Josh pointed out the more heavily used of the two programs, and that's the one we started with. This summer we added Fathom, and use Vernier Sensor probes to collect data which then will be analyzed with Fathom also from Key.
Fathom comes with *lots* of data, but we find that people (teachers and students) respond very well to analyzing data which they themselves have collected. Our project web site is http://scaleupstem.ncsu.edu Hope this helps. --henry P.S. We find that Photoshop runs reasonably well via the VCL. The problem we face is that Adobe is starting to ask very high license fees for cloud delivery. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David, > > Geometer's Sketchpad is used by many of the K-12 schools that utilize > our (NCSU's) VCL system: > > http://www.keycurriculum.com/products/sketchpad > > Josh > > On Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:22:37 AM David Chan wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> We are running a VCL pilot for a couple of post-secondaries here in >> Alberta, Canada. We are trying to also engage a K-12 school district to >> participate in the pilot, but are having a hard time finding a good use >> case for them. That is, we are not sure what is a good candidate piece of >> software to offer through VCL. Many of the schools use Google Drive and >> other than that, they usually suggest Photoshop and various 3D programs >> that don't run particularly well without graphics support. >> >> What have other people offered to the K-12 sector through VCL? Do you have >> any ideas on what might be useful for them? Any ideas and pointers would be >> greatly appreciated! >> >> Thanks, >> -- >> David Chan >> Cybera Inc. <http://www.cybera.ca> > - -- > - ------------------------------- > Josh Thompson > VCL Developer > North Carolina State University > > my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu > > All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which > are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public > Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlDUX4MACgkQV/LQcNdtPQP/FQCfX3u6yUaXiuwRDmrBZclX2czU > FksAn1oHn2EG/J+bgG7HhqpoyiHasxFY > =ciAt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
