The story I have heard regarding slowing high-use members down is that Netflix loses money on all the shipping costs. Anyone know if that is the case? I also heard some grumblings about a class-action lawsuit being filed.
"Maybe it would be possible to allow access to a local intranet only through the wifi? It wouldnt eliminate any Legend of Zelda, but it might keep the surfing to minimum."
Maybe you could eliminate wireless, but that isn't the point. The point is that professors need to adjust their curriculua to the changing times. If you have students who have cell phones, laptops and more, you need to take advantage of this. Create a website coordinated with your lectures, let your students view images/resources used in class from yoru website. Let them talk in online chatrooms during class to clarify points of the lesson. Have the teacher's assistants in the chatrooms answering questions. Think outside the box!
We shouldn't teach the way Socrates taught thousands of years ago. He was the teacher to emulate then. Don't you think great teachers of the day will take advantage of great teaching tools of the day?
[disclaimer: I am a teacher in a laptop school]
...and don't forget that Moodle is free. When giving costs to administrators, you must include the competitors. So yes, Moodle will require some upgraded hardware. WebCT/Blackboard will require licensing/maintenance and hardware. With Moodle, get the hardware and pay the maintenance to someone who can make it fly and who can customize it for you. Will still be considerably less than the other two.
I can assure you that WebCT and Blackboard will crawl on your old hardware as well. Invest in Moodle and you will see improved results. Crawling courseware is a sure way to get cranky users.
Laptops are for homework, but I agree, they have no place in the classroom. At least not my classroom.
I find this sweeping generalization troubling. Teachers need to continually evaluate new teaching tools. We are essentially teaching classes the same way we did 1,000 years ago. Why don't educational institutions respond to societal and technological advancements in more progressive ways? See wonderful quotes from teachers organizations of the past. [pdf]
There are new and innovative techniques for teaching and motivating students i.e. putting students more in control of their own learning, letting them work on more authentic problems (rather than irrelveant examples like so many infamous "world problems") and becoming less of a lecturer and more of a facilitator. Students will rise only as high as the expectations we have for them.
If we assume that no student will use a laptop constructively, and we keep laptops out of the classrooms, then we are indeed correct, no student will use a laptop constructively in the classroom. Let's not congratulate ourselves for this self-fulfilling prophecy.
disclaimer: I am the Director of Educational Technology at a K-12 girls school where all of the students in grades 8-12 are required to have a laptop
You learn very little from listening to someone talk. Learning is best facilitated by students working with material, experimenting, testing hypothesis, etc.
You don't learn a foreign language by watching a DVD, you need to speak to someone.
You don't learn Algebra by watching someone else do problems, you need to do them yourself.
You don't learn C++ by watching someone write a program, you need to solve a problem and create your own algorithm.
Laptops are a perfect resource to give to students to let them have more powerful tools for solving problems, wheter it is writing papers, programming, exploring online art museums, communicating with people from all around the world in authentic ways or just about anything else you can think up.
Computers will never be "smart." They only do as they are told.
Smart has a setup using a short-throw projector that is hung about a foot above the SmartBoard and projects straight down onto it. This cuts out a lot of the annoying issues with having front projection.
The rear-projection SmartBoard also works out to be about the same price because you don't need to buy an lcd projector and wire/install it. They are a bit bulky in size though.
many libraries buy the more expensive more liberal-licensed versions which clearly allow for larger, group viewing.
the small clip clause is for educators who want kids to take video to put into projects. in those cases you cannot use more than a small amount of the total work (see link above)
one problem is that the voip routers that you get do not have a lot of management functions. so if you had a router that was moving packets on various ports (smtp(25), web(80), imap(143), etc., you are in trouble.
you need a router in front of the voip router. now you have to learn free bsd instead of just buying a $30 d-link router which has a nice web gui.
bittorrent and linux iso downloads kill my vonage bandwith, and calls are so lagged that it isn't even worth trying.
hmmm, free bsd sounds cool, maybe i should try it...
how can a windows manager have its own live cd?
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i am a bit of a linux noob although i have installed SuSE, redhat, fedora and have used ubuntu, knoppix, SuSE and some other live cd's. what i don't understand is how gnome has its own live cd. don't you need a distribution for gnome to run on? isn't is just a desktop manager?
Squeak is a great development tool, but for young people, the Squeakland team led by Alan Kay is doing fantastic things. I teach my 8th grade programming class using Squeak and also taught a 4th grade computer club Squeak. It was a breeze for them, and they loved it.
