As we explore our next steps in Skills to Performance we discuss Sugar on a Stic

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As we explore our next steps in Skills to Performance we discuss Sugar on a Stick (SOAS) as an innovative educational solution for students. Ethical behavior and trust are a huge concern for parents of small children. That need assurances that their children will be reasonably safe and protected from the dangerous elements on the Internet. While discussing the features and benefits of SOAS in a letter to the parents, also discuss what solutions are available to filter content to keep students from accessing sites which may be harmful to them.

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Dear Parents,

Sugar on a Stick (SOAS) is a Fedora based operating system which provides customized computing environment in a thumbdrive. The stick is similar to a pendrive or a stick which can be easily deployed to any computer/laptop at home/office/school. It is available for free and does not harm your computer.

Students/Childern can now use this stick for their personal work or homework , for this they can use existing machine and also not being allowed to access any data of the existing machine. The stick acts as a self contained sugar environment which students can boot from USB thumbdrives and run easily at home or school.It has a simple and colorful interface and an open architecture with built-in collaboration.

It allows you to store child's data in a stick without touching the computer's hard disk. Also learner account/stick swapping can be done without rebooting.

It saves all collaborative web browsing sessions of the past week, which can be querired by teacher/parent. Content filterig for preventing a child from surfing harmful sites is by default included.

Also you can configure a custom DNS server protecting the network against malicious websites.

Hope you found this information on SOAS as useful.

Thanks.

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