On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Derek Harding wrote:
Here, here about school/educational software on opensource. I've just been told that my proposed terminal server setup won't get the go ahead unless I can prove the educational, not financial, viability!
As an aside, you might ask them to *prove* the educational viability of the alternative. Just because everyone else is doing it only shows there's been a marketing success.
For *educational* purposes you should introduce them to systems they are *not* familiar with from home use. In RE we teach them other religions,
The argument that schools should have systems the same as at home gets a bit silly unless you were to replace networks with a large PBX and have the kids connect up to an "ISP". -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763