Allegheny first-years dive into Fedora

“This semester, a colleague and I have been running a parallel
set of freshman seminar courses. Darren Miller (a photography
professor in the Art Department) is teaching a course titled Art
and Activism, and mine is titled Technology and Activism. These
topical courses are part of an Allegheny student’s introduction to
writing and presentation skills—and we decided to take that
to another level this semester. Over the course of fourteen weeks,
we’ve introduced them to the Creative Commons, blogging, and open
source software in the context of social change, trying to get them
ready for their dive into the Fedora project.

“Today, 42 first-year students at Allegheny College were thrown
into the deep end of the pool on the Fedora project. Given that
these are first-year students with no particular background in
computing, we’ve worked closely with Mel Chua to get these students
plugged into the Marketing and Design teams.”

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