- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
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- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html">Større PC-tetthet i skolen med Skolelinux?</a></div>
- <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Den siste uka har det vært en del skriverier om hvor store
-forskjeller det er mellom skolene når det gjelder digital kompetanse.
-Et eksempel er
-<a href="http://www.digi.no/891660/bekymret-for-it-i-skolen">oppslaget
-i Digi</a>. Diskusjonen fikk meg til å bli litt nysgjerrig på om
-Linux-skoler har større PC-tettet enn snittet i landet. Grunnlaget
-for diskusjonen har vært undersøkelsen
-<a href="https://iktsenteret.no/ressurser/monitor-2011-skolens-digitale-tilstand">Monitor
-2011</a>, som bruker informasjon fra
-<a href="https://www.wis.no/gsi">Grunnskolens Informasjonssystem</a>
-(GSI). GSI-data kan lastes ned fra web og jeg lastet ned en Excel-fil
-(intet åpen standard-valg tilgjengelig) med navn på alle skoler,
-hvilke kommune de befinner seg i og hvor mange elever pr. elev-PC de
-har rapportert inn. For å få en ide om svaret trenger jeg deretter å
-vite hvilke skoler i landet som bruker Linux, slik at jeg kan slå dem
-opp i GSI og finne ut hvor stor PC-tetthet de har.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg vet om skoler i Balsfjord, Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik,
-Nittedal, Nord-Odal, Randaberg og Sunndal som bruker Skolelinux eller
-andre Linux-varianter. Jeg tror det er flere enn de 56 skolene jeg
-har klart å identifisere de siste dagene, men har ikke klart å få det
-bekreftet med offentlige kilder.</p>
-
-<p>Monitor 2011-rapporteres side 95 forteller at det "ifølge GSI
-(20120-2011) er det 3,11 elever per datamaskin når vi tar med alle
-grunnskoler (1.-10.trinn)". For de 56 Linux-skolene jeg har klart å
-koble mot informasjon i GSI er det 2,28 elever per elevdatamaskin,
-hvilket betyr at det er 36% høyere PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler enn
-landsgjennomsnittet. Linux-skolen med høyest tettet blant de jeg har
-notert -skole er Flora ungdomsskule i Flora kommune med 0.82 elev
-pr. PC (482 elever, 588 elevdatamaskiner).</p>
-
-<p>Skolelinux gir datamaskiner lengre levetid, og en kan dermed få
-flere operative datamaskiner for samme budsjett, i tillegg til en
-rekke andre fordeler. Kan det være forklaringen på forskjellen?</p>
-
-<p>Tallene må tas med en liten klype, da GSI ser ut til å ha endel
-feilføringer. Jeg synes i hvert fall en skole med 423 elever og 9
-elevmaskiner ser mistenkelig ut. Eller en skole med 346 elever, 0
-elevmaskiner, som er et annet ekstremt eksempel jeg fant.</p>
-
-<p>Takk til Sturle Sunde, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Ole-Anders Andreassen og
-Trond Mæhlum for innspill om skoler med Linux.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html">Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</a></div>
- <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
-users are spread all across the globe. The second inteview after
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">the
-Squeeze release</a> was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
-long time Linux user in United Kingdom.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
-Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
-author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
-contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
-encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
-years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
-weren't able to convert many of them into sustainable
-installations.</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
-London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
-just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
-along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
-mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
-well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
-have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
-LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
-these things we decided to try it.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
-from that I have always believed in the same "sustainable computing"
-goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
-would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
-low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
-that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
-Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
-proprietary software everywhere.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>As a newcomer I'm just finding out who's who in the community and
-how you're organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
-various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
-English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
-users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
-OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
-desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
-use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I'm not sure if
-that counts...)</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p>That's a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
-and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
-the notion of "computer" means simply "proprietary office
-applications". However, schools today are experiencing budget
-constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
-XP. At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
-iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
-longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
-realised that we need people with programming skills, so they're
-putting coding back in the curriculum! And it's encouraging that the
-first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.</p>
-
-<p>I don't really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
-free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu users in this country has to be part of it.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.