[K12OSN] Defending education usage for k12ltsp

[rmcdaniel at indata.us]

Do they not know that the new Star Reader, Math programs are all web
based and now run on a web server?  Compass Learning's product is also
web based.  I just attended a conference here in Alabama, AETA, and one
of the speakers was an elementary school principal from Portland.  He is
a big advocate of OpenSource and has seen many benefits in his school. 
Perhaps I can email you his name and maybe he can provide some
assistance.  He is also very technical, not your average principal.




Ronald R. McDaniel
Conecuh County Schools
(251) 578-7073 x26
(251) 230-0658 cell
rmcdaniel at indata.us


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [K12OSN] Defending education usage for k12ltsp
> From: Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, October 24, 2005 4:58 pm
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools."
> <k12osn at redhat.com>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Hope all is doing well.
> 
> So tomorrow I have to go into the school and meet with the new
> principal, where I have to defend that the linux lab has some sort of
> educational value. As the message that was left for me said, "All the
> educational software on the market is for Windows."  This is
> independent of the fact that the lab was running for the past year and
> a half under the old administration, supporting their educational
> needs with no problem.
> 
> Part of the problem is that she has a trusted advisor (not at the
> school) who seems to have a lot of experience (years and years) with
> computers is pushing this idea onto the principal. Seems they both
> feel that only Windows can support the educational software that they
> have heard of.
> 
> This seems to be an urgent issue, as they were about to go ahead with
> the dismantling of the lab without even talking about it, so I only
> have one chance before they decide to change all the machines to
> Windows 98 (I have no idea how they will go about doing this, but the
> machines cannot support anything more and that's what they have
> suggested).
> 
> So what do you all think?  This is a small elementary school and I
> know many other schools out there use k12ltsp - how do you deal with
> this situation? I'm thinking 2 things - 1) many applications may
> already exist for linux that I just need to show them or
> download/install and show them and 2) maybe you know about windows
> programs which could have previously required installation but now run
> through a browser off a website and therefore no longer need Windows.
> 
> help!
> 
> Joseph
> 
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