On 29/07/11 10:06, Sarah Chard wrote: > Hi > I wanted to let you know what is happening here in Herefordshire. > As a part of ISFD we are running an Open Source Schools Project - > partially inspired by discussions here on education and open source. > > Herefordshire LUG contacted schools across the county and we now have > around 7 schools primary, junior and secondary who are interested in > taking part. > > We are creating a lubuntu based distro called tuxedu > http://www.tuxedu.org.uk/ for use in primary schools - this is designed > to run live but is locked down so it is a completely safe and secure > environment. We also intend to produce a secondary version that does > allow internet access. > Because it is based on lubuntu it is lightweight and will run on older > less high spec machines. > > Following our HLUG meeting on weds we now have support from the ICT > consultants at the council who organise ICT across the county's schools > - they are introducing us to the schools network techs - so that we can > explain our project and ensure that they will allow us access to run > tuxedu on the schools networks. > > We intend to do workshops with students at the schools and also run a > session with teachers and possibly interested parents at each school - > this will all take place in the autumn term. > If it is successful we may be able to expand the project to other > schools in the county > It is a very exciting project and our hope is that it can be used as a > base for similar projects in other areas. > > Sarah
Well Done! -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
