The past days have been spent on test preparations. We have been doing first test installations and finding out how the accompanying software works for each of the interactive whiteboards. The installations have been done on stock Ubuntu 10.04 LTS setup. We have been focusing at this point on installation and first-time use experiences. This [...]
Interactive whiteboards like Smartboards are becoming more and more common in classrooms and there are also quite a few linux users using them. As we do a lot of work with Ubuntu LTSP based fat clients, I needed to find a way to get the Smartboard software installed in the chroot image. SMART Technologies provides [...]
Belinda Lopez asked about Ubuntu adoption in schools and what one would expect from Canonical in this sector: http://dindafoss.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/ubuntu-in-education/ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2010-August/006389.html As I’m working for Opinsys, a solution provider in Finland, that builds systems for schools using Ubuntu, I first thought that this was an easy task – just write down a bunch of things and [...]
A few months ago we had a blog entry about shared and personal laptops in schools. The goal of shared laptops is basically that they should behave mostly like shared thin clients: it should not matter which a computer any user chooses to work with. He should simply be able to pick any machine, login [...]
