project evagoras i & ii 1 pc per classroom until year 2002 3 pcs per classroom until year 2008...
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Project Evagoras I & II
1 PC Per Classroom until year 2002
3 PCs Per Classroom until year 2008
30+ computers per school
NO SUPPORT PERSONNEL
Prospects…
• 500 + Servers by the year 2008 in Primary Education
• 15 000 + Clients (Thin Clients or Fat Clients) by the year 2008 in Primary Education
‘Apoplous’ Research
2001-2002: 1 Computer for every 4 students
2002-2003: 1 Computer per desk
Windows 98/Office XP
Linux/OpenOffice/StarOffice (2003)
Problems Identified
Having a Lab inside a classroom requires heavy maintenance
A lot of failures can occur (hardware or otherwise)
Any disturbance in the teams leads to negative learning results!
Proposed Solution
Move from Fat Clients to Thin Clients
Investigate Computer Recycling (June 2004)
Work with H.T.E. (Sun Microsystems Cyprus) for a possible solution
Evaluate K12LTSP (Fedora Core/LTSP)
Year 1: 2004-2005
One school, 200+ students
One Classroom, 28 students
14 Clients (Pentium II/Celeron) with LAN cards that support PXE
K12LTSP Server
OpenOffice 2.0 / StarOffice 8.0 (Betas)
COLLABORATION
ConclusionsEven a modest server (Intel P4 @ 3GHz with 2GB RAM) can run up to 15 clients
OpenOffice/StarOffice serious MS Office replacements
Fedora Linux offers an extremely user friendly environment
WINE can compensate in the (few) cases where proprietary software is not available on Linux!
Sharing The IdeasThe ‘apoplous’ web site went online early 2004Early 2005 moved to ‘Moodle’May 2005 released the first ‘OpenEducation’ Report
OpenEducation Reports
Bimonthly
Great comments from many sources!
Updating with new content and new columnists!
Reporting Research
Published two books:Using Windows/MS Office (100 pages)Using Linux/OpenOffice (261 pages)Both can be downloaded from www.apoplous.org
Year 2: 2005- 2006
4 Schools
1 school equipped with SunRay 170s
3 schools equipped with Intel-based PCs used as Thin Clients with Fedora Core/LTSP
Classroom of Tomorrow
March 2006 - June 2006 (Pilot Study)
September 2006 - June 2007 (Implementation)
1 SunRay per student
Interactive whiteboard
‘Digital Days’
Digital Curriculum through an LMS
How it works:
L.O.
LMS
StudentsContent
Forums
GradesParent
sTeacher
Q & A 1
Are SunRays/ Thin Clients the Ultimate Solution for school computer labs?
Answer:
YES!
Q & A 2
Are SunRays / Thin Clients the Ultimate Solution for the ‘one client per child’ school?
Answer:
NO!
Why Not?
Too restrictive!
Too many cables!
Still rely too heavily on the keyboard for input!
A look into the future...
Fastest ‘Personal’ Computer:Apple PowerMac G5 ‘Quad’
21.0 Gigaflops
Sony Playstation 32 TerraFlops!
“The Power of a Warehouse full of
standard PCs in a box that fits on the top
of your desk”
Thanks for participating!