What can I do with E-books and Internet-in-a-Box?
The first step is to add content gems to your Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB).
Learn how to download high-quality free content, like Wikipedia ZIM files.
Or add content from your own USB disk or USB flash drive. Sharing or purchasing a hard-drive packed full of incredible Wikipedia + Maps + Literature + Khan Academy learning resources is also possible. Contact http://unleashkids.org volunteers should this be necessary.
Either way, this opens up entirely new opportunities for semi-connected schools and offline libraries worldwide, unleashing the best of Internet learning without costs or distractions. Medical clinics, museums and progressive prisons are also taking advantage, as well as individual educators and parents taking charge by building their own "Library of Alexandria" community hotspots.
How can kids best take advantage of these crown jewels of learning? After you've added content, you can offer your students direct access to different kind of content, using links like:
http://box Your Internet-in-a-Box Library! http://box/usb Content from USB sticks/drives, that teachers can insert anytime http://box:8008 KA Lite (Khan Academy videos & exercises, with its own content downloader) http://box:8080 Calibre E-Book Library: see FAQ, calibredb manual, calibre-server manual (see Calibre-Web below) http://box/maps OpenStreetMap: for box/modules/en-osm-omt-min or box/modules/en-worldmap/map.html or box/iiab/static/map.html http://box/docs FUTURE synonym for http://box/nextcloud ? http://box/wiki DokuWiki: collaborate on documents http://box/elgg Elgg social network for e-learning http://box/info IT support docs & eventually vids, offlined for all http://box/kiwix Kiwix: amazing content & videos, contained in searchable ZIM files WARNING: use http://box:3000/kiwix/ to avoid the Apache proxy e.g. for enhanced privacy #852 http://box/books Calibre-Web E-Book Library, an alternative to Calibre (above) with a modern interface: #816 http://box/moodle Moodle 3.5.x LTS (learning management system) http://box/lokole Lokole is an Email service that works offline for rural communities, students and teachers. http://box/kolibri Kolibri is like KA Lite; will allow educators to customize+remix Content Packs; also works: http://box:8009 http://box/nodered Node-RED visual programming for electronics projects (IoT) http://box/wordpress WordPress 5.0 (blogging & community publishing) http://box/mediawiki MediaWiki 1.31.x LTS (Wikipedia's own wiki software for document collaboration) http://box/nextcloud Nextcloud 15 (students can store their files/photos on Internet-in-a-Box, like Dropbox and Google Drive) http://box/runestone Runestone Interactive Textbooks (proposed, example) http://box/sugarizer Sugar Learning Platform originally from One Laptop Per Child
Common network ports are listed in our high-level networking summary. Internet-in-a-Box administrators can also benefit from these web tools:
http://box:9091 Transmission BitTorrent downloader, for KA Lite content provisioning etc http://box/admin Admin Console: operators log in here, to improve your Internet-in-a-Box server/system http://box/munin Network/Infra monitoring http://box/awstats/awstats.pl Usage statistics
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