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mEDUXa

Educational linux distribution of the Canarian Goverm ent

ANTONIO JIM ÉNEZ M ORILLA MEDUSA TECHNICAL COORDINATOR OF INFRAESTRUCTURE & SYSTEMS

AGUSTÍN BENITO BETHENCOURT DEVELOPER COMPANIES COORDINATOR CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES P ROJECT M ED U S A

Pact o por la Educación La calidad, com prom iso de t odos F S E F EDER CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES

P re s e n t a t io n

 Ca n a ry Is la n d  CECD  1 .1 0 0 s c h o o ls  2 3 .0 0 0 te a c h e rs  3 0 0 .0 0 0 s tu d e n ts CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES Wh a t is M ED U S A ?

A M a c ro p ro je c t in Ed u c a tio n a l In n o va tio n In c o rp o ra tin g ICT t o t h e Te a c h in g /Le a rn in g P ro c e s s .

Definit ion & Organizat ion Planned Changes

Im p le m e n ta tio n • Ob je c t ive s Te a c h e r ( m e th o d o lo g y) • P e o p le in vo lve d S t u d e n ts ( Le a rn in g ) • S t ra t e g ic lin e s Org a n iza t io n o f S p a c e s • Ac tio n s t o im p le m e n t Eq u ip m e n t • Le ve ls • In te ve n tio n s tra te g ie s • Eva lu a t io n CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES

Wh a t o b je c tive s d o th e p ro je c t a im fo r? To in te g ra t e ICT in e d u c a t io n t o im p ro ve Ge n e ra l te a c h in g a n d le a rn in g q u a lit y.

To g e t a c ritic a l m a s s o f u s e rs . ( te a c h e rs , S tra te g ic s tu d e n ts a n d p a re n ts )

❍ To c re a te in n o va t ive e n viro n m e n ts a n d Ot h e rs s itu a tio n s

❍ To u s e ICT a s a c o m m u n ic a tio n t o o l a n d to a c c e s s a n d s p re a d in fo rm a tio n .

❍ To re n o va t e s c h o o l a d m in is tra tio n a n d m a n a g e m e n t CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES Wh ic h P ro c e s s e s a re in vo lve d ?

 Eq u ip m e n t  Cu rric u lu m in te g ra tio n  Tra in in g /On -lin e tra in in g  Cla s s ro o m ta s k s /H o m e w o rk .  S c h o o l a n d Ed u . Ad m . m a n a g e m e n t  S c h o o l P la n n in g CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES Wh ic h a re th e P ro je c t s t ra te g ic lin e s ?

S c h o o l Eq u ip m e n t Te a c h e r a n d n e t la yo u t Tra in in g re s o u rc e s

Ed u c a tio n a l Im p le m e n ta tio n

Ed u c a t io n a l S c h o o l M a n a g e m e n t In n o va tio n a n d Re s e a rc h CCoo mm uu nn iiccaattiioo nn ss CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES

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LOCAl N ETWORK Co m u n ic a tio n s

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At Ad m in is tra t io n Le ve l Co n n e c t io n t o th e Co n s e je ría Ce n tra l S e rvic e s . D a ta , Offic ia l D o c u m e n ta tio n ..... Ed u c a tio n a l S e rvic e s ( Re s o u rc e s , o n -lin e tra in in g , ....

At S c h o o l Le ve l Ed u c a t io n S c h o o l N e t

At S c h o o l Le ve l W e b w it h Ed u c a tio n a l In fo rm a tio n CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES

WAN CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES

Glo b a l D ire c t o ry

gobiernodecanarias.net

Medusa.gobiernodecanarias.net

OUs correspondientes a cada consejería Dominio que comprende los OU para la Consejería usuarios y equipos del entorno de Educación, Cultura Medusa y Deportes CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES

