On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You didn't say if this is a classroom lab (so all of your students will be > using > Sage at once) or a math computer lab for out-of-class homework (so students > will go in at random times, convenient for them). Others can answer your > questions more definitively than I but I think their answer will > depend on the number of > students using Sage at the same time. > >
Both. It is a classroom lab, and students also do their work individually. This is an experimental class, though, and I will have a small group (about 15 students) > > Why do you have to buy a license for VMWare player? I don't use windows, > but my students do and my understanding was that it was free. A few of > my students installed Sage on their windows machines and I think if they > had to pay something they would definitely have told me. Students can have their own version of the player for free in their machines. However, the license says that the free version is for individual, non-commercial, use, and it is not clear to me if installing the player in lab machines would be 'individual, non-commercial use". > > > I've done this with several students. They seem fine with it. > I handed out live Sage CDs that I burned myself and no > one reported problems with it. Ok, thanks, I'll certainly try this. > > > > > 3. Set up a Sage Notebook server. Pros: easy for students to use, > > access their work from anywhere in the world. Cons: have no idea how > > to do it. (I can get help setting up a web server, that is not the > > problem, the question is how to set up Sage and the notebook server. > > The web server, and Sage, would be running in a Ubuntu server). > > > > Yes, will research this. > > > > The only other option I see would be to create user accounts for > > students in the server that runs Ubuntu. I really don't want to think > > about that, however. I never did sysadmin, and don't really want to > > get into it. > > > Actually, ubuntu has a nice gui for that and t is really easy. > It might be worth thinking about for just a few of your students > (if they are computer-savvy and trustworthy enough). > > Please report back on your experiences, especially any problems. I am actually doing this with one student that is helping me with the setup. > Also, out of curiousity, where are you teaching? I teach at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland, OH > > > > > Felipe Martins > > > > > > > > > > > > -- "The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection." -Bertrand Russell L. Felipe Martins Department of Mathematics Cleveland State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
