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Richard, Here is a link to a presentation that I gave to an educational group last summer. http://www.geocities.com/crowleye/pdfs/Linux.pdf Many instructors expressed interest. Though, there seemed to be two constraining factors. The first was a lack of dedicated classroom materials. And the second was a lack of school provided training. I started out with Red Hat but switched to a Knoppix LiveCD a few years ago. It seems to work well. Most of my students use Google Pages and Blogger to archive their work. Last year, I developed a short survey that attempted to ascertain the value that students put on the use of FOSS software in the classroom. I haven't had time to publish the results yet. But I'm sure that the results will be interesting. Best of luck, Uno > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:08:37 -0700 > From: jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: [school-discuss] Blog Entry By Richard F. Crawley > To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Getting back to business. . . . I propose > as a subject for discussion an online article > which should definitely be on-topic for > this list, as indicated by its title: > "Public Schools, Open Source Software and > Linux." Here's the URL: > > http://richardfcrawley.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/ > > To help get things rolling, I'm supplying the > two portions of the piece that were the most > eye-catching for me personally. > > On FLOSS graphics tools: > > "Open source software, while gaining ground, > is not ready to compete in the art world. > Granted there are artists able to do stunning > things with open source software. Where it > lacks is often in a well-designed UI and even > stability (Scribus, for example). Open source > will get there eventually." > > On the too-slow pace of FLOSS adoption: > > "Some of the blame also has to go to the open > source community for not undertaking an 'open > source' marketing campaign of the likes that > closed source software companies buy to push > their wares. Open source the marketing of open > source software and nothing will stop the > adoption of open source software and operating > systems. The open source community does get > things, but marketing is not one of its > strengths. Heck, we are geeks. Not slick, > flashy, geeky hucksters. I know you are all > thinking, 'except for me of course.'" > > I don't entirely agree with either of the > excerpts I quoted, but I think that both of > them should be good conversation starters-- > and, more importantly, they should encourage > you to read the entire essay and start talking. > I look forward to seeing the various responses > of the SchoolForgers. > > Joel > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Got a little couch potato? > Check out fun summer activities for kids. > http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz Gear up for Halo® 3 and get a $25 Best Buy gift card. It’s our way of saying thanks for using Windows Live™. Get it now! |