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>From: "Daniel Bramer" <address@hidden> >Organization: UIUC >Keywords: 200306252057.h5PKvFLd011354 IDV installers Hi Dan- >I just did another IDV demo for the NCSA-REVITALISE summer workshop. I had >about 10-12 teachers each with their own laptops working on the IDV as I led >them through creating 2- and 3-D vizs from an old eta nc file I found on >motherlode. They took to it very well. After walking them through some of the >features (and most of them didn't need too much hand-holding) they were making > >their own viz's. I saw someone create a terrain isosurface and another >learning (the hard way) about the differences between surface pressure and >reduced sea level pressure. Cool. >Anyway, it was a very positive experience for all of them. They were using >1.2GHz Pent. 4 laptops with 512MB RAM. and were able to load all 11 eta time >steps for quite a few fields (kudos to the memory handling). good machines help. >Finaly, more than one teacher told me that they will be using it in their >classroom when they have the opportunity, and I was wondering how you would >feel about allowing me or someone else from NCSA burn CD's with the current >Windows self-installer for IDV for them to take back to their schools. I have no problems with this as long as you are the point of contact for any and all questions they have. If they are K-12 teachers, we can't support them directly. > From what I can remember, the installers are only available to those who are >registered at my.unidata.ucar.edu. Is this still true? Either way, I would >understand if you'd prefer / require them to register, but maybe some of them >would have a hard time downloading that file -- just want your thoughts before > >I talk to the NCSA people again. It's freely available, so I don't think this is a problem. Thanks for pushing the IDV. Don