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It's very easy to teach in a generic way, even using a Windows / MS Office based system that's standard fare in most schools. Foe example Widows comes equipped with 'Wordpad', 'Notepad' and the DOS based 'Edit' as standard utilities. Add this to MS-Word and you've got a spread of four text-processing applications to compare and contrast. ...five if you count the original DOS based 'Edlin' programme! What I do is get students to compare and contrast the menu structure and common functionality of all these programmes. To any students who later come across Linux what they quickly realise is that the way this works is basically the same, and their generic skills are eminently transferable. Trouble is many schools simply ditch or deny access to all of these text-processing applications except the full version 'MS-Word', which is a confusing nightmare for a new or timid user. David Bowles Education Support / TeacherLab >> Perhaps the first point in any linux tuition should be "If you come here >> to be spoon fed think again !" but then it is depressing how many people >> still want to be taught by route. > The first point is in what do they need to do, but one can teach > generically - teach how to process words rather than how to use Word, and > at the end the student should meet a new WP and see that it is essentially > the same thing as they have learned. > Xerox invented much of the GUI, after all. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.