Been there - done that with the Y13 computing class... Each student was given an up to date knoppix to boot on their home PC. Most had success, apart from the student who had a 286, and one with a mac. The 30% of students without a computer of their own managed to find one somewhere to try. The hardest thing was booting the CD rather than the drive.
-----Original Message----- From: Ross Drummond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 26 July 2004 3:58 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: proposal for publicity -my liitle story My little story. A pupil at a secondary school told me than one day during class in a computer suite the teacher handed all students a KNOPPIX CD instructed them to insert it into the cdrom drive & reboot. I did not find out what purpose this was used for. I speculate that use of Linux in education may be more common than we think. Cheers Ross Drummond On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:52, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > [snip] > > > This would be a very important issue to address :-) otherwise you're > > going to have to "reeducate" the teachers, and change their lesson > > plans, and they'll be very resistant to that. > > And changing a lesson plan is quite an expensive proposition (in time, > if not direct financial cost). > > As much as I love Linux, we have to supply the software that people > need to run. In the education sector[1] we just don't have the apps; > there is a similar situation with games[2]. I will cut of my nose just > so I can be free, but I do not ask that of others. > > [1] I am excluding educational programing systems for the tertiary > sector (such as Matlab). > [2] Yes, Tux Racer is fun. Yes, UT will run on Linux (out of the box). > Yes, the entire Doom and Quake series runs under Linux. Yes, > Neverwinter Nights runs under Linux. But there are more games that > *don't* run under Linux than do.
