> > I find it very disturbing that educators are even considering creating > a learning environment where students are restricted in their > learning! That is just another step back to the middle ages... Henry, > I very much appreciate that people use the platform on which they can > perform their work most efficient; do not disallow your students the > same choice! > I a not sure I understand what you are saying Egon. If there is eg no Jmol on e.g. an iPad or Kindle , is that extending choice? It could be viewed as a lack of choice, ie if you want the features of Jmol on a mobile device, your choice is currently restricted just to Android.
I mentioned in my post standards, ie epub2, epub3. There are widely available readers for these on all platforms (well, not yet epub3, but it will come). Again, I am not sure where the lack of choice there is? WebGL is expected shortly on both types, again no lack of choice. Solutions based on e.g. HTML5/WebGL would run on both platforms, offering choice. My post was meant to outline options, and according to your priorities you would be free to make your choice. My own teaching notes are actually available for all three types of tablet, as well as all desktop browsers. Where I do worry is if the choice you have is restricted by the publishers of the software. Thus, no access to the data underlying the program (because it is sandboxed, or held on a server) is in my opinion a very serious lack of choice, restricting the options the student has. This lack of choice is what we have to guard against. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
