Activities/Classroom Broadcast
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TBD
Description
ClassroomBroadcast transmits the screen of the 'server' laptop to the screens of a number of 'client' laptops. Typically the teacher's laptop would be the server and the students' laptop theclients. ClassroomBroadcast is a low cost alternative to using a data projector. ClassroomBroadcast runs on the server laptop and a VNC client such as TigerVNC runs on the client laptops.
Installing
Install ClassroomBroadcast on the 'server' laptop from http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4507
ClassroomBroadcast also requires some additional software x11vnc
To install x11vnc enter the following in Terminal
sudo yum install x11vnc
Install a VNC client on all the client laptops, in Terminal enter
sudo yum install vnc