I am in independent study and I am doing stuff about Linux. My teacher wants me to find some things for his class to do that were fun, and would help them understand Linux better. Right now all I got is to show them Compiz because Wobbly Windows is cool. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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I am not quite sure of what sort of activities are you looking for. My suggestion is having them mess with the command shell for simple operations like reading a file on the terminal or moving through directories and opening particular programs.
Again, I don't what sort of class and what level of expertise and competences do they have, I may be talking nonsense here.
Create a bootable usb with unetbootin and install it from the 'apt-get' repository.
Conky is another cool linux addon to teach them. Little bit of coding too if they are into modding the UI of it. Again install it from the apt-get command line.
yes defenetly show them Compiz at 1st.
2nd compare security
3rd explain why people like linux(freedom to do anything with your system)
4th show them simple besh commands
5th explain unix, linux, mac similaritis differences and their history simple (do not tell them this one is better or that one if someone, jumps up and starts saying that this is better or that, shut him up and tell him let everyone make there on mind)
6th tell them how the www runs on linux and anytime they go to web mostly they are connecting to linux computer which hosts web sites or other services
have them ssh into pc's and move files it was fun when I did the cmd prompt for a little :)