Linux in the Classroom

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Permalink Reply by Karen Fasimpaur on March 24, 2009 at 3:22pm

There's going to be conversation about this tonight. See http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/panel-discussionopen-....

My best-of-class list for this would include:
- OpenOffice
- GIMP
- Audacity
- Moodle
- Many, many online Web 2.0 apps (See http://web20wiki.wikispaces.com/)

See http://www.k12opened.com/wiki/index.php/Tools for links and more.

The use of online apps works well on Linux and also takes care of many of the domain and log-in issues. I am involved in a one-to-one project in which almost all the tools being used are online and it is great!

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Permalink Reply by Cheri MacLeod on March 25, 2009 at 9:57am

Good suggestions here! You took the software out of my mouth!

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Permalink Reply by Matt Townsley on March 24, 2009 at 6:47pm

As far as choosing a specific linux distro., I've heard good things about Edubuntu and K12LTSP. The latter might be better if you have older hardware.

Netbooks are coming preinstalled with Linux these days, too. I can't speak to your question about implementing ina Windows domain environment.

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