10th and 11th Grade high school students at the American International School in Saigon, Vietnam, are using PCLinuxOS in the classroom. They are even learning how to use the command line.

This summer, my Vietnamese Immersion Students at the American International School will spend about three weeks learning how to touch type in my computer class with Tux Typing, an open source typing tutorial program.

For Barcamp Saigon 1, I decided to give an ad hoc presentation of using Ubuntu Linux with my students at a Vietnamese international school.

With just less than one month left of class, I decided to see if my 8th Grade students at the American International School in Saigon would be interested in learning Linux. I am glad I tried because these kids seemed to be having a lot of fun.

Today is the first day my Vietnamese high school students started to use the Python Programming Language. I wanted to give them a two week introduction to Python during the remaining days of the school year.

Vietnamese users turning to Mozilla’s Firefox to offer then security got a shock yesterday when the company revealed that the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was contaminated with malicious code and that this had been available for download for three months.

Vietnamese students learn how to use the GIMP wth PClinuxOS.

In arresting, trying, and sentencing Hoang, the Vietnamese government has criminalized free expression as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and guaranteed by articles 35, 50, 53 and 69 of the Vietnamese Constitution.

About three weeks ago, I was given a new group of Teen Immersion students to work with at the American International School in Saigon, Vietnam. Since I am their Computer Science teacher, you guessed it, I had them using Linux Mint during the first week of class.