S e g m e n t a c ió n CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES

CAS E

Gu id e u s e rs to th e e d u c a tio n a l s is te m s o f in fo rm a tio n . P re ve n tive a n d c o rre c t ive o p e ra tio n . S e c u rity ( c o n fid e n c ia b ility, in t e g rity a n d a u th e n tic ity) .  To c e n t ra lic e th e a d m in is t ra tio n o f th e te c h n ic a l re s o u rc e s , in a d d it io n w ith p o litic s th a t m a k e e a s ie r th e m a n a g e o f th e “d e s c e n tra lia za c in ” b y s c h o o ls in th e ir e d u c a tio n a l p o rje c t s . M a n a g e a ll th e re s o u rc e s . Au to m a tic m o n ito rin g o f th e s e rvic e . CON S EJERÍA D E ED U CACIÓN , CU LTU RA Y D EP ORTES

P la n n e d Ac tio n s in th e P ro je c t D e ve lo p m e n t

Act ions in all Prim ary Schools ACTION 1 t o act ivat e and use of ( 2 0 0 1 - 2 0 0 3 ) resources t o access Int ernet . St udent s and t eachers sm art cards.

ACTION 2 Teachers Cent res, Adult ( 2 0 0 1 -2 0 0 3 ) Educat ion Cent res, Secondary Schools

ACTION 3 ( 2 0 0 4 -2 0 0 6 ) Prim ary Schools

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WHAT'S m EDUXa

An open software distribution, developed with educational aim s as part of the MEDUSA project. It's financed by the Canary Islands' Departm ent of Education, Culture and Sports. MEDUSA structure on Windows. Dual boot in clients. Identical functions on both platform s. Developed by 5 Canary Open Software com panies (ESLIC): i Fotón Sistem as Inteligentes ii Conysis Inv. y Des. iii Ejercicios Resueltos iv Neuroom ante v Bufete Fajardo López m EDUXa is m ade-up of five different parts: a. the m odel b. the installer c. the updater d. m onitoring e. contents CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

GENERAL CONDITIONS

Developed, wherever possible, with free software license as defined in the Debian guidelines. Includes applications which are free for educational use only. No license barriers to future developm ent, by the Education Dept., related to m EDUXa. The estable version will be released with a report on licenses. CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

THE DISTRIBUTION

Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge) KDE 3.4.1 Wide selection of educational software Pre-installed and pre-configured Validates against Active Directory + Kerberos + LDAP Self-m ounting of rem ote volum es ($HOME) WiFi Validation WPA Authenticated against RADIUS / Active m EDUXa Directory Medusa corporate im age CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

THE INSTALLER

On new PCs, the m EDUXa m odel will be pre-installed on the hard drive. On PCs in use, an installer will be developed Allows partitioning, form atting and m EDUXa system dum ping onto the hard drive. Must co-exist with MS Windows istallation for dual boot. Based on the Debian GNU/Linux Sarge installer. CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

UPDATING SYSTEM

Needed to m aintain functionality and security. Flexible, allowing program m ing and reconfiguration of the distribution. Based on debian (sarge) packages and on debian apt system . Own package repository (on our central repository server). Virtual packages to add new packages or group them according to needs.

Unattended installation. CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

UPDATING PROCESS

Autom atic previous testing of the new packages and installers. Autom atic distribution to the schools' servers. On these are kept all the updating packages since the release of the distro. When the com puters are turned on, they update and locally load the pending packages. When the com puters are turned off, the pending packages are installed (unattended).

Any issues are reported to the m onitoring system CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

THE CENTRAL SERVER

Server with Debian OS + XEN and the following services: Monitoring system . Central repository of m odel packages for the updating system . Project back-up Eduwiki (contents tool). Debian m irror CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

CHOICE OF DESKTOP

Two choices had to be m ade:

1: light weight or robust desktop? After trials on the oldest com puters we chose to use a robust one

2: KDE or GNOME? CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

WHY KDE?

Solid techincal guarantee Large com m unity Integration between various user applications Kiosk m ode. KDE-Edu project - large num ber of quality educational applications Our own learning experience Changing the desktop language is sim ple CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

DISADVANTAGES OF KDE

i.Very robust, slows down the m achines used in the first phase of the project (PIII 1GHz 128 MB RAM). ii. Other Spanish educational projects have chosen gnom e, so technical interaction will be harder. iii. Som e applications and utilities are not desirable, but it's not technically adequate to rem ove them . CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

OVERCOMING THOSE DISADVANTAGES

Interaction with other education projects not technically necessary, however desirable. We'll cooperate in content m atters and other experiences. Solving the slowing-down of the PC's due to the robust desktop:

a) m ake lighter the desktop load b) use applications that take-up less resources c) get advice from the kde developm ent team , to cooperate on this and other m atters d) develop specific solutions which will then be m ade available to the com m unity CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

KIOSK MODE

Aim : To lim it system configuration capabilities, in order to avoid problem s due to incorrect or wrong choosing of options. Solution: KDE's kiosk m ode We use it (for exam ple) in the configuration of: K m enu. Screensaver. Wallpaper. Font types and sizes.

