Re: [school-discuss] Feedback from Georgia Educational Technology Conference and a thought

[Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx>]

This is a very good point/idea.
I just did a 1.5 hour talk at a local technical school about Foss and how
it fit into the school system. One big question that I was asked a few
times was what about coerce material that they could teach or that could
aid them.

Also I volunteer for a group that takes old computers and make them
available to low income families. This is an existing project so we are
trying to get some of the old ways removed and new ways put in. There is
one guy up till now doing it in 2 centers. The computer comes with 40
hours of training which is a MS curriculum. That fine but the systems
going out will be 50% Linux and all will have OpenOffice and not MS
Office. As a result the curriculum is not the most appropriate. If there
was curriculum on Gnome and OpenOffice that would be very helpful.


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> makes me think...
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> All these neat apps... Blender, OpenFx ... it'd be great to get each
> app's community on board in writing lessons/curricula for digital media
> - screenshot workflow how-to's...
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> /lee
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> Yishay Mor <yishaym@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 5. and a manual on wikibooks to
> bind them all together
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> On 23/11/06, Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Hey Daniel,
> sounds like you had a good showing at your conference. Good for you.
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>> If a brand new school/district came to us and asked
>> for a complete, turnkey Open Source solution (assuming we got them a
>> Linux consultant to integrate everything), what would we recommend?
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> K, right off the top of my head I would suggest that we start by
> breaking things down to catagoriys.
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> So to start and please add in as I am sure I will miss somethings:
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> 1:  Infrastructure
> a: Back office app servers
> b: Network support services (DHCP, Wins, DNS)
> c: Routers and or traffic controls
> d: system monitoring and reporting
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> 2: Security systems
> a: Intrustion detections systems
> b: VPN and remote access
> c: Inter branch communication and bridging
> d: content filtering and reporting/alerting
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> 3: Administration
> a: Class room management
> b: Student management
> c: Course management
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> 4: Desktop environment
> a: Desktop operating environment
> b: Desktop management and security
> c: Course required programs
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> Anyways I figured I would get my initial thought on what a brand new
> school dev would need. Let get other idea on this list and then we can
> start plugging in the software we need. If we don't know of a piece of
> software we can at least start to search for it.
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> Thanks
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> Rich
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>> Best regards,
>> Daniel
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