are you all waiting and sometimes students, and to know about the equipment of the public schools my hardware and software. If you know it should not, because their example, to a private school wait, I describe first the situation at my school, a small school (700 students).
Our school have two computer rooms, each containing 20 computers. The computers Windows XP is installed, and they are all connected to a network, such as the well is so common in schools. This network includes some additional features, such as the ability as a teacher at the screens, mouse and keyboard to access the student. In addition, a lock is used for the Internet, which changes very frequently in their effects. So on some days, each side is blocked by the parties, with the comment that they belonged to the category of propaganda, and days when even the side of large publishing houses, so the lock to the category Education and included, and therefore not apply to school should be accessible. On still other days, all mail accounts are no longer accessible, and it is no longer possible in the classroom earned secure. For us students the best days so if the lock fails, even if this means that some of the time trying to test whether all sides are released, as is the case, and makes it possible to at school & Youporn Co. to surf, which I think is the minimum that should be blocked.
So now you know the confused situation of the school network, and I can not describe how the whole thing could be simplified, and why nobody does this.
First of all, I believe should be installed by an operating system, which is free and open, and to adjust to the needs of the school can. For this I can highly recommend Ubuntu, and also it is clear that the administrator would have to adjust to a new system, which would involve some work. Some students had at least initially problems with settling into a new, differently structured system.
long term, but would avoid a lot of work related transition expenses, as many errors were caused by Windows eradicated. Also have to get the other students would have an advantage: you realize that there are also software beyond proprietary standards. Thus, the propaganda would Microsoft be stopped at the schools.
The Internet locks could by simple control of teachers be improved by a program to lock certain pages on the computer of the teacher is installed, which makes it possible to restrict all access to certain pages. So in the first hours would first Facebook and SchülerVZ, and subsequently followed by all other not for teaching imaginary or get on the list, and created so suitable for teaching profile of each teacher, the important thing that any teacher even a manages its own list, depending on the way to where it allows access to the students. This is important because, especially on sites like Wikipedia, everyone has their own opinion.
Now go to the hardware. In my school, any PC with an AMD Athlon processor, 1024 MB DDR2 RAM and a relatively normal other hardware features, which were each uninstalled the sound driver, which does not interfere further, but only distributes the fun videos. Furthermore, we have on every PC a 19-inch flat screen, with some within the 2 years that they have already endured at school, spots or black bars on the display. It probably would have been better to stick with the old CRT monitors, which were still fully functional, and instead to invest in new projectors and other equipment for the school. Otherwise, the school can not really complain about hardware.
Now to the reasons why no free software at schools like mine is used:
- The money is earmarked for software and must be issued if they are saved, the school can not use it for other investments.
- The proprietary software is already available. That is a change to other software is a lot of work and training among the teachers, administrators and service employees inside the cities.
- Proprietary software is heavily sponsored by the manufacturers. Many software companies view their investments in educational software as an investment in future customers. Less so are the children who learn in school, dealing with Microsoft Office 07 on OpenOffice.Org change, as children in school will learn with OpenOffice, stick with OpenOffice.
- There are moving forward with problems in the use of two operating systems, and even between similar programs connect to a few points of friction that can constantly disrupt normal processes in the classroom. (See OpenOffice / MS Office 2007, ODF / docx)
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