RE: [Sheflug] Re: Linux in Sheffield Schools

[David Willington <david.willington [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> David
> 
> I've been working with schools in Sheffield for over 3 years now and have
> found that they can (on average) be quite reluctant to change or to new
> ideas.  IMO many teachers are still struggling to know as much about PCs as
> the students and introducing a new way of working or even just a new name
> for the same way of doing things can be difficult.  Some school suppliers
> have taken to not listing the operating system on boxes they sell into
> schools but sell "black boxes" purely on their functionality (its a
> firewall, its an email server, its a print server as opposed to "this Linux
> box will do email, file sharing and firewall").  There are two notable
> companies in Sheffield providing Linux services to schools.  Spyderworks
> (.co.uk) has a school server solution for email, firewall, file sharing,
> print sharing and a host of other things and Hypercubesystems (.co.uk)
> provide, amongst other things, thin client based solutions for schools.
Chris

Thanks for the reply - definitely food for thought.  My wife teaches in
Sheffield having just come from a technology college in Peterborough. 
She's as skeptical as they come about computers, but has been crying out
for the facilities they had in Peterborough.  

All the best

David willington


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