[OLPC India] Which school books ?

satyaakam goswami satyaakam at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 16:10:10 EST 2008


http://linuxschools.tripod.com/pdf/book11.pdf

On Jan 16, 2008 11:30 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com> wrote:
> There is a middling good wiki book in english on assembling a desktop
> computer.
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_To_Assemble_A_Desktop_PC
>
> I don't know how much use it would be to you.  But perhaps something could
> be built off of it?
>
> Please, let me better understand your requirements, I'm not familiar with
> the terminology of the Indian education system.  Class 1 to 5?
>
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2008 5:26 AM, Marc Valentin < mvalentin at oeuvredespains.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > In our school, they use the school books series "My Computer" done by
> > "R.P. Gupta & Sons - Delhi 110051". Class 1 to 5.
> > These books explain hardware, that is ok, but all of the software part
> > is focused on Microsoft Windows (Paint, MSWord, etc.).
> > I wish I could replace these books by some other company's books
> > having a more "neutral" approach. We are going to start using a few
> > Asus EeePC and XOs, so I would like to find books useful with that
> > context. Do you have any suggestion ?
> > Another question is : syllabus. What is defined in the CBSE syllabus
> > for the computer class ? Is it fine to teach Linux in higher class or
> > CBSE is forcing to teach MS Windows ?
> > -marc valentin-
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