Hi Richard, Because I'm at a satellite campus instead of the main campus, especially that part of the main campus which is composed of computer labs operated by my department.
So, U3 drives so that I can have students d/o demo's/shareware software not officially honkey-dorey by our IT folks (which is basically everything that is NOT MS Office...). Am I mistaken? Isn't that THE BIG THING about the U3 drives? That you can run apps off them? Here's the slightly longer story: I'm now teaching the "Computer Impact on Society" course which is general ed every semester. Just recently, when looking for one of the early articles written by Richard Decker (of Analytical Engine fame) on why he thought HT was a good CS0/CS1 language, I found another one in which he was ruminating about CS0/CS1 in general, and, in particular made a comment something to the effect that courses such as "computer imapct" ones ... 'are limited to the extent to which the content is divorced from an understanding of the technology being referenced.' And, of course, I find this to be a keen observation. As much as Trevor or one of the other kind folks might well tell you what a complete DB weenie I am, still, I have some vague concept of what one is, even if I can't quite figure out how to handle the server side versus client side aspects of how I'd like to see one done. I'm not digressing too much. By way of an example, I find that my students have all sorts of strongly-voiced sentiments about how they don't mind privacy rights violations/intrusions associated with large governmental databases, purchasing data mined by private entities which is illegal for the government to collect itself directly, the merging of large databases, etc. etc. ... BUT... when asked if they know what a database it/how it works/its characteristics... I see maybe 1 or 2 hands go up, and at least 1 of those only knows how to hit the "print" button in FileMaker Pro to print a pre-defined report. Hence, I'd like for them to be able to d/l the FileMaker demo and put together a simple database or two. Und so weiter... ;-) Judy On Sun, 13 May 2007, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Just curious: Why specifically U3 drives rather than the superset of > all available thumb drives? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
