Re: [seul-edu] Announcing the Tux Typing 0.9 Release

["Fyoozen" <peharp@ix.netcom.com>]

Thank you, Gentlemen! I believe that Linux has a great future in education
and Government. The problem is getting the vendors to believe that. The
largest software purchaser in the world is the US Government. Just think of
what we could do if the DoEd was able to keep the same and used Linux? Talk
about quality education and decent pay for educators! Also, I think Linux
causes the students to think, experiment, and create. It's roots encourage
it. Once students take the responsibility to learn, we become educators, not
social workers, and the kids win out.


----- Original Message -----
From: Samuel Hart <criswell@geekcomix.com>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Announcing the Tux Typing 0.9 Release


> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, you wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:55:58PM -0400, Phillip Harp wrote:
> > > Since my paper is basically a "Why Linux in Education?" paper, as well
as a
> > > "Here's how you do it!", I was pointed here by Karl and Roger. I have
been
> > > soaking up ideas and topics to add to the final outline. Which should
be
> >
> > Some links to look at:
> >
> > http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/152/
> > http://www.seul.org/docs/whylinux.html
>
> You may also want to check out what the OSEF.org guys have done at Corbett
> elementary school (in case you don't already know about it):
> http://www.osef.org/articles_and_letters/azstar/whizkids.html
> http://www.corbettschool.org
>
> They've been using Tux Typing for a year now, and recently gave me a tour
of
> their facilities there. It was all very impressive, and really shows that
Linux
> can be successfully used in an educational setting (with appropriate
> administrative support, of course ;-)
>
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