Here's what a greedy ISP CAN do:
If an wire-based ISP has a sweetheart deal with an apartment building and they want to lock out WAPs, they can jam those frequencies. It's deregulated and AFAIK there's nothing that can stop them as long as they keep the power level down.
I have just started working with REALbasic. It is a fantastic product, and making applications with it is a breeze, especially across platforms. User community is very supportive, and the folks who started REALbasic often weigh in for help. Might be a little too small at this point for you to convince the higher ups though.
REAL software website
this has been a fear among civil libertarians lately. it seems an easy move for Bush to make. he has already proclaimed that the American public has given him a mandate. the hard part is where to look for a more conservative AG...I am sure the Bushie's are up to the task though.
i am amazed that the umich server went down. i was in ann arbor from 1996-2002, and the worst outage i ever saw was when the main data center caught on fire. university-wide, e-mail was down for about 15 minutes when the backup unix boxes kicked in and everyone began to breathe easy again. i would bet the eecs server will be back up shortly. they use the real-deal unix boxes, not linux on intel's.
sorry about that. someone e-mailed me and let me know. when i was posting, i noticed they weren't working, and somehow tweaked them into functioning even though they were the wrong format. not sure why they still work, but i am on it for next time.
for those who don't know what we are talking about,
"coralizing" a url protects the hosting servers from getting overwhelmed by the sudden traffic from slashdot. info on Coral here.
another helpful site is MirrorDot, which mirrors all the links in slashdot articles each day. good idea...
my understanding is that with service pack 2, remote desktop does not lock out the local user anymore. both can be online simultaneously.
if you have windows 2000 server, you can install terminal services of course and have someone locally on the server and as many licensed clients "terminalled" in as you have choose to pay for.
all the ranting and raving about "get these people food first" is totally ethnocentric and offensive. I am embarrased being a citizen of the wealthiest nation in the world where we let our own people starve, while the technophiles go around dropping 3-4 year old ($4,000) computers in the trash. When someone proposes letting people in the 3rd world get their fair chance to go online, people in the US somehow are ready to be up in arms telling that person to fight for food instead. what a load...
give people they same choice that you have. if they want a computer, let them have it, if they want corn, so be it. but to sit back and say those people don't need computers reeks of arrogance.
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The story I have heard regarding slowing high-use members down is that Netflix loses money on all the shipping costs. Anyone know if that is the case? I also heard some grumblings about a class-action lawsuit being filed.
Maybe you could eliminate wireless, but that isn't the point. The point is that professors need to adjust their curriculua to the changing times. If you have students who have cell phones, laptops and more, you need to take advantage of this. Create a website coordinated with your lectures, let your students view images/resources used in class from yoru website. Let them talk in online chatrooms during class to clarify points of the lesson. Have the teacher's assistants in the chatrooms answering questions. Think outside the box!
We shouldn't teach the way Socrates taught thousands of years ago. He was the teacher to emulate then. Don't you think great teachers of the day will take advantage of great teaching tools of the day? [disclaimer: I am a teacher in a laptop school]
...and don't forget that Moodle is free. When giving costs to administrators, you must include the competitors. So yes, Moodle will require some upgraded hardware. WebCT/Blackboard will require licensing/maintenance and hardware. With Moodle, get the hardware and pay the maintenance to someone who can make it fly and who can customize it for you. Will still be considerably less than the other two.
I can assure you that WebCT and Blackboard will crawl on your old hardware as well. Invest in Moodle and you will see improved results. Crawling courseware is a sure way to get cranky users.
I find this sweeping generalization troubling. Teachers need to continually evaluate new teaching tools. We are essentially teaching classes the same way we did 1,000 years ago. Why don't educational institutions respond to societal and technological advancements in more progressive ways? See wonderful quotes from teachers organizations of the past. [pdf]
There are new and innovative techniques for teaching and motivating students i.e. putting students more in control of their own learning, letting them work on more authentic problems (rather than irrelveant examples like so many infamous "world problems") and becoming less of a lecturer and more of a facilitator. Students will rise only as high as the expectations we have for them.
If we assume that no student will use a laptop constructively, and we keep laptops out of the classrooms, then we are indeed correct, no student will use a laptop constructively in the classroom. Let's not congratulate ourselves for this self-fulfilling prophecy.
disclaimer: I am the Director of Educational Technology at a K-12 girls school where all of the students in grades 8-12 are required to have a laptop
You learn very little from listening to someone talk. Learning is best facilitated by students working with material, experimenting, testing hypothesis, etc.
