[K12OSN] TuxPaint 0.9.16 vs. KidPix a teachers perspective

[john]

Sound advice indeed!

John

On 12/13/06, John Lucas <mrjohnlucas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While it is OK to have the same account on multiple standalone machines,
> it
> will not be OK to have one login for 20 users on the same machine (i.e.
> with
> LTSP).
>
> This is not a problem with TuxPaint (as the original post implied), but
> with
> the administrative decisions that were made in setting up the lab. Logins
> for
> very young students are tough, but ignoring the operational assumptions of
> the OS is going to cause myriad problems (not just with TuxPaint). If/when
> you make the change to LTSP consider kiosk-style accounts with one account
> per *terminal*, this would at least eliminate having to create/maintain
> accounts for every student.
>
> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 18:15, john wrote:
> > Thanks for the feedback. We have the lab in question set up using
> windows.
> > In this age group (k-5) students login with a  user-name based on the
> > teacher for that class. So all 28 kids log in as "smith" for example.
> > Inside of the "smith" folder on a network share called k:\Smith is
> another
> > directory with each students name on it. Students drop work in that
> > directory. This isn't the ideal set up, but for various historical
> reasons
> > that is the convention we use. AFAIK because you can't "save-as" you
> can't
> > name  the image to differentiate it from other kids work. Short of
> > providing logins for all the k-3 set who generally use this I don't see
> a
> > way around it.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > As a side note, my goal is to replace this lab with an LTSP set up, but
> I
> > need to have analogs for those things which are favorites. KidPix and
> Type
> > to learn are big ones. Has anyone ever tried to run these under
> cross-over
> > office?
> >
> > John
> >
> > On 12/12/06, Samps <samps at unplugd.com> wrote:
> > > Quoting john  <lists.john at gmail.com>:
> > > >> - Kids can't save to their [own] file - every station would have
> > >
> > > everyone's
> > >
> > > > art - and can be deleted by anyone
> > > > - There isn't an import option to bring in pictures saved from the
> > >
> > > internet
> > >
> > > > or a digital camera.
> > >
> > > Have a look at the 'savedir=' option in the doko, it'll do the trick:
> > >
> > > http://tuxpaint.org/docs/html/OPTIONS.html
> > >
> > >
> > > Samps
> > >
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