[FM Discuss] Dream School manual in English, Finnish and Swedish

[Mick - Floss Manuals]

First up,
This sounds lie a great project!

On 10/02/13 08:28, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> It will be published on the Dream web site as well as FLOSS Manuals,
> but there is probably a need to make an additional customized
> Bookipublisher Lite version like some of the books have. The Dream
> team has a lot of video tutorials available, so there should be a
> special version of the manual with lots of embedded video, and that is
> not possible on the FM sites.
That sounds like a good idea. Maybe you can get them to allocate a small
amount of funding to achieve this. You could explain the civiCRM
situation as an example.

> It might be similar to OLPC/Sugar manuals in the sense that it is used
> by children at school. So I would say a lot of it would be simple
> procedures with lots of screenshots, and then there would be a
> separate part two for teachers in the end. And possibly a short third
> part of technical stuff. Maybe OLPC/Sugar people can give advice about
> what a FLOSS Manual for children should be like. But this is why I
> think that the second version should be done with teachers. I cannot
> really go and tell the teachers they want to write a computer manual,
> but showing them the first version and asking them how it would be
> more useful in a school setting might work a lot better.

I think you are right on this too. Do a version one for feedback.
I'm thinking this is a good focus for a Grundvig application too. A
gathering to work out "How do we best 'course-ify' existing resources",
be they FLOSS Manuals, disparate blog posts and wikis  etc.  This builds
on Booksprints but gets to grip with creating exercises that teachers
can use and adapt.

I've been working on this with Anna with the  new manual on How to Use
Video Editing Software. Here we integrated exercises or Hand On
activities into the chapters.
But a separate section with teaching resources / exercises is another
good approach, or as a separate work book if it doesn't seem to fit right.

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