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Do District IT Staff Spout FUD at Macs, Linux, or BYOT Proposals?
School district IT staff can be very closed-minded when it comes to alternative computing platforms. To be fair, however, as HUMAN BEINGS we can all be closed-minded when someone suggests changing fundamental aspects of our daily lives or worldview. photo credit: Amy Mud Pie I frequently visit with teachers who say things like the following:…
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Educational vendors supporting Linux?
Does anyone know of educational vendors who are supporting Linux-based 1:1 laptop initiatives for schools? This was a question I posted today as a comment to Zachary Saale‘s post, “Linux Is The Future! Or Not?” You raise good points, Zachary. The low comfort level of many (if not most) college professors with technology is a…
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Tech hungry schools should look to Linux
The February 26, 2006 article in the Orlando Sentinel, “At schools, not all computers are equal,” laments low levels of educational technology funding, especially for schools “in the middle:” not low income and federally funded but not high income with wealthy PTA budgets either. These introductory paragraphs will give you a flavor of the article’s…
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Podcast33: March of the Penguins – Linux on the Student Desktop!
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…
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March of the Penguins: Linux on the Student Desktop
This was a presentation this morning at TCEA 2006 by David Thornburg. David gave me permission to share the audio recording I made of the session later as a podcast. I’ll be posting that here soon (probably next week.) Presenting with the Linspire Linux operating system today Questions: – how many of you are using…
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Embrace Linux
In Tim Wilson’s recent skypecast interview with Paul Nelson of Riverdale High School in Portland, Oregon, Paul explains no one should expect a single operating system to meet all needs and functional requirements. Paul is the school technology director and co-creator of the K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project. Paul’s story and perspective on operating systems…
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New DVR Linux project
After helping a friend setup a new Dell PC at his home this weekend, I am the proud owner of a gifted 1 GHz Gateway PentiumIII computer. As soon as I confirmed all needed files were off the machine today, I installed Ubuntu Linux and reformatted the drive– bye-bye WindowsXP forever on this box! My…
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Linux help
Out of necessity rather than pure choice I am learning Linux terminal commands– for my own reference as well as potential benefit for others, I have started a new blog page titled Linux Help. I will be adding to this page in the weeks and months to come as I learn more….. Don’t fret yourself…
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Linux and WordPress
I have descended to a new depth (or height I guess, depending on your perspective) of geekdom this weekend, and I give all the credit to my friend Miguel Guhlin! I both want and need to setup an intel-based computer (a new fast Dell actually) at work with the Linux operating system, and everything required…