[FM Discuss] workbooks

[adam hyde]

hey

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 06:56 +1200, Martin Kean wrote:
> I'm interested, I'll ask my students to think of some exercises for the Digital Foundations manual.

tres rockn

> Also, I have funding for a Digital Foundations newspaper, which I'm planning on formatting directly from a narrow-column Objavi PDF.

cool. douglas and i were talking about getting the newsprint generator
ready quickly for this and maybe also ready intime for wikimania

adam



> Martin
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> hey all,
> 
> Im in localisation zone at the moment - Douglas has been doing a lot of
> work on this, and I have been working on Finnish and French
> localisation, but more on all this in the next days...,during the last
> days however i had pause to think about a few things including
> Workbooks. This was inspired by a meeting with Cara (the book maker that
> will post some material to the list tomorrow for feedback)...
> 
> I was wondering if we could start putting together some work books based
> on the manuals we currently have? The Command Line book, for example,
> would make wonderful material for a work book...each chapter could be
> followed by a chapter with exercises in it...
> 
> anyone interested into putting something like this together? we could
> start a workbook category and put some workbooks there...an ubuntu
> manual would also be good material...also the Digital Foundation
> textbook ( and we have others that might also be formulated this way)...
> 
> the good thing is that we can build a work book by including chapters of
> existing manuals and adding extra chapters. We could, for example, make
> a new 'manual' that mirrors the Command Line manual, take out many of
> the later chapters, and then add the workbook exercise chapters...
> 
> we could then start targeting some educators and try and convince them
> to use the workbook/manual in courses...
> 
> anyone keen?
> 
> adam
> 
> 
> 
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