Re: [seul-edu] Re: curriculum - Linux Education

[Emilio Gerardo Milian <egmilian@gene.COM>]

I have started a web page for the linux students at the South San Francisco Adult
school , (home users, non-it users)
http://www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/ssfusd/as/linux/linux1.html
http://www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/ssfusd/as/linux/advanced.html
You are welcome to visit.
Emilio

Rasjid Wilcox wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:03, Ms.G wrote:
> > Mr. Chen and others on this thread:
> >
> > Beware of a mistake often seen in community-technology efforts: aiming
> > right over the targeted learners' heads!
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
> > Of Alan Chen
> > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:01 PM
> > To: seul-edu@seul.org
> > Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Re: curriculum Re: [ma-linux] Linux Education
> >
> >
> > Wow, talk about timely discussion.  Today I was asked if I could look
> > into a curriculum for teaching a Introduction to Linux class. Do any of
> > your students take LPI exams? If so, how much class time is generally
> > involved in getting the students to pass the LPI Level 1 exam? (I might
> > be teaching high-school students in an after school program)
> >
> > -- alan
>
> I have also recently been asked to look into finding or organising a
> beginners or introductory course to Linux.  This would not be aimed to IT
> professionals, but at your average home user or small business operator who
> doesn't like Microsofts new licensing arrangements and has heard of Linux and
> would like to know more but doesn't know where to start.
>
> This discussion has been quite involved, with a number of things to follow
> up.  I'm also unclear what has been going on off list.
>
> Perhaps a summary post of the relevant sources of information would not go
> astray?
>
> * A curriculum by Alan was posted by Karl, 16 November.
> * Tom Miller has a basic users course.  Unclear if this is publicly available.
> * Teemu has created some courses, and would consider releasing them, possibly
> under the OpenContent License (http://opencontent.org/) or GPL.
> * John has a short history of Unix at
> http://www.interdepend.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/LinuxOpenLecturePool
> * Karl is hoping to start a repository of curriculums.
> * Karl mentions http://www.linuxuniversity.org
> * Ms G give a link to Dr Phil Carinhas curriculum, released under the GPL.
> http://www.fortuitous.com/reply.php?name=manuals.html
>
> There may be other information I have missed.
>
> My question is what is the status with the courses mentioned by Tom Miller
> and Teemu?
>
> And are there any other links that people would like to suggest?
>
> Rasjid.