RM miniBook / Asus eeePC ideas?

[SUMSOnline]

I think that you are right that curriculum is moving VLE/Online - but there are still lots of times when students don't have wireless access - either in rooms in school that are not wireless equipped, or at home. This gives teachers a problem.

 

Luckily (in the absence so far of much linux based mainstream non-generic educational software) there is a lot of scope for instantly available locally installed educational software with the ASUS eeePC - because it has Flash installed in Firefox 'out of the box'. While our stuff runs on VLEs, we have already produced a locally installed version to be run from SD card. I'm sure lots of others will follow.

 

It certainly is a fantastic machine.

 

David

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[linuxgirlie]

Talking about locking it down, as it's running KDE, you can just use kiosk to lock it down, we do that here with our fat Linux clients and nobody has managed to break them yet.

 

Jo

[woody]

Getting back onto how Matt from RM can help here. I have had the Eee to play with for a few days and I really like the simple interface, very similar to what Apple did in their early years with OS 7 onwards.

 

And that is the direction I think the Eee could take a lesson from paerticularly for Education.

 

Matt, I know that you have been interested in the wireless capabilities of the Asus and how to link it in with CC3. But please spare a thought for perhaps other schools who just want to use this as a standalone device. The way forward to build on the current distro is to allow easy password switching to the full desktop, and then have an app which allows easy setup, customization and lock down of the simple interface. File manager and the keyboard shortcut into the console needs to be removed from the simple desktop and there needs to be provision to easily add / remove icons from the tabs, and possibly allow to add new tabs in. To replace filemanager, there could be a 'My Documents' icon under the work tab, and here is where you could do something with linking in to networked documents if required.

 

I'm sure this would be easy enought to do (I'm not a linux guy but would like to be one some day ) However, this would be really useful from primaries upwards, maybe even for home users who want to stop their kids messing about. Perhaps your guys could work with Asus on that one?