Re: [seul-edu] Announcing the Tux Typing 0.9 Release

[Samuel Hart <criswell@geekcomix.com>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, you wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:55:58PM -0400, Phillip Harp wrote:
> > Since my paper is basically a "Why Linux in Education?" paper, as well as a
> > "Here's how you do it!", I was pointed here by Karl and Roger. I have been
> > soaking up ideas and topics to add to the final outline. Which should be
> 
> Some links to look at:
> 
> http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/152/
> http://www.seul.org/docs/whylinux.html

You may also want to check out what the OSEF.org guys have done at Corbett
elementary school (in case you don't already know about it):
http://www.osef.org/articles_and_letters/azstar/whizkids.html
http://www.corbettschool.org

They've been using Tux Typing for a year now, and recently gave me a tour of
their facilities there. It was all very impressive, and really shows that Linux
can be successfully used in an educational setting (with appropriate
administrative support, of course ;-)

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