Re: [school-discuss] Philosophy: Teachers with Admin Privileges or Not

[Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Better and better.  For middle and high school students with standalone 
desktops, absolutely!  We actually had a 5th grader last year who would 
have benefited from this approach as well, he went home and set up his 
own K12LTSP testbed in his basement after he saw what we did in his 
classroom.

We gotta have a big hard drive to have that many images for all the 
students, tho', and we probably need to be able to reset a student's 
image if it becomes totally messed up, but what a great concept to 
empower both teachers and students (and hopefully minimize admin's angst).

How about it all you admins out there, is this still a nightmare 
scenario for you folks?  I have to think with all the flexibility we 
have with Linux, that there is a way to make both sides happy.

Daniel


David M. Bucknell wrote:
> Well, I read through this thread and I like it.  One more thought, 
> though, the obvious next thought: what about the students' access and 
> privileges?  If it were me, then I'd be trying to give them some space 
> ("their space") to have autonomy.
>
> David
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>     Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:13:51 -0400
>     From: Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>  Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Philosophy: Teachers with Admin 
> Privileges or Not
>       To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> > Justin wrote:
> > > With K12LTSP growing in popularity, it might even make sense in  some 
> > > situations for a teacher to maintain a small collection of  images on 
> > > the server.  Could this lead to a possible change in what  the 
> > > administrator & teacher
> > > roles are in IT?
> >
> > Excellent Justin!  I like the idea of multiple copies of the OS on the
> > classroom server, perhaps one locked down that can always be recalled
> > so basic functionality is always available, and others specialized and
> > customizable by teachers in particular areas like music (a Musix
> > image), math, etc.
> >
> > Marilyn (and other teachers), how would that be for you, to have one
> > image locked down you knew you could always count on for basic needs,
> > but still have the freedom to do whatever you wanted with the other
> > images?
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Howard
> > President and CEO
> > Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
>
>
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Daniel Howard
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Georgia Open Source Education Foundation