Sigmundvoid

The folks at Ubuntu have released a Desktop course, one for students and one document for instructors which contains answers to questions asked in the students document.

I glanced through the students document, it contains 10 lessons which aim to achieve
the following:

• Understand the concepts of open source and how they tie in with Ubuntu
• See the benefits and differences in using Ubuntu as an Operating system
• Customize the look and feel of the Ubuntu desktop
• Navigate through the file system and search for files
• Connect to and use the Internet
• Perform basic word-processing and spreadsheet functions using OpenOffice.org
• Install and play games
• Add, remove and update applications using different package managers
• View, draw, manipulate and scan images
• Play, edit and organize music and video files
• Seek help on Ubuntu from free and commercial sources
• Create partitions and dual-boot options

The authors say that its still a work in progress, but so far it seems to explain everything clearly, yet what I would like to see is parallels drawn from Windows,
since its easier to learn something new when you are basing it off something you
already know, a holistic learning approach, saying that though,  there are a few references to Vista.

Maybe the document can fork into specializing, for artists, for programmers etc,
each fork is a how-to which is Ubuntu centric on how the artist, programmer moved
from the previous platform to Ubuntu, explaining the replacement applications they
used to achieve their transition.

It will be interesting to see how this project evolves!