Hi Edgar, I'm cc'ing my response to sage-edu and a person at Sun Microsystems. See below.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Edgar Jasso <eja...@northseattle.edu> wrote: > Hello William... > I am sure you met a lot of people at the AMA conference this weekend, so I > believe I must "re-introduce" myself. > > I am in my first year teaching at North Seattle Community College, and was > on your course on sage this Friday in Ellensburg. Then on Saturday I told > you that I was trying to push the college to use Sage for a new math-cs > course we are starting to develop. In a few weeks, if necessary you'll hear > more on that. > Anyway...my question now is pointed in another direction. > I am teaching a Vector Calculus class this quarter, and a couple of > pre-calc sections, and today I was messing around with what kind of cool > stuff I can show the students using sage.. And there some pretty cool stuff! > At least using the @interact feature seems pretty cool. > > So although I have sage running in my office, at home I am accessing via the > web to your server. My questions are: > is the intention of this web-access feature that everyone can access sage > via the web? My concern is, can I (should I) tell ALL my students to open an > account on your server just to play around with the worksheets I create for > them? Or should I wait to have a local install on a server at my College and > make the students access that one? A few months ago I would have so "no, it's just for limited testing". But Sun Microsystems and the National Science Foundation have both been very supportive providing us with hardware and other resources to support the public Sage notebooks. So the answer to your question right now is: yes, you should feel free to tall all your students that they are welcome to sign up for and use sagenb.org. If they report nontrivial problems with speed/availability, contact me again and let me know. One of my new goals is that the public notebook servers can support a nontrivial load. > My next question has to do with this also... There is a State Math > Community College Conference in a few weeks, I do not think I am ready to > give talk on what we can do for our course on sage, perhaps next year, but I > will be at least informally talking with other instructors about it, and > sharing whatever I have learned by then. My question again is, when I tell > them how cool sage is, and how it is easy to use, should I encourage them to > make a local install or to create accounts to your server? (basically same > question as above, but with a much larger potential of users ). You can certainly feel free to encourage them to make accounts on sagenb.org. It's really easy for them to do compared to installing in locally, and avoids frustration they might run into with doing a local install. So please encourage them to make accounts on sagenb.org, and if they want to make more serious use of Sage, then definitely download and install it. By the way, other people have written to me about that State Math Community College and suggested perhaps I'll get invited to speak about Sage next year (it's too late this year). -- William > ok, great... > > Take care, > > -- > Edgar Jasso > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
