On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Veronica Brandt wrote: > Also thinking about the ways in which Linux could be deployed in the area > of homeschooling: locally caching online books, tutorials and other > informative webpages to save on internet time and keep kids on track; > teaching programming skills; each child customising their own account > without effecting others; using older computers - saving money ----- any > more ideas?
These are all good ones. The offline browsing has already been mentioned (wwwoffle) and I also recommend that. On the other points, that's a matter for someone who is interested and appropriately skilled to do. ComputerBank has interests in some of the same directions (using older hardware and such) but without any particular educational focus (although a lot of the projects we do would probably be benefitting disadvantaged youth). If you want more info on ComputerBank NSW, check out http://www.cbnsw.org.au/. There's mailing lists you can join for discussion of appropriate issues. If you're particularly keen to get involved in making old computers worthwhile, I suggest cb-technical (not a lot of us on there). Disclaimer: I'm involved with CBNSW as a volunteer build-developer, so I'm after all the help I can get. <g> > A lot of the homeschoolers I know are idealists, I'm sure they'd warm to > Linux if they had the chance. Well, warm them up. If they're already on the Internet, start a mailing list (I can help with that if you need it) and start discussing what can be done. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
