I have started a 3D construction unit with a grade 9/10 technology
class and was planning to have them inport their objects into
wonderland running on their own local machines. The students have
administrative access to their laptops (macbook pros) but have not
been given terminal access. The tech director at my school is not
willing to bend on this. Can anyone suggest a way that I can have
students launch OWL without them having to open a terminal?
> I have started a 3D construction unit with a grade 9/10 technology > class and was planning to have them inport their objects into > wonderland running on their own local machines. The students have > administrative access to their laptops (macbook pros) but have not > been given terminal access. The tech director at my school is not > willing to bend on this. Can anyone suggest a way that I can have > students launch OWL without them having to open a terminal?
Why not have a single server that all students connect to using just a client? In a class I am teaching now, I'm having the students drag and drop in their models, set up their scene, and then save it as a subsnapshot. This way they can delete the scene from the communal space and reimport it as necessary.
Another approach is to give each student their own area to work in and use placemarks to navigate between the spaces. I think you're going to have a headache if each student is running their own server.
Nicole.
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On Feb 19, 2012, at 7:25 PM, teacherben <b...@teacherben.com> wrote:
> I have started a 3D construction unit with a grade 9/10 technology > class and was planning to have them inport their objects into > wonderland running on their own local machines. The students have > administrative access to their laptops (macbook pros) but have not > been given terminal access. The tech director at my school is not > willing to bend on this. Can anyone suggest a way that I can have > students launch OWL without them having to open a terminal?
FWIW, students can double-click on the Wonderland.jar file to start
the wonderland server running on localhost, and connect to it using a
browser pointed at localhost:8080. However, they're unlikely to ever
be able to stop the server without terminal access (unless they log
out or shutown). Furthermore, the wonderland server will be running
with admin privileges, not recommended (in my book). Personally, I
wouldn't dream of giving students admin access, but I would give them
terminal access. I wonder what his/her justification is?
B
On Feb 20, 3:25 am, teacherben <b...@teacherben.com> wrote:
> I have started a 3D construction unit with a grade 9/10 technology
> class and was planning to have them inport their objects into
> wonderland running on their own local machines. The students have
> administrative access to their laptops (macbook pros) but have not
> been given terminal access. The tech director at my school is not
> willing to bend on this. Can anyone suggest a way that I can have
> students launch OWL without them having to open a terminal?
I wonder what his justification is too. He chose not to explain.
I figured they could start with a double click and maybe I will try
that today and just get them to reboot when they are done.
I don't have access to a server to run OWL, but a parent just donated
a bunch of old machines from her office that I might be able to sort
through and put something together that can handle multiple users.
I figured that if I showed some students how to run their own server
something interesting might come out of it. You never know.
Thanks guys.
On Feb 21, 5:22 pm, Bernard <bern...@essex.ac.uk> wrote:
> FWIW, students can double-click on the Wonderland.jar file to start
> the wonderland server running on localhost, and connect to it using a
> browser pointed at localhost:8080. However, they're unlikely to ever
> be able to stop the server without terminal access (unless they log
> out or shutown). Furthermore, the wonderland server will be running
> with admin privileges, not recommended (in my book). Personally, I
> wouldn't dream of giving students admin access, but I would give them
> terminal access. I wonder what his/her justification is?
> B
> On Feb 20, 3:25 am, teacherben <b...@teacherben.com> wrote:
> > I have started a 3D construction unit with a grade 9/10 technology
> > class and was planning to have them inport their objects into
> > wonderland running on their own local machines. The students have
> > administrative access to their laptops (macbook pros) but have not
> > been given terminal access. The tech director at my school is not
> > willing to bend on this. Can anyone suggest a way that I can have
> > students launch OWL without them having to open a terminal?
It should be interesting of a student figures out that if he can get the right executable onto the file system he'll *have* a terminal. Like Beanshell or jEdit, ferinstance.
> It should be interesting of a student figures out that if he can get the > right executable onto the file system he'll *have* a terminal. Like > Beanshell or jEdit, ferinstance.
try this. Download the file at [1]; be sure to save it with extension
'.command', edit as instructed in the file, then try double clicking
it. It will try to start a terminal containing the wonderland process,
so it will be interesting to see what happens!
> I wonder what his justification is too. He chose not to explain.
> I figured they could start with a double click and maybe I will try
> that today and just get them to reboot when they are done.
> I don't have access to a server to run OWL, but a parent just donated
> a bunch of old machines from her office that I might be able to sort
> through and put something together that can handle multiple users.
> I figured that if I showed some students how to run their own server
> something interesting might come out of it. You never know.
> Thanks guys.
> On Feb 21, 5:22 pm, Bernard <bern...@essex.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Well, that seems a very odd setup.
> > FWIW, students can double-click on the Wonderland.jar file to start
> > the wonderland server running on localhost, and connect to it using a
> > browser pointed at localhost:8080. However, they're unlikely to ever
> > be able to stop the server without terminal access (unless they log
> > out or shutown). Furthermore, the wonderland server will be running
> > with admin privileges, not recommended (in my book). Personally, I
> > wouldn't dream of giving students admin access, but I would give them
> > terminal access. I wonder what his/her justification is?
> > B
> > On Feb 20, 3:25 am, teacherben <b...@teacherben.com> wrote:
> > > I have started a 3D construction unit with a grade 9/10 technology
> > > class and was planning to have them inport their objects into
> > > wonderland running on their own local machines. The students have
> > > administrative access to their laptops (macbook pros) but have not
> > > been given terminal access. The tech director at my school is not
> > > willing to bend on this. Can anyone suggest a way that I can have
> > > students launch OWL without them having to open a terminal?
