Archive for the ‘One-to-one Computing’ Category
Tuesday, December 21st, 2004
What a day! We had a bunch of people including two Apple system engineers at various times unpacking laptops and getting them ready to image. Hopefully you can get a sense of the setup from the picture. We will image about 50 laptops at a time starting first thing tomorrow ...
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Sunday, November 7th, 2004
Less than a week after placing the order, an incredulous delivery guy showed up with a truck full of 650 Apple iBook laptops. We had a pretty good idea where we were going to store them, but weren't entirely sure how much room it would take. The stack you see ...
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2004
I placed the single largest order of my career today. Within hours of Apple announcing the new and improved iBooks we placed a nearly $670,000 order for 650 of them. Now we need to find a place to store them while we get them inventoried and imaged. Pretty exciting. Our ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2004
By the end of next week all seven of our elementary schools will be completely wireless campuses. This project is part of our district one-to-one computing pilot project that I mentioned previously. Creating a wireless campus presents all sorts of opportunities and challenges. Ubiquitous access to the network (in conjunction ...
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Thursday, July 1st, 2004
We had our first meeting with the group of teachers who will be participating in our 1:1 computing pilot project next year. I think I mentioned this before, but we'll have about 550 students and 23 teachers with 24x7 access to Apple iBook laptops beginning in January 2005. The purpose ...
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