To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Blocking iPhones
Wouldn't it be easier (and beneficial) to get faculty to utilize
technology in their classes rather than vilifying it ... or this
too much to ask ... this device is the real connection to the
student
] On Behalf Of Chuck Keeler
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 8:32 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Blocking iPhones
Wouldn't it be easier (and beneficial) to get faculty to utilize
technology in their classes rather than vilifying it ... or this
too much to ask
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 8:32 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Blocking iPhones
Wouldn't it be easier (and beneficial) to get faculty to utilize technology in
their classes rather than vilifying it ... or this too much to ask ... this
device is the real
: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of heath.barnhart
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:47 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Blocking iPhones
I'm going to have to go with Jethro on this one
Not to get too off-topic, but where are the requests coming from, and why?
-Chris
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Chris Murphy
Network Engineer
MIT Information Services Technology
Room W92-191
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
ch...@mit.edu
On 4/16/09 12:49 PM, Emerson Parker epar...@arubanetworks.com wrote:
Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Murphy
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:34 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Blocking iPhones
Not to get too off-topic, but where are the requests coming from, and
why
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Emerson Parker wrote:
The requests I'm seeing is from teachers who don't what people on their
phones in class.
Why are you singling out iPhones?
This sounds like yet another case of technology being asked to provide a
solution to a social or political problem. And that
There is a great solution, but my Apple shares would suffer from it...
Would you like to block Pocket PC and Symbian?,
those I don't mind!
Philippe
p.s. : seriously this is where the engineer has to become a sociologist
and tell the customer that OS discrimination is not PC ;-)
On
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:55 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Blocking iPhones
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Emerson Parker wrote:
The requests I'm seeing is from teachers who don't what people on
their
phones in class.
Why are you singling out iPhones
I'm going to have to go with Jethro on this one. When I was in class
generally you were warned at the beginning of the semester. Following
that, a call during usually resulted in either being asked to leave or
being humiliated by the professor, or both. Also Neil brings up another
point in a
One microwave oven in each corner of the room, with the doors broken
off, running 24/7.
More seriously, I think the effort is pretty futile. People could just
use 3G/EDGE or bring in a Palm Pre/Blackberry/whatever instead.
Matt Barber
Network Analyst
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053
Blocking technology usually just creates more problems than it solves.
Imagine an emergency on campus and the fallout from students being
unable to use their cell phones. This is a job for administrators to
do what they do best.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, heath.barnhart
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