Re: [seul-edu] Linux inservice day

["paul" <psutton@uklinux.net>]

Hi

try www.dclug.org.uk we have been involved in this years open source day and
last years Linux day,  as the group was involved in presentations.   The
site has details of the presentations,   can't remember exactly what's on
there I need to check again. Feel free to contact the group,

Hope this helps

Paul

ps dclug is for devon and cornwall, UK.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Williams" <mwilliams@haywood.k12.nc.us>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Linux inservice day




> > 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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