Edubuntu

Edubuntu
Objectives
Sources of science in Edubuntu

1. EDUBUNTU Prepared by Sandhya K Kumar Assistant professor Physical science MSc , MEd,NET

2. Edubuntu Edubuntu , previously known as  Ubuntu Education Edition , was an official derivative of the  Ubuntu operating system  designed for use in  classrooms  inside  schools ,  homes  and  communities . Edubuntu was developed in collaboration with teachers and technologists in several countries. Edubuntu is built on top of the Ubuntu base, includes several education-specific applications, and is aimed at users aged 6 to 18.

3. Objectives It was designed for easy installation and ongoing system maintenance. The primary goal of Edubuntu was to enable an educator with limited technical knowledge and skills to set up a computer lab or an on-line learning environment in an hour or less and then effectively administer that environment It also aimed to allow low income environments to maximize utilisation of their available (older) equipment..

4. The principal design goals of Edubuntu were centralized management of configuration, users and processes, together with facilities for working collaboratively in a classroom setting. Equally important was the gathering together of the best available free software and digital materials for education. According to a statement of goals on the official Edubuntu website: "Our aim is to put together a system that contains all the best free software available in education and make it easy to install and maintain.

5. Sources of science in Edubuntu PhET is a suite of research-based interactive computer simulations for teaching and learning physics, chemistry, biology, math’s and other sciences. Celestia  is a 3D astronomy software program created by Chris Laurel. The program allows users to virtually travel through a computer generated universe. Bioperl  is an open source bioinformatics. Emboss is the package developed for molecularbiology and bioinfomatics .

6. Muscle A program for multiple alignment of protein sequences. Phylip A package of programs of inferring phylogenies. Tree view X is an open source program to display phylogenetic trees on Linux, and windows platforms. Clustalw This program performs an alignment of multiple nucleotide or amino acid sequences.

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