[nflug] Edubuntu

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

When we last left our adventurers...

> A. the big problem with the thin client stuff is that
> the setup for Win2k, 2k3 server allowing for thin
> client is pretty expensive...roundabout $100 per
> connection.
>
> B. Depending on the level of the school, you may want
> to check out something called moodle (www.moodle.org)
> as a web based classroom management system.  I'm using
> it now at ITT and it is pretty boss.  Web based,
> everything (homeworks, grades, lessons, quizzes, chat,
> forum, etc) can be done through the web client.  Makes
> classroom organization a snap, and grading and
> tracking large numbers of students gets easier.
>
> The kids might not care, but the teachers may love
> it..
>
> --- Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com>
> wrote:
>
>> instead of dual-booting your machines have you
>> thought about using
>> thin-clients instead? when you need to run windows
>> apps you can connect
>> to a win2k server via rdesktop. this might make you
>> administrative life
>> much easier.
>>
>> there is a fairly large segment of people running
>> ubuntu on sun's sunray
>> thin-client system. the sunray software is free
>> unless you want support
>> and you can pickup the sunray thin-clients on ebay
>> starting a $5.00.
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuOnSunRay
>>
>> eric wrote:
>>> Just some FYI, as some of you may know or have
>> figured out ;) I work at
>>> school as a systems administrator and have been
>> trying to integrate
>>> linux into our classrooms because well ..to put it
>> generically it's
>>> simply feasible on many levels.
>>> For the past month I have been listening to some
>> talk about Ubuntu from
>>> this list, so I decided to check it out and saw
>> that Ubuntu also has a
>>> distro called Edubuntu ...finally thrilled ...that
>> a community did all
>>> the work at putting together an Educational
>> packaged GNU/Linux nice!
>>> This Summer I am testing a dual boot with the
>> default as Edubuntu in our
>>> Library the other boot M$.
>>> So far I have had to do simple things like
>> installing flash and java to
>>> the browser and create an easy to get to login for
>> Samba shares on our
>>> network ...how silly... Linux samba clients
>> connecting to Linux Samba
>>> servers using Openoffice to open and save
>> everything as word, excel and
>>> powerpoint ...it brings a tear to only one eye.
>>> The distro comes with so much educational sofware
>> that it might calm the
>>> need for expensive software that may or may not
>> work with wine.  I have
>>> been encouraging our teachers to look for online
>> educational software
>>> that simply uses a browser, and have asked them to
>> let me review the
>>> site to make sure it's not using ASP and locked
>> into IE.
>>>
>>> If I could only find K-12 biology software I think
>> we'd be set.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the Ubuntu talk.

Um, I think things got a little off topic on this. But there is TONS of 
free software out there for educational purpose. I don't know exactly what 
would apply to K-12 though. But looking through Portage (Gentoo) there is 
quite a bit of neat looking stuff:

http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sci-biology
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sci-chemistry

I'm sure that all of these packages (and probably more) are available for 
(U|Edu)buntu. Me personally? I like space. Stellarium and Celestia are a 
couple of programs I use that I think would also appeal to children and 
maybe spark their intrest in the cosmos:

http://www.stellarium.org/
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Again, these are the only programs that I have experience with. I'm sure 
that there are more like it for the field of Biology.

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>> --
>> Darin Perusich
>> Unix Systems Administrator
>> Cognigen Corporation
>> 395 Youngs Rd.
>> Williamsville, NY 14221
>> darinper at cognigencorp.com
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