Re: [Nolug] Teaching a Computer Elective

Christopher,
    There's a state recycling facility in Baton Rouge that will
give -- as in free -- recycled computers to schools. They probably
won't have an OS and they may be Pentium-1, but that should give you
something to start with. I think it's the Louisiana Property Recycling
Agency, or something like that. If you are interested, I'll look up
the contact info when I go by my school Monday.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher M. Jones <cjones@partialflow.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Friday, August 06, 2004 1:08 PM
Subject: [Nolug] Teaching a Computer Elective

>Hello, NOLUGgers,
>
>I've been on the list for a while, even if I haven't been active for
the
>last two years or so. A while back I mentioned that I was looking for
>some equipment for my school, and several of you were very interested
to
>help out. I am teaching at Desire Street Academy, a school for
at-risk
>African American boys from the Desire/Florida community.
>
>This year I was asked to teach a computer elective. What I've decided
to
>do is twofold: for the first part I want to teach web design. For the
>second part I want to have them build a machine that they can keep.
>Here's the help I need:
>
>1. Parts donations, preferably decent, especially
> recent enough mobos.
>2. Advice: I'm guessing I'll have to start from
> scratch with the OS. What are my options? My
> preference would be to have them install Linux.
> But if I decided to go easy on them, does anyone
> have suggestions for how I would get enough copies
> of some fairly recent Windows?
>3. Someone to give me advice on course content. Have
> a look at my syllabus, maybe.
>4. Some good suggestions for field trips for this
> class.
>5. Volunteers to come talk to the class about business
> opportunities in computing, esp. programming and
> networking.
>6. Any bright ideas for stuff I never thought of.
>
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