** Reply to message from Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:29:47 -0700
> We also set up an > LTSP lab at Hickman elementary school but none of the teachers aside > from our sponsor there were interested in using it and as soon as he > left so did the lab. Was there any teacher training or any curriculum advising program in place or just a "we built it, you figure out how to use it" kind of thing? I'm also thinking that if the $$$ in savings can be shown and associated with how many teaching jobs that might save, we just might get some interest. Heck I'm even thinking of sending another email to the governator to see if there isn't anybody up there trying to push some software and hardware savings down the chain to the States school system. It is going on in Indiana already. If there is nothing "behind" the project to help educators use the system, then it should be expected to fail. If they have only the interest to teach say Microsoft Word and have no other use for such a lab, it will fail. But will they not understand the money for the Windows OS licenses, the MS Office licenses, and the added hardware to run those will equate to a good percentage of one teachers annual salary? Maybe not but when times are tough, new ideas might become acceptable. Hey, do you think all the attention being put on hybrid cars and solar electricity is because it is cool stuff do you? It has everything to do with $3+/gal fuel costs and high electricity and environment impact costs. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
