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Welcome to the CRISP!

The site for Unix® instructors and aficionados to share ideas.

Welcome to our site. This site is growing, developing, and expanding through your efforts. Here we share our thoughts, ideas, resources, and tools empowering each other to become better Unix instructors.
The Unix community has always shared their ideas, now Unix instructors have the same opportunity.

Free Training from SUN!

The wonderful folks at Sun Microsystems have made their online Solaris training available to the community at no charge! The Sun Academic Initiative will provide free online training to you and your students! Please check it out, subscribe, and take advantage of this wonderful offer from Sun!


CISCO logo The CRISP has been selected as the learning community for the CISCO Network Academy Unix instructors. We invite you to share your experiences, knowledge, and expertise with the rest of us. I am sure that some of our members would like to teach your curriculum as well. Please feel at home here, you are most welcome.
Your host:   Dr. Tim Gottleber


To anyone who is new to the site, congratulations, you have found us, now please join the mailing list and contribute your ideas and learning objects!

Now you have the opportunity to join the list-serve. Activate the Join Us link and join in our online community.


Y'all asked for a page of links to sites, check out "Web Pages" over in the left, navigation bar. You also asked to be able to rate and recommend text books...check out the "Text Ratings" link.
OK, summer is over and we still need some book reviews. I am sure you folks are reading, so let's share our thoughts.

This has been a busy summer. We have several new resources that will help you teach and learn Unix. Among them are Professor Matloff's tutorial series, Professor Griffin's series of courses from Cabrillo college. These in addition to our current collection of outstanding resources.


Please forward any links to either places we can mirror, or link to, we will just keep making this better and better with your help.

Another way to help us is to contribute your teaching materials to the community. To add your materials to our site, activate the contribution link and follow the instructions on that page.

We can only succeed with your help and support. Welcome to CRISP, it is your site, and we are here for you.


Ken Frazer contributed his complete set of Unix I slides. If you have been waiting for a "Pre-packaged" Unix I class, you can combine Ken's notes with the North Lake Syllabus, first edition, and all you have to write are tests and labs! Thanks Ken!
This link will send you to Ken's Unix I slides.

In addition, Ken has now added his complete set of Unix II slides in both PowerPoint and StarImpress formats! Combining these slides with the Unix II syllabus for North Lake will enable you to offer both Unix I and Unix II and all you will need to do is write the labs and tests. Again, thanks to Ken!! These links take you to Ken's Star Office or Power Point slides for Unix II.

A New Resource

Poking around the Net I ran into the Computer Hope site. They have graciously allowed us to link to their various pages that discuss Unix and Unix commands, the history of both Unix and Linux, some of the Linux/Unix variants, and some useful Unix/Linux resources. If you explore their site a bit, I know you will find really interesting and useful information. We thank Computer Hope for their interest and support. (I have included their links on the links page.)


What is a System Administrator?

Many of us are trying to help our students become system administrators. During that process, most students want to know "What does a system administrator DO?" Here is a partial answer. Please consider this list as a beginning, and let us know what should be on the list that isn't, and what is on the list that doesn't belong. Thanks! The Management

Please send your comments, suggestions, or ideas to: Dr. Tim Gottleber


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