Freedom to build
Open Learning by plakboek At a Melbourne school, the students were caught vandalizing and altering their school page on Wikipedia. Rather than just blindly blocking their Internet or school-wide access to Wikipedia, the students negotiated the repair duty of researching and updating the school page. The task was supervised by their parents and signed off by the college administration. You can spot their handiwork on the Wiki awards page as was noted as an example of the secondary school wiki entry for 2006.
At our college, we don't block Wikipedia but have made available a local copy of Wikipedia. We encourage its use as a first, fast and free version of the online version, adding network and Moodle links on our school Intranet. It works well by cutting out the space wasting padding, and multimedia eyecandy bundled into commercial encyclopedias.
If you are interested, here are some torrent download links to get you started
Our library sell these ROMs for these open source resources for a few coins (along with Open Office and other software). Next year we are going to build our first freedom toaster (self-contained, computer-based, 'Bring 'n Burn' facility) so students can bake and make their own copies. What a good idea.
http://www.freedomtoaster.org