tutech

You seem to be looking for a VNC type of solution rather than RDP.

I've been evaluating different tablets for our early childhood classrooms recently. In America, early childhood is 3 years old to 1st grade (up to 7 years old). Our parent fundraising team is anticipating raising a bunch of money and want to spend it on tablets specifically for those grade level classrooms. I don't know what grade levels or age groups Junior school is for you, so this information may or may not be relevant. I bought the following second-hand eBay tablets: full size iPad 4th generation, iPad mini, Nexus 10, Nexus 7, and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Personally, I own 2 Android tablets at my home - a Nexus 7 and a Motorola Xoom, and they serve my tablet computing desires just fine. I'll admit I was a little biased toward Android going into this evaluation. However, my findings surprised me a bit. The quantity, and more importantly the quality, of the apps available specifically for the age groups that I'm evaluating for are causing me to have to recommend going with Apple. There are many apps about learning shapes, colors, alphabet, phonics, reading, math, etc. available on Android but compared to their counterparts on the Apple appstore they do not impress. Many are buggy and don't work well, many are free but feature obtrusive ads that will get tapped on by accident by children of this age group and that'll cause a disruption of the learning and confusion on how to return to the app. Still others are "free" but require in-app purchases to unlock functionality to make the app complete or useful, which I find to be a particularly shady practice that I do not appreciate... especially when they do not mention anything of the sort in the app description on the play store. The other strike against Android tablets for the early childhood age group is the fact that the navigation bar at the bottom of the tablet is always visible on-screen. While I find that a very handy UE and UI element as an adult, a child will end up tapping the back, home, and app switcher buttons by accident causing interruption and confusion. There are apps made to overcome this, like LearnPad, but I haven't been too satisfied with any of them. LearnPad is great, but it is overwhelmingly geared for UK schools and does not make a good use case in my American school. I'm really not looking forward to the cost, the Apple iPads are going to cost roughly twice as much per unit as an Android tablet. Not to mention, I'm going to have to invest in a Mac mini server to be able to manage them effectively... further increasing the cost. Being that this is supposed to be an educational tool, rather than the marketing tool that I believe the parent fundraising team see it as, I have to go with the product that can provide the most educational value. I was going to recommend the iPad mini to save some money, but then our early childhood director pointed out to me that little kids need things to be big in order to work them easily. She's right, take a look at worksheets that are for young kids and all of the lettering is big and everything is large, even the lines on paper for little kids are huge. So, it looks like we need to get the full sized iPads.... sigh. For the older kids though, the Galaxy Note 10.1 looks like it could be awesome.

Okay. Let me re-phrase. They are pretty poor at keyboard-based content creation.

This is exactly what I'm trying to explain to my school administration. Tablets are great for consuming content, but pretty poor at creating content. You really need a physical keyboard to get any kind of Office work done well or with any reasonable speed, on-screen keyboards take away from your workspace, are error-prone and slow to use. For that reason, they have for the most part heeded my advice and we are only looking at deploying tablets, either Android or iPads remains to be decided, for early childhood classrooms (3 to 7 years old) where content creation is pretty minimal since the students are just beginning reading and writing at the end of early childhood.

I've just been researching using icacls for my server rsync backup script that I'm writing. I won't write the command for you, but rather direct you to the Technet article (since I have it in an open tab right now anyway) which thoroughly explains all of the switches: Icacls Also, worth noting is that Server 2003 SP2 icacls.exe does not support the inheritance bit, and there is a hotfix to apply to get that supported properly: The Icacls.exe utility that is included with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 does not support the inheritance bit

I just changed my instance in IIS to run on port 80 and that did the trick.

I'm successfully using 1.0.9 on my one teacher computer and the 30 student computers in my computer lab without any network issues.

I just looked and I see the last time the compiled version of 1.0.10 was updated on the sourceforge website was 7/28/10, and I did test out that version and it did what I described in my original post.

Looks interesting. Do you know how much it costs?

There's finally a new release of iTALC classroom management and monitoring software out! I tried in vain last week to set this up in my computer lab. Every time that I install the master application on my teacher's computer it freezes up the mouse. When I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to get to task manager, it is active then... but when I start task manager and get back to regular explorer, its frozen once again. Same deal with the clients that I tested as well. I love the program and the fact that it's free, but this is obviously a deal-breaker for me. I'm running XP Pro SP3 on all machines with all the latest windows updates, and USB keyboards and USB optical mice. All client machines are Dell Optiplex 740s and the master is an HP Compaq dc7800p. All machines are on the same subnet, members of the same Windows domain, all connected to the same Dell 100Mbit managed switch. Has anyone else encountered this with the 1.0.10 version and if so, have you been able to find a work-around for it? In the mean time, I am putting 1.0.9 back on until this is resolved.