DRBL and Technology

[Jim Christiansen]

OK...  I give! ;-)

Robert A. (aka: of Fl_TeacherTool fame) came by for a visit last summer with
his beautiful  family and explained to me, among other things, how DRBL
worked.  I had read about it a year earlier and even grabbed the scripts but
didn't go any further with it  (I've been terribly handicapped...  until
recently I've spent most of my time with DIY fuel injection, DIY ignition
and Vette engines in odd vehicles) - sort of adhd so to speak.  Robert
probably noticed my distraction and attention focused on the garage...

I'll fire DRBL onto a server and give it a go with several senior students
to gorilla test it and the install process.

I sure have had a greater number of teachers than ever before asking for
functional access to heavy flash sites and if DRBL, as it is a local running
image, can facilitate this I'm all for it.

As for including DRBL in Edubuntu it would seem to be a no-brainer.  We
can't hold up progress, we've got to embrace it and roll with it every step
of the way.  I'm in a school where the Principals have always been
supportive of Linux and LTSP.  From comparisons of down-time to maintenance
and dollars spent they appreciate what Linux and LTSP has to offer.  Maybe
DRBL is next in line for adoption.

We run a basically open wireless system in the building.  After I placed the
last repeater (dd-wrt) and fired up the new gateway I had an instant 240
ipods clogging the new pipe.  Students use these devices in all language
classes and anywhere else teachers promote their use.  Kudos to the French
and Spanish teacher for the rapid adoption.  Now we need to add another
subnet so our 56 netbooks on carts can have guaranteed access.

Thanks everyone,

Jim
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