[nflug] Edubuntu

[Richard Hubbard]

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.
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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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