and how you did it?
Please let's not here on this list dive into the details of doing things differently than done by Skolelinux - perhaps contact me privately, and I might help collect and summarise the info and - if others are curious about it too - we can put it up on a wiki page.
Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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