Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-28 Thread Vincent Knight
TJ I've spoken to you about what I do before but I'll add it to this awesome thread just in case it's helpful. - First of all with regards to the 'college that is considering adopting Sage full scale', we have just done this ourselves. Our students Maple licenses are still running this year (the f

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-26 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
Great thread! I've been using SAGE for several years at the High School level. Here's a sample of what I've done: Last year I had my students use worksheets on an online server all year learning Python in an intro CS course. Those students are now in AP CompSci doing well with Java. Sample W

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-26 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/24/13 10:02 PM, Theron Hitchman wrote: I am posting this in several places, I apologize for hitting some of you repeatedly. I am soon going to run a workshop for a college that is considering adopting Sage full scale (they have an expensive Mathematica license, and want to switch to someth

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:58 PM, michel paul wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:44 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 PM, michel paul >> wrote: > > >> >> > What web browser are you guys using? > > > Chrome. If I find them using IE I scold them. : ) :-)I just check

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread michel paul
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:44 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 PM, michel paul > wrote: > > > What web browser are you guys using? > Chrome. If I find them using IE I scold them. : ) > I hadn't realized that you were connecting from a really flaky -- > I guess that co

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 PM, michel paul wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:30 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> For what it's worth -- I don't know when you were testing, > > > Well, today. It's weird, even very simple things can inexplicably hang. What is the ping time listed in the upper rig

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread michel paul
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:30 PM, William Stein wrote: > For what it's worth -- I don't know when you were testing, Well, today. It's weird, even very simple things can inexplicably hang. However - it's definitely way better than it used to be. Last year a student created a local network that w

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:16 PM, michel paul wrote: > I teach at the high school level, and I'm finding a combination of cloud > accounts and the single cell server pretty versatile. It is unfortunately > the case that both tend to drag when used by more than a few students at a > time in our scho

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread michel paul
I teach at the high school level, and I'm finding a combination of cloud accounts and the single cell server pretty versatile. It is unfortunately the case that both tend to drag when used by more than a few students at a time in our school lab, but these days all students can pretty easily access

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi We use standalone installs on Linux desktops and laptops. Is resistant to mobility (students can take it with them after class), and loss of connectivity or low connectivity or power oputages, and there is no central point of failure as a Sage server has. However, sharing of worksheets not as

Re: [sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-25 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 at 10:02PM -0500, Theron Hitchman wrote: > How do you use some version of Sage in a class? Before the cell server, I used notebooks with prepared @interacts. Later I just used the cell server. Mostly for differential equations classes. This is a great use that requires no train

[sage-edu] Help requested: Details of Sage Educational Uses

2013-10-24 Thread Theron Hitchman
I am posting this in several places, I apologize for hitting some of you repeatedly. I am soon going to run a workshop for a college that is considering adopting Sage full scale (they have an expensive Mathematica license, and want to switch to something they can afford.) My target audience has re