Stephen Russell wrote: > Personalizing an asset is part of the fun of ownership, right? Sure, and each student can personalize their desktop, set application preferences, save their high scores, whatever they want to do. Or did you mean something else?
> In your lab the environment was sterile and not fun for fourth > graders, but more for university students in a lab on campus. Can you elaborate please? How can you judge my environment as sterile? > I understand that it worked, and over time it was less frustrating for > IT staff in the school. IT staff in the school? You really have no idea what's going on in public schools do you? We are lucky to have one resource teacher designated as IT Support, but that person doesn't really have the background to do any actual system administration. He mostly is the contact to the district IT guy (who is buried in his own pile), and works out things like scheduling the rolling MacBook lab, and sending hardware back to Apple for repair/replacement, and training teachers how to use features of the OS and certain applications. In my mind having a stable environment at the base is critical to getting any success with computers in schools, otherwise everyone's time is wasted and the students miss out on even more learning. The least expensive (initial cost and long term) stable platform to go with is Linux, by far. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
