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Getting Started with Linux for Teachers
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TOPIC
ELEMENTS
RESPONSIBILITY
TIMING
Course housekeeping
15 Mins
Linux Flavours –
Distributions
30 Mins
Live CD's -
Knoppix
PcLinux
KDE
45 Mins
The Desktop
Kicker
Icons
KMenu
Context Menu
Eye candy
Konqueror File manager
Gnome
30 Mins
The Desktop
The Panel
Menus
Icons and Fonts
Nautilus File manager
Documentation
30 Mins
Info
Man Pages
Apropos
How To's
GNU & Unix Commands
60 Mins
Bash shell
root/super user
software management
GNU
Linux Filesystems
Overview
30 Mins
Filesystems Hierarchy
Overview
30 Mins
Mandrake Distribution
120 Mins
Installing Mandrake
Configuring - DrakeConf
Dual Booting
Grand United Bootloader (GRUB)
Package Installation
Linux GUI Applications
120 Mins
OpenOffice -
Windows Compatability
Word Processing (Writer)
Maths formulas in Writer
Draw
Presentation Package (Impress)
Spreadsheet (Calc)
XML & PDF
Web Support for Open Office
Wine & Crossover
Wiki
Project Management Software -
Pioneer
Desktop Publishing -
Scribus
PDA and PIM
Linux MultiMedia
120 Mins
The GIMP (Graphic Image Manipulation Program) -
textures
layer masks
blend modes
editing photos
Blender -
rendering
modelling
lighting
textures and materials
Linux Programming
Overview of -
60 Mins
PHP
Java
Python
IDEs

