I teach esl and am experimenting with using tablets in my classroom for non-textbook company software, i.e. games, educational games and other activities that are probably not originally designed for education but can be useful. I would like to have a server in the class that students can interact with to send and receive files, for right now, but will hopefully find other uses in time if I can find other apps. What is the best way to put together a server for this? I have some other android devices but am thinking that 10 is too many to connect, either with wifi or bluetooth. At this point, processing power is not an issue. I am concerned with bandwidth. Should I find an inexpensive router for this - and connect it to a notebook? Is there any software out there that would let me create my own email system on the "server", let students create their own webpages on the "server", etc?
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Server for 10 Kindle Fires in my classroom
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Milo Willamson
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Weebly is an excellent tool that requires no coding required, you can pretty much get into the web making without any knowledgement of coding. Pretty basic click and type away as it is free, the only complain I did get, was if you pretty much post it up with social media sites, your site will get flooded with traffic.
Had around 200 hits after I just click publish.
That is within a nanosecond, so be careful at that. Otherwise you can pretty much pin it anywhere else without much traffic and site statisics will be down mate.
Cheers. P.S. I used weebly for a few years before, dumping it due to that.
Had around 200 hits after I just click publish.
That is within a nanosecond, so be careful at that. Otherwise you can pretty much pin it anywhere else without much traffic and site statisics will be down mate.
Cheers. P.S. I used weebly for a few years before, dumping it due to that.
That's not what they want.
They want a PRIVATE server only accessible by their students, kind of like an intranet vs the Internet.
All of this should be doable with any Linux computer (laptop, desktop, server). My Kindle Fire HD, which I rooted, connects to my all-Linux network without issue.
I'm afraid this is as far as I can go to help you, because I'm too far out of the loop now. (Was a Linux programmer and sysadmin for years before a brain tumor took me out of the workforce.) But we have lots of Linux folks here who are also Android experts, so I'm sure you're going to get useful input from them.
And I'd love to hear how it all works out!
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It's possible to install a web server that can be accessed over a local intranet. Simple web pages can be created fairly easily using PHP and HTML.
Email server, file sharing, this can all be done from a local server. It's a fair amount of installation and configuration. I'll have a look around and see if there's anything that can make your life easier. As Moody suggested, a Linux system would be ideal for this.
Email server, file sharing, this can all be done from a local server. It's a fair amount of installation and configuration. I'll have a look around and see if there's anything that can make your life easier. As Moody suggested, a Linux system would be ideal for this.
If bandwidth is the primary concern, then a notebook probably isn't going to give you a decent user experience. I'd also be concerned with reliability of notebook hardware since a server should be designed to run 24/7. My other concern would be security, especially if this is going to have any type of internet connectivity.
If email is going to be one of your goals then I'd recommend going with a bare bones CentOS (Linux) install and then adding iRedmail. It will give you a fairly easy and secure (free) email server setup and from there you can add file sharing, web services, ftp, whatever you like.