Doug LaRue wrote: > ** 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?
Not a bad guess, I'm thinking. Lots of good ideas fail for lack of follow through, including ignoring (various elements of) support issues. Concept or feasibility demonstrations do not a solution make. :-( > > 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. >... Well, I think you are more discussing Linux than SDCS. I'm beginning to think is's not possible to discuss SDCS questions on the KPLUG list, because we all (naturally) cast a Linux mindset on everything. Regards, ..jim (all except aol,sjs and a few others, that is) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