Colors and windows styles. CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

DESKTOP CUSTOMIZING

We have m ade certain custom izations to sim plify user experience. We have tried to m ake the environm ent be sim ilar on both platform s, especially the links to inform ation storing spaces.

We have m ade custom izations on the KDE panel. CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

K MENU CUSTOMIZATION

K m enu has been rearranged, especially the educative applications part.

We are considering rem oving the debian m enu.

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CRITERIA FOR SELECTING APPLICATIONS

1.Legal

2.Technical

3.Com patibility and integration

4.Only one application is included for each task 5.Live project: an active group of developers guarantees the continuity of the application, and its possible interactions with other applications CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

USER APPLICATIONS Accessories and ut ilit ies Office KGhost view . Viewer for PS/PDF files. OpenOffice. Office com puting package. Ark. Com pressors and decom pressors. Kile. LaTeX text editor, for later conversion into *.pdf form at. Kcalc. Calculator. KAddressbook. Address book. Ksnapshot . Screen captures. KOrganizer. Personal assistant for appointm ents and calendar. Kpdf. Viewer for pdf files. Kont act . Personal inform ation m anagem ent. Actually an Xpdf. Viewer for pdf files. interface for other applications. KFloppy. Floppy disk form atting. Edit ors KColorChooser. Colour chooser. Kat e. Text editor that can be used with Konqueror to navigate Knot es. For sim ple notes and rem inders. through text and configuration files. Klipper. Clipboard tool KW rit e. Text editor. KDEPrint fax. Sending of faxes. Dia o Kivio. Drawing of diagram s. Kruler. Ruler. useful for m easuring the pixel size of windows and screens. M ult im edia In te rn e t K3 b. Burning and ripping of CDs. Konqueror. Navegador-gestor de archivos-cliente FTP. Am aroK. Audio player. Firefox. Navegador. KM ix. Controller for I/O devices and general audio m anagem ent. GnuPG y KGPG. Gestión de claves OpenPGP. KAudioCreat or. Ripping of audio CD's. Kget . Gestor de descargas de KDE. Kaffeine. Viewing and listening to m ultim edia files. Kopet e. Cliente de m ensajería instantánea. Digikam . Capture of photographies from USB cam eras. The Knode. Cliente de servicios de noticias. best in its class. Korn. Program a de aviso de nuevos correos. Kino. Video editor. KBear. Cliente FTP.

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SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATION APPLICATIONS

Sam e general criteria Applications m ust be fam iliar to the com panies providing support These applications will be used by authorized staff of the centre, and Medusa system s and m aintenance technicians. Must replicate the user profiles structure inherited from Active Directory. Both platform s view groups and user perm issions differently, affecting adm in tasks and services (printing, external storage devices, com m on peripherals, etc.). Applications m ust be chosen for their ability to overcom e this hurdle.

The applications have NOT been chosen at this stage. CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS

The included applications are those availble on Windows or equivalent: JClic Mr Potato Tux Paint Kaffeine Audacity Gim p At the begining of Septem ber, it'll be considered whether to include additional educational applications in this first phase. Som e of these belong to the KDE-

EDU project. CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

OTHER APPLICATIONS i.No other type of applications will be considered in this first phase. ii. In the second phase the following applications will be considered: Classroom control applications Applications for the developm ent of learning units Student-m anagem ent applications

Collaborative content creation tools for the students CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN CULTURA Y DEPORTES

MANUALS AND OTHER CONTENTS

The m anual will be a .pdf file, with open license. The approach taken is that of a Quick Guide or Mini How To

This is being written by a group of proffessionals using Mediawiki.