My friend Prof. Leocádio, UNI-BH University teacher and a well known Open Source enthusiast in my province (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and country gave me the hint of this amazing piece of software. He published some articles on his blog (sorry, portuguese only) giving some tips on how to properly install and use it.
On iTALC website, the project describes it selfs as:
iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!
Some of the features are:
- see what’s going on in computer-labs by using overview mode and make snapshots
- remote-control computers to support and help other people
- show a demo (either in fullscreen or in a window) – the teacher’s screen is shown on all student’s computers in realtime
- lock workstations for moving undivided attention to teacher
- send text-messages to students
- powering on/off and rebooting computers per remote
- remote logon and logoff and remote execution of arbitrary commands/scripts
- home-schooling – iTALC’s network-technology is not restricted to a subnet and therefore students at home can join lessons via VPN-connections just by installing iTALC client
As an image worth more then thousands of words, check out their screenshots sections.
Thanks for Prof. Leocádio for this tip and thanks for the iTALC Team for the amazing work!
PS: Check this post also in Portuguese! Confira este post também em Português!
[...] Obs: Confira este post em inglês! Check this post also in English! [...]
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julho 28th, 2008
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
sandrar
setembro 10th, 2009