The 23th november 2005

What is an FTP server and why is it useful? What are some of the activities you can do with it? Do you have one available for you, and which one is it? If you don't have one, why don't you get one?

An FTP server is a space on the web. It’s use to host website, and some files. If you want create a website you must have a server on the web to host it. Most of the time this service is paying, but you can have lots of options : a big space (2Go), many e-mail addresses, a domain name like “.com”, “.org” or “.info”, and the most important the manage of different languages : php, perl, python, ssi …

This space could be use too, to share some files, like an USB key, but with all over the world.

I have it but, I can’t use it at the moment because of some technical problems.

Our class has a special approach to interactivity. It is not possible to have the same interaction of a normal class, but it offers several new ways of interacting. What are these? What are the ways that are especially interesting to you? How could they work better? What technical solutions can you suggest?

The new ways of interacting are that we can share some of point of mined on the same time with the common window. But it’s really difficult to follow the conversation on the common window, and understand what the teacher speaks about, work about the lesson, find some example of the subject, etc …

But this is a new way of learning, and we can do many things one the same time.

Prepare one question about the last class: what did you not understand? What would like to have more information on and why? What question did our discussion cause you to ask?

I am not sure to understand how you want, mister Bob, host the podcast. Because by the way you show, we must record our voice by the phone. And I am not really agree with it. I think it’s better to use software like “audacity” and host the mp3 on a FTP server.