{"id":3504,"date":"2011-07-21T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2011-07-19T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T23:19:37","slug":"pclinuxos-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/pclinuxos-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"PCLinuxOS In The Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3512\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/first-time-seeing-linux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3512\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3512\" title=\"first time seeing linux\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/first-time-seeing-linux.jpg\" alt=\"When people see Linux for the first time, they're impressed!  They want to use it!\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When people see Linux for the first time, they&#39;re impressed!  They want to use it!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The following comes from Jim,\u00a0 a member on the <a title=\"Jim's orignal post on the PCLinuxOS forums\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\/forum\/index.php\/topic,92714.msg777627.html#msg777627\" target=\"_blank\">PCLinuxOS forums.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d share it with my blog readers.\u00a0 It points out how new users immediately see Linux as being attractive, powerful , and easy to set up and use.\u00a0 Once you see Linux is action, your curiosity level spikes!<\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s forum post also shows how easy it is to share Linux with others.<\/p>\n<p><em>In my retirement from teaching mathematics, I am called upon, from time  to time, to go to the local High School as a Supply or Relieving  Teacher.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today, as I left for another day in the classroom, I  grabbed my laptop and, eventually, \u00a0set it up in the classroom. For each  class, I was able to demonstrate Linux in operation. Connection via the  school network worked perfectly as did linking to the roof mounted  video projector. (Connection to the projector has proved difficult with  some other distros.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One group of 15 year old students were so  impressed on the OS on display, that 6 of them produced USB sticks and  we pasted a copy of the (previously downloaded) ISO for PCLinuxOS  2010.12 on to each. Having warned them that the learning curve might be  challenging but rewarding, I sent them off home with eager anticipation  to try out their newly acquired OS. Some of the others in the class were  keenly asking if I would be back to take them for mathematics again  tomorrow so that they might also get a copy of PCLinuxOS. In the  meantime, we settled back on to the scheduled study of area and volume.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following comes from Jim,\u00a0 a member on the PCLinuxOS forums. I thought I&#8217;d share it with my blog readers.\u00a0 It points out how new users immediately see Linux as being attractive, powerful , and easy to set up and use.\u00a0 Once you see Linux is action, your curiosity level spikes! Jim&#8217;s forum post also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[285,9,10,16],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized","tag-classroom","tag-linux","tag-pclinuxos","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3518,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}