Hi Alejandro, I've been in computer labs where computers wouldn't have an (accessible) CD-rom drive or USB port. Computers in offices may not allow limited users to start an exe that's not installed in the programmes folder on the network.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Get the extIco2Png external for LiveCode here http://qery.us/1w6 On 28 mrt 2012, at 22:55, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi all, > > I have read the messages in this thread and please, correct me > if I understand wrong: > > 1) Too many students and teachers are too "inexperienced" (not dumb) > to use the available computer educational tools in their institution. > > 2) Most of the digital educational applications aim to teach using only > the lower (or lowest) skills available to all participants. > > Surely, I am interpreting all this information in the wrong way because > my conclusion is that education (as described here) is effectively dumbing > down > all the participants (teachers and students alike). > > How many of you are aware that you could run Livecode (including all > externals and Quicktime) from a Portable device as a USB pendrive > or Secure Digital Card or even from media as a Rewritable CD or DVD? > > No plugin or installation. Just click and run: > > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Running-LiveCode-and-Quicktime-as-virtual-applications-td4411011.html#a4430008 > > In this computer lab: > http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2733273854751.2150939.1344437396&type=3 > the IT manager used Metacard Free Starter Kit to create exams > that students run from a CD. He opened the exam (a stack), take out > the CD and repeat the procedure in each machine. In this way, the exams > only runs in RAM and the students could not copy or save to the > computer. It works fine for him for many years... > > Al _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
