I just found out about Ubermix, and I'm pretty excited about it. It seems to address a lot of the problems that keep computers from having a big impact on schools.
In my school, we are nowhere near a 1:1 environment. However, I think that my students would benefit a lot from having their own persistent computing environment where they can save files and monkey with settings without worrying about sharing this space with other students.
For a long time, I've been eying the Sugar on a Stick project as a solution to this. It puts the Sugar environment from the One Laptop Per Child project on a bootable USB the kid can carry with them from computer to computer.
My questions:
What would be involved with making Ubermix work this way? (doing an install of UM to a flash drive rather than an internal hard disk is easy enough but what other steps could we take to optimize this?)
USB sticks are pretty unreliable. Is it it possible to set up a reliable, easy and quick backup / recovery scheme? Ideally, this would be a system that kids and teachers could operate easily and quickly.
Thoughts>