[CoLoCo] New Member in Longmont

Sat Sep 8 16:43:02 BST 2007

Richard,

I feel your pain. I work at Windsor HS and have been dealing with many of
the same issues. I did manage to get IT to set up a linux thin-client lab
but they have never really considered it a model to emulate. Just an
experiment and a cheap way to get one more lab in our school. They did buy a
nice server for the lab but then took it away and gave us a 6 or 7 year old
one. Most of the teachers feel the lab is inferior and won't use it. They
even talk it down to students ("sorry class but we are in the ghetto lab
today"). The math teachers won't look at Kig or any of the free math
programs. It's Geo Sketch or nothing. However, they just lost their lab do
to increasing enrollment so now is my chance to move them to OS. Only my
Linux lab is currently not working (thanks for the crappy server guys).
Anyway, that's my ramble.

Btw, I think I know the media specialist at Skyline. It's one of two people
I went to grad school with at UNC. I think it's a guy but can't remember his
name. Kind of a long hair hippy-ish guy. Yes? No?

Jim

On 9/7/07, Richard Guenther <heistooheavy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Joey,
>
> I teach at Skyline High School. However, I have family in Co. Springs and
> will probably move there in the future (unless the family moves here, which
> MAY happen...)--so TJ,  don't feel alone down there.  I'm there quite often
> :-).
>
> I went Linux last year and really never looked back--in fact a student of
> mine got me into it.  Dumped Vista off of my laptop the day before my Norton
> Internet Security Prophylactic Package Or Whatever expired.  Was using Mepis
> and was pretty active on the Mepis forums, but then went to Ubuntu for
> various reasons.
>
> Math teacher by profession, also a life-long science fiction (books--not
> into trek) nut.  Also a fan of the DCP (Digital Comics Preservation) group.
> I'm not great at programming, I'm not intimate with the kernal--but I love
> the open-source philosophy and I'm in a position where I can really do a lot
> of Linux/Ubuntu promotion--kids are very open-minded.
>
> I try to learn more constantly and have many people who are interested in
> my programming club.  I got the club to be sponsored by MESA, which brings
> in some $, and I got them to agree totally with my stance on open-source
> software (before we agreed I sent them many many links on OS, the CP4E
> initiative, etc).  It was pretty funny, actually.  They are so in need of
> teachers to work with minority and at-risk students that they agreed to fund
> a 100% open-source programming club. Okay.  Maybe we can all go to Pycon
> this year :-)
>
> I have a good time teaching.  Just wish I knew even more about
> programming.  I can probably contribute more in Ubuntu advocacy than
> anything.  I battle our district tech people every day about certain issues,
> but I have also found some real good guys there too (the Linux Penguin in
> the one guys sig kind of helped....).  Still, I'm amazed how little the
> average teacher knows about OS software.  Our Astronomy teacher nearly fell
> over when I showed her Stellarium--she couldn't believe that program was
> free and open-source.  I'm trying to change those views slowly.  Otherwise
> all decisions about things like geometry software are decided solely by what
> a few teachers have heard of (so they go out and buy Geometer's Sketchpad,
> because that's THE geometry program).
>
> I ramble.  I'm sure you have experienced similar things.
>
> P.S. Does Mark Lutz (author of Programming Python) live in Longmont?
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Joey Stanford <joey at canonical.com>
> To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 7, 2007 8:56:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] New Member in Longmont
>
> OOh, 6!
>
> Joey, Alex, Richard, Chris, and Paul are the ones I know off. I'm
> pretty sure I'm missing one person though.
>
> Joey
>
> On 9/7/07, Alex Comer <alex at platinumcode.com> wrote:
> > Are you counting me Joey? Who all is in Longmont?
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > On 9/7/07, Joey Stanford <joey at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Richard,
> > >
> > > Welcome aboard.  I think this makes 5 of us now from Longmont.   What
> > > school do you work for?
> > >
> > > Joey
> > >
> > > On 9/6/07, Richard Guenther <heistooheavy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello everyone, I just found out this list exists.
> > > >
> > > > I teach math and have a programming club at a high school of 1450
> > students.
> > > > The club focuses on open-source software (Python is our main lang).
> > > >
> > > > So, greetings!
> > > >
> > > > Richard
> > > >
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