[elearning] Netbooks and Macs and Multicampus

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Yes, the Macbooks are lovely. We are pitching for these as laptops.

As far as Netbooks go, we started with the default Linux image (came with
the eePC and another with the Acer Aspire One) then moved to build our own
with the Cannoicial Netbook remix. They are just glorified browsers / office
tools. Details here ..

     http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgcn8pb9_3c4gn5d24

Regards Roland

2009/5/1 Arnott, Suzanne S <arnott.suzanne.s at edumail.vic.gov.au>

>  Hey all,
>
> Wondering if anyone can help before I totally lose my mind....
>
>
>
> We have just launched some netbooks for student use (the first foray into
> mobile computer access at the college) and seem to have come up against some
> issues.
>
> Students can’t access IE even though the wireless is active it just won’t
> connect. Even when I tried running a digilearn object from a USB drive it
> wouldn’t open.
>
> They can get to their folders fine.
>
> It is taking ages for the netbooks to start up – supposedly the quick start
> up is a plus for these little beauties.
>
> The department software is what has been loaded, and at this stage we are
> looking at reimaging – ughhhhh
>
> Ohhh and it’s all MS
>
>
>
> We have Macs (they are lovely aren’t they J) on each campus. Two campuses
> don’t yet have Mac access to the internet as the techs are concerned about
> the security, and the one that does have only allows admins to connect to
> the internet due to parental controls.
>
> Ideas? What questions should I be asking the techs?
>
>
>
> Of course all of these issues are compounded by the dodginess of the
> network, possibly due to the multi campus thing.
>
> Any thoughts or ideas would be most appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Suz
>
>
>
> *Suzanne Arnott*
>
> eLearning Leader
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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