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K12-Linux Projecthttp://plug.northwest.com/k12.htm
K12Linux Project:
Several members of the Portland Linux Unix Group have volunteered to assist local schools in the Portland OR Metro area in installing and configuring computers with the Linux operating system and related free software.
The project is our way of saying thanks to Riverdale School. The school is very generous in providing a facility for a monthly Linux Clinic. Riverdale also proves to be a great example of how schools can cost effectively solve problems when entering the Internet.
More information can be found at The Linux Educational Needs Posting Pages.
Communicate with us:
Enough PLUG members have volunteered for us to seriously get started. However, we are always looking for more volunteers and interested parties to join us!
To join the mailing list, send e-mail to majordomo@riverdale.k12.or.us with the message "subscribe k12linux". You will then receive a welcome message describing how to use the mailing list.
You can help:
If you would like to volunteer your time and skills, please send e-mail to David W. Palmer dwpalmer@teleport.com with the following information:
- How can you help best?
- What would you like to do?
- What experience do you have?
- What time commitment can you make to the project?
This information helps us establish reasonable expectations of what we can provide. Of course, if you are on the mailing list, you can jump in at any time! As with Linux, our greatest strength is the diversity of people we bring together for the project.
David W. Palmer
dwpalmer@teleport.com
For More Information:
- How can you help best?
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K12-Linux Projecthttp://plug.northwest.com/k12.htm
K12Linux Project:
Several members of the Portland Linux Unix Group have volunteered to assist local schools in the Portland OR Metro area in installing and configuring computers with the Linux operating system and related free software.
The project is our way of saying thanks to Riverdale School. The school is very generous in providing a facility for a monthly Linux Clinic. Riverdale also proves to be a great example of how schools can cost effectively solve problems when entering the Internet.
More information can be found at The Linux Educational Needs Posting Pages.
Communicate with us:
Enough PLUG members have volunteered for us to seriously get started. However, we are always looking for more volunteers and interested parties to join us!
To join the mailing list, send e-mail to majordomo@riverdale.k12.or.us with the message "subscribe k12linux". You will then receive a welcome message describing how to use the mailing list.
You can help:
If you would like to volunteer your time and skills, please send e-mail to David W. Palmer dwpalmer@teleport.com with the following information:
- How can you help best?
- What would you like to do?
- What experience do you have?
- What time commitment can you make to the project?
This information helps us establish reasonable expectations of what we can provide. Of course, if you are on the mailing list, you can jump in at any time! As with Linux, our greatest strength is the diversity of people we bring together for the project.
David W. Palmer
dwpalmer@teleport.com
For More Information:
- How can you help best?
-
K12-Linux Projecthttp://plug.northwest.com/k12.htm
K12Linux Project:
Several members of the Portland Linux Unix Group have volunteered to assist local schools in the Portland OR Metro area in installing and configuring computers with the Linux operating system and related free software.
The project is our way of saying thanks to Riverdale School. The school is very generous in providing a facility for a monthly Linux Clinic. Riverdale also proves to be a great example of how schools can cost effectively solve problems when entering the Internet.
More information can be found at The Linux Educational Needs Posting Pages.
Communicate with us:
Enough PLUG members have volunteered for us to seriously get started. However, we are always looking for more volunteers and interested parties to join us!
To join the mailing list, send e-mail to majordomo@riverdale.k12.or.us with the message "subscribe k12linux". You will then receive a welcome message describing how to use the mailing list.
You can help:
If you would like to volunteer your time and skills, please send e-mail to David W. Palmer dwpalmer@teleport.com with the following information:
- How can you help best?
- What would you like to do?
- What experience do you have?
- What time commitment can you make to the project?
This information helps us establish reasonable expectations of what we can provide. Of course, if you are on the mailing list, you can jump in at any time! As with Linux, our greatest strength is the diversity of people we bring together for the project.
David W. Palmer
dwpalmer@teleport.com
For More Information:
- How can you help best?
-
K12-Linux Projecthttp://plug.northwest.com/k12.htm
K12Linux Project:
Several members of the Portland Linux Unix Group have volunteered to assist local schools in the Portland OR Metro area in installing and configuring computers with the Linux operating system and related free software.
The project is our way of saying thanks to Riverdale School. The school is very generous in providing a facility for a monthly Linux Clinic. Riverdale also proves to be a great example of how schools can cost effectively solve problems when entering the Internet.
More information can be found at The Linux Educational Needs Posting Pages.
Communicate with us:
Enough PLUG members have volunteered for us to seriously get started. However, we are always looking for more volunteers and interested parties to join us!
To join the mailing list, send e-mail to majordomo@riverdale.k12.or.us with the message "subscribe k12linux". You will then receive a welcome message describing how to use the mailing list.
You can help:
If you would like to volunteer your time and skills, please send e-mail to David W. Palmer dwpalmer@teleport.com with the following information:
- How can you help best?
- What would you like to do?
- What experience do you have?
- What time commitment can you make to the project?
This information helps us establish reasonable expectations of what we can provide. Of course, if you are on the mailing list, you can jump in at any time! As with Linux, our greatest strength is the diversity of people we bring together for the project.
David W. Palmer
dwpalmer@teleport.com
For More Information:
- How can you help best?
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Linux in SchoolsResources:
The K12-Linux project, by PLUG (Portland Linux Users' Group) hosted at: http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/.
k12linux.org proper.
There's the k12-linux mailing list here.
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Linux in SchoolsResources:
The K12-Linux project, by PLUG (Portland Linux Users' Group) hosted at: http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/.
k12linux.org proper.
There's the k12-linux mailing list here.
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Linux in schools project underway in Portland, OR
Our local LUG (PLUG) has volunteers helping any school set up Linux that wants to do so. A PLUG for Education, they call it.
The home page for the K12 Linux in Schools Project is http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux
Check it out, drop em a line.. -
Doing the same with LinuxAs I'm sure everyone knows, you can do the same with Linux. (OpenClassroom serves to make this easier with a education-minded Linux distribution)
Right now there's something like this being done at the Corbett school in Tucson Arizona. The link won't show you much other than some drawing by the students, but there's a short description in an email. It's a work in progress, done mostly by volunteers.
Really, it all comes down to making a bunch of cheap X terminals and some application servers. The X terminals can be much cheaper than $400 (refurbished 486's work well enough). Though they are hard to maintain, it's even possible with donated equipment (which, while plentiful for schools, tends to be otherwise useless). There has been a lot of discussion about this on the SEUL-edu mailing list (interested people are invited to join).
Maintenance issues as a whole are very important in schools, with public labs, occasionally malicious users, and a lack of knowlegable admins. The lack of security on Windows and Macs make them totally inappropriate for classroom use, but somehow most schools don't seem to appreciate this. As a result, school computers tend to be finicky and inflexible, and take up as much time doing dumb technical stuff as they do helping children learn.
The alternative is the laptop schools, which is to me a Very Bad Idea. But at least the computers trully are personal -- and if the kid messes up their computer, they've messed up their computer. But there's so many minuses to laptops...
Of course the Riverdale school has been using Linux for a long time on the server side, but recently there's been a lot more activity on the client side as well. I think Linux can do most of what most schools want to do right now, which doesn't make it perfect at all, but perfection is not a serious option to many schools -- or even half-way decent (I'm sorry to say).
Learnux is a Canadian volunteer effort to recycle old computers into useful Linux computers.