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On 20/08/2012, at 2:07 PM, jokay Wollongong <[email protected]> wrote: > Access challenges very much varies from State to State, and I can happily > report things are getting a little easier as edu departments begin to finally > embrace virtual worlds and games a little more eg. tafe projects like Virtual > Enterprise @ jokaydiaGRID and the PLANE project - a NSW PD program for > teachers which includes some opensim. However it is still probably the big > risk factor to consider. The other is hardware..there are alot of year 9 > laptops out there that WILL NOT run opensim. ;( > > Having said that, things are much easier in VIC than NSW or QLD, but still a > bit of a challenge. Solving port issues via viewer dev would indeed be a huge > win, but a big challenge considering how wedded to port 80 and powerpoint > alot edu IT departments are! ;) I also suspect that options for running it on > SOAS or a local school server would also be very valuable. > > regards, > jokay > > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Lisa Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, that helps me a lot to see that it's possible, and to be able to > point the ABC at it too. If we used part of the budget, as Maria suggested to > me, to develop an open source web viewer for OpenSim, would that help you > too? That would get around the ports issue, wouldn't it? Port access is controlled by at the school/ uni network level and so developing another viewer will not help in this regard. Plenty of universities already allow the ports needed by SL/opensim to be used. For high schools it will be have to be managed through the school's participation program. Chris > Since this would all be run via the ABC's online education portal, you would > think they would be able to arrange things with schools to get around the > firewall of doom. That must be part of their plan already, otherwise they > won't get very far! > > Cheers, > > Lisa > > .. > -users
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