David wrote: > You did not say which sage sites were blocked by a firewall.
I have not specifically checked to see which of the high schools we are serving are blocking SAGE servers. My observation was that each of these schools had different website access policies and that it was difficult to have these policies changed. Beyond this, we are running into the issue of student homework and tests being stored on a server that is not under control of the school. This is definitely a challenging problem to solve :-) > Honestly, I think if you were able to write a SAGE tutorial for > middle and high school students then I this would serve as > evidence that SAGE sites should not be blocked and that > SAGE is useful for fulfilling the mission of the school system. > My impression is that school administrators almost speak > a different language. Assuming that the site blocking and external student data issues were solved, the existing notebook paradigm is inadequate because students are able to see each other's work. I think that the addition of something like the bookshelf paradigm I discussed earlier might help solve this problem. > This is a great solution and the only drawback is that such a > live cd should be maintained. In fact, I believe that a live SAGE CD > has already been created by Alfredo Portes > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/alfredo/ > Can you look at that and see if it work for you? I download a copy of the sage-live-server-1.6.iso file and burned it 3 times using 2 different machines, but I receive an error which I tried to boot from them. I also tried booting the .iso file in a vmware livecd appliance, but I received the same error. Perhaps the .iso was corrupted during download and a thought here would be to include a hash of the file on the download site so that its integrity could be checked :-) I did read the README.txt file for the livecd and its philosophy was similar to what I had in mind. The SAGE server is inside the school's firewall so it avoids the website blocking and external student data storage problem. Now, if the "students can see each other's homework" problem could be solved, that would be great! Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
