Topic outline

  • General

    • Aggiornare la bibliografia della pagina principale

    • How to follow webinars in this course


      • How to follow webinars in this course (webinar) SCORM package

        This course is made up of some units. Each of these units contains one or more webinars. Each webinar must be completed to get the final certificate. To complete a webinar we have to do actions required by the webinar, mainly  clicking and typing. You have a couple of attempt for each action. If both goes wrong you fail that action. You can fail up to 20% of all actions in each webinar. It is quite difficult not to pass a webinar at the first try but, if this happens, you must redo the webinar from the very beginning.  Furthermore, actually clicking and typing  is neither interesting nor profitable. You are supposed to try the actions you see in the webinar in a parallel, real, environment on your computer. So, if you cannot understand how to follow a webinar, after following this webinar, you will be able to follow a webinar.

    • Get some web space


      • Get some web space (webinar) SCORM package

        A web space is made up of some disk space on a machine connected to the internet plus some programs that runs for you on that machine. Surprisingly this comes for free.... Let's see how to grab some free webspace.

    • Install Portable Apps onto a USB 3.0 key


      • Portable Apps (webinar) SCORM package

        Most teachers swap classrooms several times during the day. In each classroom they have to log in into a different computer and find a slightly different environments. Most of them do not control these environments. They do not have admin privileges and therefore  they cannot install programs.

        They try to keep afloat putting some data (e.g. videos) on a usb key or onto a cloud. Very often the network is down or extremely slow so the usb key is, by far, the most reliable solution. In this webinar you will see how to install a shell that provides a wealth of useful free programs that can be installed onto a usb key without admin privileges.  This shell is called Portable Apps.

        Portable Apps programs do not save information outside the usb key and therefore you can install Mozilla from Portable Apps and save your passwords and personal data when at school or in class. Your sensitive data will remain on the usb key.  This solution will enable us to show, later in this course, how to save all your materials onto the cloud and make them available, selectively, to students. 

        The downside of this approach is that programs runs from the usb key. Usb memories are slower than hard disks but, nowadays, the difference in speed is not so disturbing if you use a usb 3.0 pen plugged into a usb 3.0 port.. So take care to find a usb 3.0 pen. Usb 3.0 plugs are usually blue.

         

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        • Install Nextcloud onto a free hosting service


          • Install Nextcloud (webinar) SCORM package

            Cloud services offer a way to have ubiquitous access to your data from every computer connected to the internet. This, in turn, allows apps to have a consistent transparent behaviour across all devices owned by a user. To obtain such a transparency   people relies on hosted commercial cloud architectures  they not control. As a result users data are available for the cloud provider for profiling and data mining. Furthermore, the choice of a particular cloud provider, suggests the adoption of a set of apps,  thus constraining the user to be bound to a proprietary approach.

            However, a few free open source solutions exist. They can be installed onto a free web space, thus making users  free to choose the most appropriate apps for each task. In fact, usually, open source cloud systems  are designed to integrate with other open source apps.

            Unfortunately, most of the people are not able to set up their own self-hosted cloud space. In this webinar we will try to help people to learn how to do this. With this goal in mind we choose Nextcloud as the cornerstone for a self-hosted cloud system. Nextcloud is the most adopted open source solution for a self-hosted cloud (see here comments).

            Therefore in the following webinar you will learn how to set up a cloud system on top of your free web space. This will provide you with a truly private cloud space for  teaching materials.

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                          • Add a Linux distribution to a multiboot system

                            • Add a Linux distro to an existing GRUB multiboot system Page

                              Sometimes you have a working Windows machine and for some reason you want to have a multiboot machine adding a Linux or Android x86 distribution. All Linux installation scripts take care of this and installing Linux they give you the option to preserve the Windows installation. They install a multiboot bootloader called GRUB. GRUB is also installed if you install a Linux distro to a machine without Windows. You can follow the instructions in this webinar to install the first Linux distro from a USB pen.

                              After  that your machine is  a GRUB multiboot machine i.e. it can already boot some Linux distro and possibly some Windows or Android x86 implementation because GRUB bootloader is already in place.

                              Therefore during installation of a new Linux take care not to ask to rewrite the MBR (Master Boot Record) or say yes to things like: make the disk bootable or install GRUB since you are adding a Linux distro to a multiboot machine and some Linux bootloader (i.e. GRUB) is  already in place.  Recreating that will make the latest install bootable but (probably) the