Hi!

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Diane Leikvold
<dleikvold at longmontchristian.org> wrote:
> Hello Algot, My name is Diane and I am a year old user of Ubuntu.
>
> I am (or was) a teacher in Longmont Colorado.  I started out teaching all
> the HS/Ms computer classes 10 years ago, then brought what I was teaching
> them to elementary. Now i just teach 5th keyboarding and application
> software, but i still manage all the computers throughout the school for
> teachers and two student labs.  Because we are a small private school - not
> a lot of money, i made the decision to go to Ubuntu last year, and I am so
> glad i did.  Of the Labs and teachers, and most of the office people it went
> over very well.  So much faster and easier to use (and Free) then Windows.
> The office manager struggles using it because she likes MS Publisher and i
> can not get that to work in wine.  Also our student management system has
> two version, the web version works great for the teachers, however the
> desktop version I use with Wine and there are some features (emailing) that
> i can't get to work, so they have to use the web version to email.  So for
> the most part it was a very successful year.  I would suggest trying any
> software first before you ever make a school switch over.  One teacher (HS
> Science) his curriculum Prentace Hall came with several pieces of software
> and presentations that was a trick in an half to work within Ubuntu.  We
> finally did make it all work and he is happy.  Also Ubuntu won't support
> Shockwave and there are a few educational websites that still use Shockwave
> and we can't use those sites (IKnowthat.com).  This is more info that you
> were probably wanting, but hope it helps.  PS we have saved thousands of
> dollars going to opensource.  We don't need virus software, and i just
> changed over our firewall/web filtering from SonicWall (yearly support costs
> + appliance) to Untangle (free).
>
> Is there anyone else out there in the United States that teaches or their
> school uses Ubuntu?

Hi Diane,
I wish all our schools had heroes like you!

We have Partimus (http://partimus.org) in the SF Bay Area that plugs
away tirelessly to implement Linux (primarily Ubuntu) in schools
around here. I work with them and my interests are in introducing
Sugar (http://sugarlabs.org) to schools to fill the primary/middle
school needs (ages 6 to 12). Sugar is the learning environment
originally developed for the One Laptop per Child project
(http://laptop.org), but now runs on many different hardware platforms
and Linux distros.

We ourselves at SF State use Ubuntu in one of our undergraduate
classrooms to teach multimedia. We use a terminal server setup with 33
desktop machines. A somewhat dated presentation is available at
http://www.slideshare.net/sverma/ubuntu-and-linux-terminal-server-project

I should mention that now we use a "low fat" client setup where the
server runs some of the apps for all clients, but the clients
themselves run the high CPU, low latency apps such as Blender,
Firefox+Adobe Flash plug-in. Most of this runs on hand-me-down
hardware and that works well for us, given that the State of
California is running low on money (or so I'm told).

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Information Systems
Director, Campus Business Solutions
San Francisco State University
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
http://cbs.sfsu.edu/
http://is.sfsu.edu/
http://olpcsf.org/

>
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Algot Runeman <algot.runeman at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/20/2011 08:58 AM, Simón Ruiz wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/5/20 sund<sundmaggie at live.cn>:
>>>>
>>>> I am new, so Hi!
>>>
>>> Hi, sund.
>>>
>>> Welcome aboard!
>>>
>> Hello, sund,
>>
>> How are you using Ubuntu? Are you a teacher? Does your school support
>>  your use of open source software?
>> --Algot
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