[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Teaching.... teachers!

[Kirill "REDbyte" Novikov]

Hi! I haven't been in the list for a long time - so I'm sorry if someone
already asked question like that. So this year I'm graduating from high
school, but I still can't encourige my teachers and school administration to
make a desicion about moving from pirated version of Win98 to Fedora. I
tried hard, but they afraid that they should learn new OS and change all
their tests and control works for students. They even don't want to try
installing it. What should I do?

[Thijs H]

Give them a Fedora DVD/CD's, or put a Fedora LiveCD in the computer at you
school, and show how nice Linux is !

You can also ask the system administrators to install Fedora on just a few
computers, so interested people can have a look at it. Maybe, if you say
that it is very important that students see that Windows isn't the only
operating system on the world, they will give it a try.

Ah.. also tell them about dual-boot, and the possibility to remove Fedora
when the don't like it !

On 3/17/06, REDbyte Labs <redbyte.labs(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi! I haven't been in the list for a long time - so I'm sorry if someone
>  already asked question like that. So this year I'm graduating from high
>  school, but I still can't encourige my teachers and school administration to
>  make a desicion about moving from pirated version of Win98 to Fedora. I
>  tried hard, but they afraid that they should learn new OS and change all
>  their tests and control works for students. They even don't want to try
>  installing it. What should I do?
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[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

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REDbyte Labs wrote:
>  Hi! I haven't been in the list for a long time - so I'm sorry
> if someone
>  already asked question like that. So this year I'm graduating from high
>  school, but I still can't encourige my teachers and school
>  administration to make a desicion about moving from pirated version of
>  Win98 to Fedora. I tried hard, but they afraid that they should learn
>  new OS and change all their tests and control works for students. They
>  even don't want to try installing it. What should I do? 
Hmm....why would the teachers want to move to Fedora ? Should that not
cause a whole lot of pain for the SysAdmins, Teachers and of course the
students in terms of learning new things and maintaining the system ?

:)

That said - you could begin by doing the following:

o List out the everyday tasks/regular tasks that the OS environment is
supposed to perform
o What are the various services that are being provided
o How do the various users - students, teachers use the OS environment

- From thereon, the way forward would be to provide a small setup where
all the above things can be demonstrated with ease. This would require
the buy-in of some teachers and students (since you cannot take care of
the systems 24x7)

Regards
Sankarshan



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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: Teaching.... teachers!

[Kirill "REDbyte" Novikov]

Scholl computers are kinda old - P2 with 64 mb of RAM - so KDE
certanly would work very slow on them. What window manager to chose.
What about Enlightment?

2006/3/20, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com&gt;:
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>  REDbyte Labs wrote:
>  > Hi! I haven't been in the list for a long time - so I'm sorry if someone
>  > already asked question like that. So this year I'm graduating from high
>  > school, but I still can't encourige my teachers and school
>  > administration to make a desicion about moving from pirated version of
>  > Win98 to Fedora. I tried hard, but they afraid that they should learn
>  > new OS and change all their tests and control works for students. They
>  > even don't want to try installing it. What should I do?
>
>  Hmm....why would the teachers want to move to Fedora ? Should that not
>  cause a whole lot of pain for the SysAdmins, Teachers and of course the
>  students in terms of learning new things and maintaining the system ?
>
>  :)
>
>  That said - you could begin by doing the following:
>
>  o List out the everyday tasks/regular tasks that the OS environment is
>  supposed to perform
>  o What are the various services that are being provided
>  o How do the various users - students, teachers use the OS environment
>
>  - From thereon, the way forward would be to provide a small setup where
>  all the above things can be demonstrated with ease. This would require
>  the buy-in of some teachers and students (since you cannot take care of
>  the systems 24x7)
>
>  Regards
>  Sankarshan
>
>
>
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>  You see things; and you say 'Why?';
>  But I dream things that never were;
>  and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
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[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: Teaching.... teachers!

[Clair]

REDbyte Labs wrote:
>  Scholl computers are kinda old - P2 with 64 mb of RAM - so KDE
>  certanly would work very slow on them. What window manager to chose.
>  What about Enlightment? 
icewm. See http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/installing-icewm/


Clair