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Teaching Teachers About Linux.
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| The price of the system with all this software ballooned to about $2500.00.
| The young woman was a bit shocked by this, but said she needed to have all
| this on her system. After she was given this final price, she thanked the
| salesman and told him she would think it over.
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http://www.oneclicklinux.com/2008/12/teaching-teachers-about-linux.html
Recent:
Interviews with teachers about OLPC benefits
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| I did some short interviews with some of the teachers at one of the
| Australian trial sites talking about how they are using the XOs in the
| classroom and some of the benefits the students are experiencing. Very cool
| stuff! Many thanks to Warwick and Deirdre for their time and enthusiasm!
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http://pipka.org/blog/2008/12/06/interviews-with-teachers-about-olpc-benefits/
Smut pop-up teacher case finally resolved with misdemeanor plea
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| The case stems from an incident in 2004 when a PC in Amero's class, later
| found to be infected with smut-serving malware, displayed pornographic images
| to her seventh-grade students. The incident at Kelly Middle School in
| Norwich, Connecticut in October 2004 led to charges against the then pregnant
| substitute teacher.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/24/pop_up_spyware_case_resolved/
Related:
Schools across Japan may switch to Linux
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| Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported late last week that the
| Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce
| the open-source operating system Linux for use within classrooms
| across the country in the near future.
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http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=000112
Primary school goes Ubuntu
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| I prepared 5 CDs and installed 14 PCs in less than two hours,
| including account setup and Firefox preparation (start page to a
| kids friendly site, Adblock).
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http://www.gadgetguy.de/2007/03/12/primary-school-goes-ubuntu/
District to save money by switching computers to Linux
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| Hyland said the district hopes to get all of its computers
| running Linux exclusively by 2010. By that time, administrators
| should have identified new Linux programs for Bexley students,
| including kindergartners. Hyland said she wants to get
| kindergartners started with a program that teaches typing so
| that Bexley students are familiar with technology early on.
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http://www.thisweeknews.com/?sec=home&story=sites/thisweeknews/022207/Bexley/News/022207-News-310108.html
Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district
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| By this summer, all 5,000 students and 250 teachers will be working
| off of a Linux-based thin client running OpenOffice.org, and the
| majority of the district's servers will be running Novell SUSE
| Linux Enterprise Server.
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http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.html
Reason Why Schools Should Adopt Linux
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| Can I Import My Previous Work Into Linux? Consider this: you have
| document after document tied up into formats, such as Outlook, MS
| Publisher and so on. Now, with Outlook, I "believe" the data can bee
| xported without too much trouble. But last time I checked, your
| Publisher files were stuck as is, period. So it's fair to say
| that challenges like this can indeed, seem like a deal breaker
| for some users. I mean come on, this is not a solution and the
| fact that Publisher is so commonly used in the Windows world is
| certainly not helping anyone. This issue would seem trivial to
| most of us, but to those who just installed Linux, it can prove
| to be frustrating.
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http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7802
Tapping a world of schoolroom innovation
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| SchoolTool began development in 2000 and is funded by Mark Shuttleworth,
| of the South African-based Shuttleworth Foundation, creator of the
| free Ubuntu operating system.
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http://www.pbn.com/stories/24545.html
Dell releases low-cost Linux desktops...in China
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| Dell, for example, has sold tens of thousands of Linux-based PCs
| to elementary schools in China, running Sun Wah Linux -- a
| Chinese distribution of Linux based on Debian.
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/linux/2007/0326linux2.html
Stretching the Education Dollar With Linux
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| The fact that open source solutions offer a wider range of choices
| and options than their proprietary counterparts make them truly
| useful alternatives to closed solutions, Henson says, especially
| for administrative tasks. "[W]ith open source solutions,
| organizations can freely customize the software to their
| specific requirements. This is particularly important when
| organizations wish to integrate with their existing software
| -- such as student and employee management systems. Developing
| such APIs is often extremely costly and time-consuming to
| facilitate with proprietary software vendors."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56656.html
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