What does the tech setup look like in your grade school?

What does the tech setup look like in your grade school?

[Aaron E-J]

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I am developing a ready-out-of the-box, open source virtual remote
desktop platform and would like to investigate its deployment in school
systems.  My assumption is that most schools are using proprietary
technologies (Mac/PC) for the most part and that a switch to Linux based
platforms would bring cost savings.  However, I know very little about
the current technology setups in schools near me – let alone schools
elsewhere in the U.S. (where I'm based) or the world.  I would like to
hear from people who have kids, what does their school technology setup
look like?

Thanks!

-- 
Aaron E-J
http://otherrealm.org
http://theotherrealm.org (Blog)


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Re: What does the tech setup look like in your grade school?

[Felix Posselt]

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Well, not my kids, but my very own school looks like this:All Mircosoft Windows PCs, all "upgraded" to Windows 10.They all have free software solutions pre-installed, like Libre-Office, but those are only used by me.The Computer have the tendency to be very slow even though, they have good CPUs and turn themself off for no reason whatsoever, but what else is to expected by a Windows.The schools i have went to before had all Microsoft Windows, ranging from Windows XP to Windows 7, and of course they were also very slow.They however didn't even have Libre-Office, but I didnt bother back in the day, because I didn't even know, what free software was. Had to teach this myself years later.The Lessons are tailored for Microsoftprogramms, all but me are using Microsoft Office.
I'm from germany and i am pretty sure, that every average school here looks like this.
Greetings


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http://otherrealm.org
http://theotherrealm.org (Blog) 

   

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Re: What does the tech setup look like in your grade school?

[amunizp]

El 13 de octubre de 2016 00:18:37 GMT+01:00, Aaron E-J <the@otherrealm.org> escribió:
>I am developing a ready-out-of the-box, open source virtual remote
>desktop platform and would like to investigate its deployment in school
>systems.  My assumption is that most schools are using proprietary
>technologies (Mac/PC) for the most part and that a switch to Linux
>based
>platforms would bring cost savings.  However, I know very little about
>the current technology setups in schools near me – let alone schools
>elsewhere in the U.S. (where I'm based) or the world.  I would like to
>hear from people who have kids, what does their school technology setup
>look like?
>
>Thanks!

Don't know what they have now but they are going for the very expensive and monopolistic smartboards.  A whiteboard/touchscreen. I am doing what I can to avoid it.
A quick search shows some hit and miss DIY replacements no profesional solution.
-- --
Andres (he/him/his)
Ham United Group
Richmond Makerlabs

Re: What does the tech setup look like in your grade school?

[jimgarrett001]

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I think our local schools in Melrose, Massachusetts are primarily Windows, with some Chromebooks and iPads here and there for special purposes.

Many years ago I was chatting with a high school teacher at a GNU/Linux user's group meeting. He said, "If you put students in front of computers in the classroom, it doesn't matter what operating system it has. They're going to break it, and the teacher will spend all of his/her time fixing desktops. You need a remote desktop on central server." So the idea of a remote desktop for schools sounds great. The big competition there will be Chromebooks and Google apps.

Jim Garrett

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Subject: [libreplanet-discuss] What does the tech setup look like in your grade school?
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2016 02:15


El 13 de octubre de 2016 00:18:37 GMT+01:00, Aaron E-J <the@otherrealm.org> escribió:
>I am developing a ready-out-of the-box, open source virtual remote
>desktop platform and would like to investigate its deployment in school
>systems.  My assumption is that most schools are using proprietary
>technologies (Mac/PC) for the most part and that a switch to Linux
>based
>platforms would bring cost savings.  However, I know very little about
>the current technology setups in schools near me – let alone schools
>elsewhere in the U.S. (where I'm based) or the world.  I would like to
>hear from people who have kids, what does their school technology setup
>look like?
>
>Thanks!

Don't know what they have now but they are going for the very expensive and monopolistic smartboards.  A whiteboard/touchscreen. I am doing what I can to avoid it.
A quick search shows some hit and miss DIY replacements no profesional solution.
-- --
Andres (he/him/his)
Ham United Group
Richmond Makerlabs


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Re: What does the tech setup look like in your grade school?

[Rudolf]

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I would recommend finding out who has the buying power at a local school,
that's the person you're going to have to convince to deploy your system
not to mention whoever runs IT at the school department.

>From my highschool days I remember we only ran Windows and they were locked
down to particular programs and web browsers. The best demo is showing what
can be done with existing hardware.

-rudolf

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:52 AM jimgarrett001@gmail.com <
jimgarrett001@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think our local schools in Melrose, Massachusetts are primarily Windows,
> with some Chromebooks and iPads here and there for special purposes.
>
> Many years ago I was chatting with a high school teacher at a GNU/Linux
> user's group meeting. He said, "If you put students in front of computers
> in the classroom, it doesn't matter what operating system it has. They're
> going to break it, and the teacher will spend all of his/her time fixing
> desktops. You need a remote desktop on central server." So the idea of a
> remote desktop for schools sounds great. The big competition there will be
> Chromebooks and Google apps.
>
> Jim Garrett
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "amunizp" <a75576@alumni.tecnun.es>
> To: "Aaron E-J" <the@otherrealm.org>, <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org>,
> <tech-coop@npogroups.org>
> Subject: [libreplanet-discuss] What does the tech setup look like in your
> grade school?
> Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2016 02:15
>
>
> El 13 de octubre de 2016 00:18:37 GMT+01:00, Aaron E-J <the@otherrealm.org>
> escribió:
> >I am developing a ready-out-of the-box, open source virtual remote
> >desktop platform and would like to investigate its deployment in school
> >systems.  My assumption is that most schools are using proprietary
> >technologies (Mac/PC) for the most part and that a switch to Linux
> >based
> >platforms would bring cost savings.  However, I know very little about
> >the current technology setups in schools near me – let alone schools
> >elsewhere in the U.S. (where I'm based) or the world.  I would like to
> >hear from people who have kids, what does their school technology setup
> >look like?
> >
> >Thanks!
>
> Don't know what they have now but they are going for the very expensive
> and monopolistic smartboards.  A whiteboard/touchscreen. I am doing what I
> can to avoid it.
> A quick search shows some hit and miss DIY replacements no profesional
> solution.
> -- --
> Andres (he/him/his)
> Ham United Group
> Richmond Makerlabs
>
>

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