Re: [seul-edu] Linux inservice day

["Michael Williams" <mwilliams@haywood.k12.nc.us>]

It's dated but might give you some ideas...

http://www.haywood.k12.nc.us/oss/oss.html

I presented this last year at 2 conferences

Michael


> My father is the assistant superintendent of the local school board, so
> I have started to talk to him to see if at the next teachers convention
> if I could do a Open Source in Schools presentation, or something like
> that.
>
> Does anyone know of any resources, notes, or any wizdom that would help
> make this presentation better.
>
> It's an idea that just came into my head today, so I don't have much
> down in terms of a plan, but it would probably be something like the
> following.
>
> 1) Brief intro to Open source, and it's Philosophies.  Talk a bit about
> how the principles of Open Source are things we would like to see grow
> in the students (sharing, cooperative work, etc)
>
> 2) Bring in my system from home running LTSP, and have several boot
> disks to quickly convert a lab into a linux lab for them to try on.
>
> I would run them through Open Office, The Gimp, Mozilla, various
> educational pieces of software, etc.
>
> 3) Wrap things up with about 15-20 mins of question and answer, hand
> out CD's with the windows ports of Open Office, The Gimp, Mozilla, etc.
>
> Depending on the crowd I might spend more time on the LTSP part to show
> some of the power of a fully multi user OS.
>
> Does anyone have any wizdom as to showing something like this to
> teachers, I would love to hear it.  The presentation would not be until
> march, but I would like to get started on things now to have a good
> outline done.
>
> Thanks
> Scott Brooks


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