Dreamcard Roadster in the future???

[Marty Billingsley]

Judy Perry <jperryl at ecs.fullerton.edu> writes:
>
> Yup.  It's the 'web ueber alles' mentality that is unfortunately
> all-too-prevalent, especially in education.
>
> I would like to see it done just so that we can say so.  Then let it be.
> Get back to our standalones!!! ;-)

For many teachers, especially in public schools, installing
standalone apps is an impossibility.  The only way to allow many
of these teachers access to new "software" is through the web.
And the appropriate plugin would already have to be installed --
the teachers won't have permissions to install *anything*.
Hence my suggestion that RR try to piggyback off the shockwave
plugin.  (Granted, I have no idea whether that's technologically
feasible or not.)

I'm so lucky that I maintain the computer lab I teach in, but I
see a lot of public school teachers with their hands tied.  If
we'd like to make software for these teachers to use with their
students, we'll have more success if it's web-deliverable.

  - marty

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Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools