Re: laptop question

[cleverenz@english.fsu.edu (Carrie Leverenz)]

Katie:  If Daedalus succeeds in developing a web version, then students
would "buy" a password and be able to use Daedalus anywhere they could
access the Net.  I've talked to the Daedalus people, and offered to be a
beta tester, so I know they are working on this one. Right?  Carrie Leverenz


>James, you express several of the questions I have as far as the networked
>use of these.  How would students have Daedalus capability on their
>laptops, for example, if we have a site liscense for the college?  Eric,
>do you know how that works?  Anyone?  From what I understand, they could
>not all come toting whichever platform they wanted either.  True?
>Although some folks at our place would be more favorable toward IBM, I
>wonder if PowerMacs serve students better becasue there is more
>possiblity of going back to IBM than in going from IBM to Mac.  Some of my
>colleagues, too, are convinced that Macs are dying and will soon be a
>thing of the past.  Ideas anyone?
>
>Katie
>
>On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, James E. Werchan wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>> 
>> individuals using them are one thing;  asking students to use them in a
>> ritualized classroom way is another.  aside from having LAN wires all over
>> the CAI classroom, having compatible LAN PC cards in them, having LAN
>> software configured to hook onto the LAN.  what a pain.   and folks who are
>> more network-savvy than me might be able to explain IP addresses on a LAN.
>> Would each student have to reconfigure IP addresses for each class he/she
>> plugged into?  If not, would bandwidth suffer?   
>> 
>> you know, some hot shot in Texas has pitched the idea of handing out laptops
>> to ALL public school kids in the whole state , instead of buying gazillions
>> of texts.  That way, a CDROM of hundreds of books could be issued instead of
>> individual books.  The break-even price for such computers would be around
>> $500 per unit.  Optimistic right now, but someday soon it'll be do-able.
>> Now if they do enough pilot studies and trial runs, they might find a vender
>> who might custom-build to standard specs. But it will have to be rock-solid.
>> And acculturating public school kids in such a diverse system will be a
>> monumental job.   It would make the public school textbook hearings--with
>> the perennial nattering of Mel & Norma Gabler--into a whole new kind of
circus.
>> 
>> So is laptop talk for college the talk of futurists or the talk of
>> pragmatists?    Geez, I'd be pretty intimidated.   Won't happen for buckeyes
>> anytime soon, i betcha.
>> 
>> james w 
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Carrie Shively Leverenz
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