Re: [Nolug] Teaching a Computer Elective

From: John D. Tiedeman <jdtiede_at_sstar.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:22:44 -0500
Message-ID: <4113DA84.9040305@sstar.com>

Dave Prentice wrote:

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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I used to take non-working computer components (and occasionally a whole computer) to an warehouse run by the Marin County School Board in San Rafael, CA. They would cannibalize and presumably separate constitutents of unusable parts for recycling. Does the agency you mentioned do all that? If so, I have a couple of boxes of stuff--I have to put usable copper, etc., in the garbage!

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