04.24.07
Every School Should Have Tuxpaint Installed…
Here is an account of one self-confessed “geek” fourth-grade-teacher-turned-tech-director experience with an EDUbuntu Live CD, which he describes as “a bigger deal than Windows versus Macintosh discussions”.
Every school should have TuxPaint installed on its computers, for learners of all ages. It’s powerful and free. What is holding back the implementation of software solutions like TuxPaint in many schools is not just knowledge and awareness of the availability of these tools, but a mindset that fallaciously believes schools should only run software programs that are either commercial, from Redmond, or both. Our mindsets and the mindsets of many of our leaders are holding us back in many cases more than anything else.
Tuxpaint is indeed a fantastic piece of software, and is probably the most popular software on the EDU-Nix Dual Mode CD. Head over to tuxpaint.org to check out more on the project, there are Windows, Mac OSX and Linux versions available.