Re: [seul-edu] Linux in schools

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, gringey@sendit.sendit.nodak.edu wrote:

> Does Linux have a 
> program that is similiar?  I need a keyboarding program
> appropriate 
> for 6-8 graders and any other software that is available that
> would 
> be good for middle school use. We will be using StarOffice5.2.
> 
There are two ways to go about running student systems here. 
You can set up the systems to automatically mount a filesystem
on a server (or servers) for home directories, or even to boot
up and load their entire OS from the server.  That would make
all the data and configurations server-resident, with the actual
computing going on locally.

Alternatively, you can set up the student systems to do nothing
but display programs running on the servers.  That basically
makes the student systems into graphical terminals.  This is a
good way to go if the student systems are old or low-powered. 
For advice on doing this, the three links Ray has mentioned a
few times in the past days are good sources.

As for a keyboarding program, there are a few.  TuxTyping
<http://www.geekcomix.com/dm/tuxtype/> is the most graphical,
but may not be just what you're looking for.  There's also
Griffin <http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~igabri1/griffin/>, gtyping
<http://gtyping.kldp.org/>, typist
<http://structio.sourceforge.net/typist/>, XLetters
<http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/#prog_xletters>,
and JTypist <http://www.ocston.org/~simonb/typist/>.

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