Today I want to tell you about an interesting project in Galicia, in Spain, it is Abalar, which integrates information technologies and knowledge in the school environment from an early age. Children have equipment in classrooms that allow them to interact with digital materials to complement their teaching.
You may wonder, where does free software come in? Well, let's talk about the equipment they have. Children can have an ultraportable with 1 GB of RAM, 250 GB of hard disk and an Intel Atom processor at 1,66 GHz, the operating system it uses is a GNU Linux distribution, as indicated on its official website, but for the photo taken to the team can be seen that it is Ubuntu, although it is never specified.
And although they have other devices, such as a projector, a laptop charging cabinet and a router, I will focus on showing you the SMART Board 680V interactive whiteboard, which is sensitive to the touch.
Laptops are equipped with tools like Libre Office and Gimp. And the contents of the classes will be available through the Creative Commons license.
Article taken from the Cuban national intranet, site humans, written by Carlos Osiel Rojas Velazquez.
Greetings KZKG ^ Gaara, I just want to clarify that the name of the project is Abalar, not Alabar as you say in the article.
Thank you very much, I am editing the article right now 🙂
Great so the kids will live with free software
thank you very much I already put it on my wall
Thanks to you for commenting 🙂
I got this link
http://www.edu.xunta.es/espazoAbalar/es/espazo/proxecto-abalar/introducion
First of all tell you that I am delighted that you have echoed an initiative like this, carried out in Galicia (Spain) in your blog, of which I have been a longtime follower. This project tries to promote the introduction of ICT in the educational environment and is currently deployed in more than 430 educational centers (more than 40000 laptops for students and teachers).
The link mentioned by Giskard can serve as a starting point to learn the basics of the project. Just mention that the project is now in its third year of life and the distribution it uses is Debian 6 "Squeeze". Only the first year the UNR version of Ubuntu 10.04 was used due to the use of touch screen netbooks, but in the next two years it was decided to install the "mother" distro but maintaining a UNR-style side menu with all its functionalities.
Thank you very much for the comment 🙂
We always try to spread ideas, news or initiatives that are interesting, what happens is that we are always short of time ^ - ^ U
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although the children do use the free software plan in the classes, the teachers and the computer room in most of the centers with this plan is the «windows»
With what in my modest opinion what can a child think who uses free software and sees that teachers use proprietary software? Not a good example, I think.
I am not saying that they are all but I know cases of being like that, the only advantage is that at least they do use it that short time since it is not easy for them to use it at home.
Good initiative: D!
Regards!
Hello mates,
I am a colleague of Fran and she told me that you were echoing the Project. We leave you three links associated with what we call "Abalar Software Consolidation", which would be a subproject of Abalar, and whose motto is: "Digital Educational Center Server and Software Models using Free Software":
* Document «Free Software and the Abalar Project»: http://www.edu.xunta.es/centros/abalar/aulavirtual/mod/book/view.php?id=1451
* Technical information wiki (under construction): http://www.edu.xunta.es/wikiabalar/index.php5/Consolidaci%C3%B3n_Software_Abalar
* Teams wallpaper: http://www.edu.xunta.es/centros/abalar/aulavirtual/file.php/23/imaxes/20130221_fondo_abalar_1366x768.png
From Galicia we thank you DesdeLinux Hey everyone who commented
A great initiative, unfortunately not all of us can receive an education only based on free software, I do the higher degree of application development and I have to swallow learning the shit of windows phone 8.
In addition, Microsoft is quite intelligent and based on giving away licenses it makes you have to use their software, they use it there because they were given development licenses, I argued that the android ones were free and free but there was no way to convince them.
It's a shame that not even saying that you commit to obtaining the same result with completely free software will allow you to do so. I hope that this type of practice will spread and that Microsoft will stop buying wallet-based institutes as it has done with mine.
It's a great initiative, my 10-year-old son uses Debian at school… I'll put that down there :).
Well, seriously, I am delighted with this initiative of the Xunta and very proud that it has been carried out in Spain, since unfortunately we do not shine in these things.
Teachers have dual-boot computers, and I suspect that is because they also use them for administrative tasks. The administration itself needs to make the jump to SL.
But hey, you start with something. At least our children know that there are other worlds.
But Ubuntu is not free.
Richard Stallman himself says so.
From what I see it is Ubuntu netbook edition, that edition I think it stopped being from version 10.04, it seems to me if I'm not bad, but hey, if it is not official that this edition is or not, it is gratifying that it will be with free software! Cheers!
Read this comment:
https://blog.desdelinux.net/proyecto-alabar-educacion-con-software-libre/#comment-51698
Do you have assigned rights to use the images you use ???? © Xunta de Galicia
Good.
Are the images copyrighted and you are not allowed to use them?
Excellent news, not only because of the use of free software itself but also because of the internalization of the reasons for using them for students.
A hardware shit like the one used by the program to connect equality from Argentina, they should have a minimum of 2 Gb of ram and a better mic than that shit of atom at 1.66
It will read very silly and absurd but, this article brought tears to my eyes:… ..-) snif snif let's move on.
The system they use is a Debian 6, to which they have installed the Ubuntu 10.04 themes and the Netbook Remix interface, as well as other modifications.