RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: [Nolug] Educators! (fwd)

["Spurling, Shannon " <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

 Seams like lots of people have an opinion on every thing. :-)
Here's an interesting resource you may want to check for what you are asking
about. It's a user group/mailing list. It's related to the SEUL project, but
it covers a broad range of distro's. you can find it for looking for Linux
in Education. or go to the following URL http://www.seul.org/edu/. There are
educators from every internet connected country in the world (practicly),
and they can give you a first hand account of what they run into about
teaching linux to kids that young.
Hope this helps

Shannon

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From: Jennifer Dozar
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Sent: 7/22/01 10:05 PM
Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: [Nolug] Educators! (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:03:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jennifer Dozar <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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Subject: Re: [Nolug] Educators!

I am mostly looking for your hrm. views of having linux in an
educational
environment. I have had some children come into our Community Lab we
run,
which opperates Debian, and they seemed very interested. (even tho they
were 4th graders) We have some other kids who come in, i think a couple
are about 11/12 and another one that is 15.  
The only negative feedback i got from the teacher that came (with her
4th
graders) was about the site she wanted the kids to look at. which was,
of
course, for more proprietary software operators, example: windows 98 and
above, Shockwave, etc.  So only SOME of the games were working. plus if
we
had known ahead of time, we could have updated the flash program. 

I have found many interesting Open Source Software for teachers. So i
hope
if we can get this into operation, the change over to Linux would be
much
smoother and expected.  more along, the acceptance to linux would be
smoother. So,I am looking for views and oppinions On trying to get Linux
into a more Educational enviornment, and how you might suggest going
about
proposing such ideas to schoolboards or Deans, etc. 




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On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Dave Prentice wrote:

> Jennifer,
>     I have opinions on any topic you can think of. What are you
looking for?
> Dave Prentice
> EMAIL:PROTECTED
> http://www.originsresource.org
> http://www.prenticenet.com/home/dprentice

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