You don't learn a foreign language by watching a DVD, you need to speak to someone.
You don't learn Algebra by watching someone else do problems, you need to do them yourself.
You don't learn C++ by watching someone write a program, you need to solve a problem and create your own algorithm.
Laptops are a perfect resource to give to students to let them have more powerful tools for solving problems, wheter it is writing papers, programming, exploring online art museums, communicating with people from all around the world in authentic ways or just about anything else you can think up.
Computers will never be "smart." They only do as they are told.
nope, a good lcd projector works just fine in the light.
The rear-projection SmartBoard also works out to be about the same price because you don't need to buy an lcd projector and wire/install it. They are a bit bulky in size though.
many libraries buy the more expensive more liberal-licensed versions which clearly allow for larger, group viewing.
the small clip clause is for educators who want kids to take video to put into projects. in those cases you cannot use more than a small amount of the total work (see link above)
one problem is that the voip routers that you get do not have a lot of management functions. so if you had a router that was moving packets on various ports (smtp(25), web(80), imap(143), etc., you are in trouble.
you need a router in front of the voip router. now you have to learn free bsd instead of just buying a $30 d-link router which has a nice web gui.
bittorrent and linux iso downloads kill my vonage bandwith, and calls are so lagged that it isn't even worth trying.
hmmm, free bsd sounds cool, maybe i should try it...
i am a bit of a linux noob although i have installed SuSE, redhat, fedora and have used ubuntu, knoppix, SuSE and some other live cd's. what i don't understand is how gnome has its own live cd. don't you need a distribution for gnome to run on? isn't is just a desktop manager?
what am i missing here?
Squeak is a great development tool, but for young people, the Squeakland team led by Alan Kay is doing fantastic things. I teach my 8th grade programming class using Squeak and also taught a 4th grade computer club Squeak. It was a breeze for them, and they loved it.
Here's what a greedy ISP CAN do: If an wire-based ISP has a sweetheart deal with an apartment building and they want to lock out WAPs, they can jam those frequencies. It's deregulated and AFAIK there's nothing that can stop them as long as they keep the power level down.
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i am quite sure this is illegal. the fcc does not like when people mess around with licensed or unlicensed spectrum without their permission. check out this link: http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/cellular/operati
I have just started working with REALbasic. It is a fantastic product, and making applications with it is a breeze, especially across platforms. User community is very supportive, and the folks who started REALbasic often weigh in for help. Might be a little too small at this point for you to convince the higher ups though. REAL software website
this has been a fear among civil libertarians lately. it seems an easy move for Bush to make. he has already proclaimed that the American public has given him a mandate. the hard part is where to look for a more conservative AG...I am sure the Bushie's are up to the task though.
coralized link to eecs server is working.
i am amazed that the umich server went down. i was in ann arbor from 1996-2002, and the worst outage i ever saw was when the main data center caught on fire. university-wide, e-mail was down for about 15 minutes when the backup unix boxes kicked in and everyone began to breathe easy again. i would bet the eecs server will be back up shortly. they use the real-deal unix boxes, not linux on intel's.
http://bimonscificon.mybttracker.net:6969/torrent. html?info_hash=dabe82a1e8066343fe7683eff6d8412c09d e7af2
for those who don't know what we are talking about, "coralizing" a url protects the hosting servers from getting overwhelmed by the sudden traffic from slashdot. info on Coral here.
another helpful site is MirrorDot, which mirrors all the links in slashdot articles each day. good idea...
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my understanding is that with service pack 2, remote desktop does not lock out the local user anymore. both can be online simultaneously. if you have windows 2000 server, you can install terminal services of course and have someone locally on the server and as many licensed clients "terminalled" in as you have choose to pay for.
all the ranting and raving about "get these people food first" is totally ethnocentric and offensive. I am embarrased being a citizen of the wealthiest nation in the world where we let our own people starve, while the technophiles go around dropping 3-4 year old ($4,000) computers in the trash. When someone proposes letting people in the 3rd world get their fair chance to go online, people in the US somehow are ready to be up in arms telling that person to fight for food instead. what a load...
give people they same choice that you have. if they want a computer, let them have it, if they want corn, so be it. but to sit back and say those people don't need computers reeks of arrogance.