[K12OSN] Scholastic Read 180 stumping me

[Levi Kemp]

But if you read enough you'll find that Scholastic believes Web Apps are
unsecured and not capable of supporting the Multimedia experience of
their software. They believe the client server approach is still the
best way to go. Of course by client they mean windows or mac. I don't
they will go full web app with it, which is ridiculous because most of
the use will always be on a local intranet with higher bandwidth than
the Internet. Having it as a web would just make it more universal for
the clients and allow the occasional home user access if you even made
it available externally. Good luck with it though, I've got to wait till
our librarian retires next week to return our copies, she also made a
rash decision without consulting the new librarian or anyone actually.
I'm lucky scholastic is actually going to take it back. The principal
was excited when he heard the library had that much budget left, we're
instead going to buy a mobile smartboard. Much better use of the money
if you ask me.

Levi

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:36 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> I guess your school didn't hear the scathing report on the dearth of
> educational applications that schools are buying that "will improve
> student scores" blah blah...
> 
> The gist of it was "Bah, Humbug. No evidence anywhere that these
> EXPENSIVE reading enhancement applications do anything but liberate the
> schools of cash that could be spent on something else."
> 
> Now for the fun part:
> 
> According to the tech docs the blasted application is designed to be run
> from a Novell SLES9 (Linux!) server for maximum output. The application
> looks like it _should_ be a web app (written using :
> · MySQL--the world's most widely used open source database
> · JBoss--the leading open source standards-compliant J2EE based
> application server
>   implemented in 100% pure Java
> · JVM (Java Virtual Machine)--a software "execution engine" that runs
> Java programs.
>   JBoss, which is written in Java, runs within (on top of) a JVM, and
> the JVM runs within
>   (on top of) an operating system.
> · JRE (Java Runtime Environment)--the technology that allows users to
> run Java
>   applications
> · HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)a protocol used for communication
> between client
>   machines and a server. Most commonly used by web browsers (Internet
> Explorer,
>   Firefox, Netscape) to talk to Web servers.
> · XML (Extensible Markup Language)--a simple and very flexible data
> interchange format
> 
> (cut-n-paste from their docs
> http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/read180/techsupp/pdfs/R180_Tech_Overview_3_07.pdf)
> 
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:44 -0400, Tom Wolfe wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > Our school recently made the rash decision to purchase Scholastic's Read
> > 180 Enterprise Edition. I figured, OK I can deal with this, the K12LTSP
> > workstations can use rdesktop to access the Read 180 client as they do
> > with Scholastic's SRI, etc.
> > 
> > But Scholastic seems to have outwitted me on this one: when logged on via
> > Remote Desktop, I try to launch the Read 180 client and I get an error to
> > the effect of "This system does not meet the requirement for video
> > display". ^&*#^$&#!! Well that's ridiculous. I imagine that somehow Read
> > 180 sees the Remote Desktop video as being inadequate. I contacted
> > Scholastic and all they can say is "Remote Desktop is not one of the
> > supported configurations for our Help Desk".
> > 
> > Anyone have any suggestions on how to outwit this thing? If I can't access
> > Read 180 then it will be a serious blow to the viability of my linux labs,
> > which number 5 right now and total 60 workstations, and growing.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tom Wolfe
> > 
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