Banner for Free Educational Day 2024
Free software in National Education is not reserved for a few specialized uses, shows a message thread on Mastodon [désolé, leur intégration dans le CMS de ce site n’est pas très au point], by the account Le Libre Educatif. It summarizes “what is freely offered today to National Education teachers”.
Free software “instantiated and hosted by us”
1. Videoconferencing with Virtual Class
2. Store and share your files on Nuage (a presentation)
3. Publish and share your videos on Tube and Pod (a presentation)
4. Publish and edit collaboratively on CodiMD (presentation)
5. Store and share your code on the Forge (whose full name is “the forge of educational digital commons” – a presentation)
6. Create and share educational paths on Éléa (currently being deployed in academies)
7. Create and share STEM activities on Capytale
8. Communicate and animate your community on Tchap (DINUM) (see this article on the launch of Tchap.
Le Libre Educatif reminds that “behind all these services, there is free software (instantiated and hosted by us):
1. Virtual Classroom -> BigBlueButton
2. Cloud -> Nextcloud
3. Tube -> PeerTube, Pod -> Esup-Pod
4. CodiMD
5. La Forge -> GitLab
6. Éléa -> Moodle
7. Capytale -> Jupyter, Scratch, GeoGebra…
8. Chap -> Matrix»
“Classe Virtuelle, Nexcloud, PeerTube, Pod, CodiMD are part of the shared services of @apps (single authentication, national scale).” General tutorial on Apps: Dane Guyane
Alternatives to Gafam & co
“These services offer sovereign and secure alternatives to those of Big Tech:
1. BigBlueButton -> Zoom & co
2. Nexcloud -> Google Drive
3. PeerTube, Pod -> YouTube
4. CodiMD -> Google Docs
5. GitLab -> GitHub
6. Moodle -> Google Classroom, Teams
7. Capytale -> Collaboratory
8. Matrix -> WhatsApp, Slack»
On the program for Free Educational Day
“Except for Tchap operated by DINUM, these services are part of the support for the development of digital commons of the Digital Strategy for Education 2023-2027. Digital commons for education which will meet soon for the 3rd edition of the Free Educational Day #JDLE2024 on March 29 in Créteil.”
The program for this new edition is rich, with for example:
– a conference by social science researcher Valérie Peugeot (president of the late Vecam, whose archives and publications are there) on “The digital commons, a lever for linking global and local public action”,
– a round table “digital, solution or problem facing the climate emergency”, by Corinne Vercher-Chaptal and Tristan Nitot,
– another on “What public policies for digital commons?”, with Emma Ghariani (project director at DINUM) and Jean Cattan (general secretary of the National Digital Council), etc.
Read also
Administration: “generalize the use of free software” on a daily basis – January 23, 2024
Free and open source express: Cyber Resilience Act, Free educational, remunerating developers, women in Wikipedia – April 30, 2023
National education: 12 free digital projects – April 3, 2022
Free and common software in education: presenting alternatives to GAFAM – November 26, 2020