[CLUE-Admin] [Fwd: CLUE Web Site Contact Form - Presentation on linux in education (Sat Jun 8 2002 04:14 pm)]

[Lynn Danielson]

Guys,

I received the following message from John Hamilton.  How do you feel 
about the topic?
Does anyone have any objections to an Linux in education case study 
presentation like
this one seems to be?  It seems fine to me and I think Roger Frank would 
probably be
inetersted (if he's not already involved).  If I hear no arguments by 
early next week, I'll go
ahead and schedule him for late fall.  

Thanks,

Lynn

-------- Original Message --------

I'm doing a presentation the end of June for the Technology In Education conference 
at Copper Mountain. What I will be presenting is what we have been doing to
integrate technology (PC's) into the classroom. The program we are running uses
donated PC's from local industry that are refurbished by high school teens and adult
voluteers. These PC's are put into labs and into classrooms that are networked to
linux servers to provide file sharing, internet access, email, etc. We are also experimenting
with a linux thin client setup using software from the LTSP project. We have placed
over 300 PC's in Lois Lenski Elementary School in Centennial, CO and the teachers
have really embrased the technology and have integrated the use of these PC's into their
daily curriculum. The goal of the project is to provide free computers running Open 
Source software with support from the community. We hope to achieve that goal within
the next two years. If you are interested, I would be happy to do my presentation for
CLUE at one of the meetings.

Regards,

John Hamilton