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Getting students to use free software for their projects may be a way to wean them from the 'default' method: using pirated version of $$$ software. ===== Red Hat High teaches free software By Jake Edge August 7, 2007 "Get 'em while they're young" should be the motto of Red Hat High (RHH), a summer camp program, funded by Red Hat, to introduce junior high school students to free software tools. Now in its second year, RHH has a curriculum designed to get students using creative tools to produce tangible works during the week-long camp. In addition to teaching 50 eighth and ninth grade students about free software, the project seeks to expand its reach, not by increasing its enrollment, but by exporting the concept to other venues. [...] The project is a worthy one, even if it never escapes beyond the Raleigh-Durham area. Even 50 students at a time, getting the word out about free software is a good thing. If the project's larger goals can be realized – spreading this knowledge far and wide – it can make a huge difference. Getting young folks hooked on expensive proprietary software may be good for the bottom line at Adobe or Microsoft, but it is not so good for the wallets of schools and parents. Free software is able to replace an awful lot of proprietary packages, with no licensing hassles, so that students can run it anywhere they can find an open computer. That message has not, yet, been widely heard, but RHH hopes to change that. ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my delicious links: (http://del.icio.us/SohKamYung) my simpy links: (http://www.simpy.com/user/kysoh/links) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
