Rural School Cloud Project
The Cloud Computing for School Networking and Learning project aims to improve the quality of learning and teaching in small rural / dispersed schools in Europe, by exploring, adapting and improving several innovative European ICT based methodologies, that allow to respond to the different needs that teachers face when designing their classes, as well as in improving their professional competences.
We have developed a technological solution that allow rural schools to work together in an online desktop sharing documents, resources and tools.
Rural School Cloud technical solution is hosted in a cloud infrastructure at the Galician Supercomputing Centre, and includes a number of software solutions which provide the access to all project users through a web browser. Our piloting shared cloud desktop (a virtual Operative System) is a web platform built from different Open Software (OS) tools and software packages. It looks like a regular offline desktop where you can access menus and programs, drag and drop files, etc. This solution takes into account the need to find a very friendly “usable” solution for both teachers and students by incorporating a very graphical, familiar approach to its user design. Technology should be used to improve the way teachers apply their educational strategies, not getting in the way and requiring too much effort to obtain advantages.
This solution is delivered as a Virtual Machine fully configured and ready to run.
You can download our software and install it in your system easily.
Please visit the project's site in http://rsc-project.eu for more information.