[Inschool] Re: [KLUG Members] Linux in schools

[John Bridleman]

* Adam Williams (adam@morrison-ind.com) wrote:
> Most of what I've encountered with teachers is "fear" toward anything at 
> all.  They are NOT a technologically proficient demographic.  If a few 
> comforatable people can be added to the mix it seems to really help.  

Don't get me going on teachers or we will have to start another list! ;-)

> *For those of you who don't know: Sheep are real stupid, behaviorally very 
> 'routine' and tend to be easily frightened.  A goat is 4x intelligent as 
> the average dog, as well as (typically) calm and confident.  It is common 
> practice to introduce a couple of goats into a herd of sheep.  For 
> whatever reason the sheep will follow the goats and the goats' behaviour 
> sets some kind of psychological precedent for all the sheep.  This makes 
> the sheep alot easier to manage.

My neighbor uses donkeys. They also help keep the coyote's away.

> Yes.  But not in English (yet).  It is being translated.  There is quite a 
> bit of it in German and Italian.  Those people are not switching from 
> Office, they are upgrading to SO6.0.  It is important to remember that 
> LOTS (including corporate ones) of Star Office users have existed for 
> nearly a decade in Europe.

Cool. This we need.

> Right,  there is lots of edu-ware.  99% of it for Win32.
> 
> But my experience with game-ish stuff is that WINE actually works very 
> well,  so I don't think this is impossible.  WINE falls down on the real 
> 'application' software.

Accelerated Reader I would put in the real application category. BTW, I spoke with the Follett people a few months ago and they were porting their library software over to Linux. I'm not sure what progress they have made since then. Anyone else heard anything about that?

> I don't see Linux and Novell cohabitating as a significant problem.

Excellent. Most schools that I know are running Novell. The last version of Netware I really worked with was Netware4.
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org