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8. Download and Explore Applications: Xmind, Scribus Aim: in This Lesson, You Will Learn: to Find an Application for a Given Purpose Download 8. Download and Explore applications: Xmind, Scribus Aim: In this lesson, you will learn: To find an application for a given purpose. To explore independently its features. Yes! I know some of them! Me too! Tejas: I saw my friend’s sister preparing a brochure. She said that she is using a FOSS desktop publishing software. She also told us that she learnt to use the application on her own by exploring its features. What is FOSS? Moz: FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software. You have been using many FOSS applications like Open office, educational games and multimedia applications. Jyoti: Yes. We used these applications for project reports and presentations at competitions. Tejas: These applications were available on all the computers in the lab. Our teacher downloaded and shared the application with us. We could also install these applications at home. Moz: You have already given two parts of the definition of FOSS. One is freedom to use the application for your purposes and the second is freedom to share application with others. There are two more parts to the definition. To understand these, recall what a program code looks like from BASIC and Scratch. Jyoti: Yes. Moz: Any application is written in some programming language and the program code of the application is called source code. Now, suppose you want a feature in Open office word processor which is not available, then you can modify the source code of the application to add the feature. You can also distribute the modified application to others. Freedom to modify and freedom to distribute an application are the third and fourth part of the FOSS definition. 62 FOSS concept Free software is about the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it means that the program’s users have the four essential freedoms: 0. The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). 1. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is essential for this. Providing access to Concept the source code is called Open Source. 2. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). 3. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Jyoti: How do we know how to install and use the features of an application? Moz: Documentation for installation and using the features of the application are usually provided. Sometimes users of FOSS applications put up some tutorials on using the software. You will learn more about user forums later. Using FOSS applications Installation • Many FOSS applications are available for download. • Different distributions are available for different Operating Sytems. (Example: Open Office is available for Ubuntu and Windows OS). Documentation • Is usually available for o Installation Info o Usage of features • Other help links that can be searched for are: tutorials, sample problems and solutions and application output samples. • Some applications may also provide the documentation under the Help menu. Troubleshooting • For clarifications on application, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) section is generally available at the application originating website. • Queries can be uploaded at user forum of the application. Moz: You have used many FOSS applications in earlier lessons. Now you will learn to explore an application’s features on your own. Suppose you want to create a mindmap. You can find the application by searching source forge or Query on Google Foss Mindmap, Application. 63 Explore Xmind XMind, is an open source brainstorming and mind mapping software application. Recall that, brainstorming is a strategy for generating ideas and a mind map is used to visualize, structure, and classify ideas. In a mind map the ideas that are generated during a brain storming session are arranged around a central idea or key word. Xmind: Getting started Use the path Applications--> Office --> Xmind to open this application. It opens an empty workbook, with a placeholder for the central idea or topic. To rename the ‘Central Topic’, select it and type in the required name. Skill To add a ‘Main Topic’, select the Select and rename the ‘Main Topic1’ as ‘Central topic’ and press ‘Enter’ (You per the requirement. To add a subtopic can also use ‘Insert’ option on the press ‘Tab’ key. menubar to add a main topic). To insert a topic in the: 1. Same level - Select a topic and Press ‘Enter’ key. 2. Sub-level - Select a topic and press ‘Tab’ key. Using Xmind In the mind map, you can add: • Notes and pictures to your ideas. • Boundaries to various sections. • Relationship lines between ideas. A mind map for ‘Inside a computer’ drawn using Xmind, is shown below. Guidlines Assignments: Using Xmind, draw a mind map which shows the parts and their functions of a plant cell. 64 Explore Scribus Unleash your creativity, while exploring Scribus, to design a page layout for a newsletter. This is a Desktop Publishing (DTP) application, used to design page layout of the content. (Ex. News paper, Magazines, Brochures, Newsletters). An online manual is available at http://docs.scribus.net Scribus: Getting started 1. Use the path Applications--> Graphics --> Scribus. Select the required settings for document layout, page orientation and size, margin size etc. Then click OK. 2. The document is opened with the selected settings. Insert a text or image frame to add content to the document. Skill In a text frame you can insert only text, while image frame is for inserting images in the document. 3. Right click on the text frame to insert the text. You can type in or paste already typed text . You can even insert files into the text frame. Similarly, you can insert images into the image frame. 4. Click on ‘Get Text’, a pop up window 5. The text in the selected file is inserted is displayed. Browse and select the in the text frame. required file and click Open. 65 Using Scribus For using the application: • Keep all the content and images ready in a directory. • Plan the design of the page, on paper. • Text frames are required for content in text format and image frames are required for images. Check these and other options available under insert Guidlines submenu. • Populate the content as per the design. Note that you may have to resize the images, font sizes etc. Assignments: • Design the newsletter page layout using the two sample formats given below. Use the content of Newsletter that you have prepared in the lesson 3. Lesson Outcome Search Create At the end of this lesson, you will Download be able to: • Surf Internet and find suitable Expl re FOSS application for a given purpose. • Independently explore the features of the application. 66 ACTIVITY Level VII Lesson 8 1. Using Xmind, draw a mind map which shows the parts and their functions of a plant cell. (Refer the page number 64 for details on drawing a mind map using Xmind application.) 2. Create one newsletter page with Scribus, using the newsletter contain that you created in lesson 3. (Refer the page number 66 for a few samples formates of a newsletter.) Expl re 1. List five websites from where you can download educational resources for your class. 2. Find free application of the following : Accounting, Video Editing, Classroom Management. 67 Teacher’s BookLevel VVII Corner LessonLesson 68 The objective of the lesson is to find a FOSS application for a purpose and explore independently (or in groups) the features available in the application. The objective of this lesson is to provide students an exposure to free and open source applications. Two applications – XMind and Scribus are selected for this purpose. The former is a mind mapping software, and later is a desktop publishing software. Begin the class by asking students to name some of the applications they have used. They may say open office writer, impress, Firefox, etc. Now ask them if they have seen same software in other computers , at home or elsewhere. They may mention about other kinds of applications such as power point, Internet explorer, etc. Tell to them that applications can be proprietary or open source. Explain what proprietary and open source means. Emphasize the importance of using FOSS applications and rationale for the same. Give a demonstration of how to search for FOSS application to meet their requirement. You can open the source forge website and give the demo as indicated in the lesson. You can ask the students what kind of software they want to search. They may come with varied answers. List them on the board. Now tell them that let us search for some tool that can be used to draw mind maps. Use this opportunity to revise the concept of mind map. Enter the keyword and most likely you will see xmind application. Students already know what download means. Click on the options and demonstrate how the application is downloaded. Now give a demonstration of how to install the application. Tell them that typically a wizard will take them through the process and mostly clicking on next button will ensure that the application is installed. Open the installed application and ask students to observe the different options. Encourage the students to explore the features on their own and create a mind map. You can instruct the students to create a mind map of the topic ‘inside the computer’ as indicated in the lesson. You can get one student to search for FOSS desktop publishing tool.
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