David Thornburg shared this message at TCEA 2006 in Austin, Texas on February 9, 2006, and generously gave me permission to share it as a podcast. The official session description was: This presentation shows the capabilities and challenges of Linux as an operating system for students and explores the likely evolution of this software.
Program Length: 39 min, 43 sec
File size: 10.8 MB
Show notes for this podcast include:
- The Thornburg Center
- My text notes of David’s presentation
- My open source social bookmarks
- My Linux social bookmarks
- Linspire Linux
- Indiana State Technology website
- OpenOffice
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7 responses to “Podcast33: March of the Penguins – Linux on the Student Desktop!”
This is great…thanks for posting this online!
Miguel Guhlin
http://www.mguhlin.net/blog
Check out Download a la Mode, which shares a CD on open source tools at http://www.mguhlin.net/dl
I am amazed that there are still schools and universities that require or recommend MS Office. OpenOffice.org is such a good choice for everyone, but in particular for people and organizations where learning is promoted as the primary goal, with emphasis on openness to new ideas.
Thanks for posting this.
Thanks both to Wes for posting this (and DT for his permission!) and to Miguel for assembling Download a la Mode. We may be only pulling at taffy sometimes but at least we can chew on it too! My next step is to propagate David’s presentation throught my district (and beyond) and then setup a “March of the Penguins” tech symposium up here! Time to start thinking big…
I just spent the afternoon listening to David Thornburg. After listening to this podcast I felt like I was part of the TECA conference. One of my former students lives and loves Linux. He has tried to get me to give it a shot. After listening to David where he suggested I take an older computer and put linux on it to just play. I am going to have my student boot my old mac in Linux and I’ll give it a try.
Thanks again for making this available, I have learned so much.
Hey Wes,
Great Podcast. Bernie D. gave me this link, and I have heard Dave T. speak before at CUE out here in California. I am interested in his words about Linux. Thanks for the resources. I just subscribed to your RSS feeds.
Matt Moore
thanks for sharing the podcast, it was great. 🙂