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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - General Chat - The perfect IT school facilities |
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firemaker Cheep-cheep                   Since: 12-13-05 From: Somewhere in a place called Berkshire Last post: 6376 days Last view: 6376 days |
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| Sorry for how alike this is to the perfect school thread but I need this as I have now become the IT representative for my school. Basically tell me what you would like a schools IT facilities. I need to present this infront of 80 teachers so please make this good. | |||
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Ziff B2BB BACKTOBASICSBITCHES  Since: 11-18-05 From: A room Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| More film and audio editting equipment.
Fuck digital. I demand some good old analogue equipment to fuck shit up. |
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Cymoro Administrator    Since: 11-17-05 From: Cymoro Gaming Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| Free wireless.
Oh, and whatever you do, don't get those fucking slimclient Compaqs.They're slow as fuck. |
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6300 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| what kind of school is your school? High School? Middle school? and what is your school's budget?
some high schools have pilot the idea of renting laptops to each and every student. Video editing and production equipment would be nice if there are plans to offer digital video elective. |
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asdf Link's Awakening ಠ_ಠ  Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6299 days Last view: 6297 days |
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I agree with free Wireless. You could also get some better programs, depending on the software you currently use. If money is left over, try to get some warrenties on some of the video equipment. But most importantly, focus on the little things at first, then if you're still in, work your way out to the big things. After all, you are new at the job and don't want to look like a fool.  (edited by asdf on 01-16-06 09:57 PM) |
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Tarale    2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| I come from an education in schools background and I currently still work in the education sector.
The thing that I have found most IT coordinators don't focus on enough is keeping the state of the workstations up to scratch. Too many focus on "innovating" (read: toys) and not enough on the perpetual cycle of upgrade and repair. Audit your workstations. Remove any that are old clunkers and replace them. Try to upgrade a whole classroom and rotate your machines. Audit printers and data projectors too and submit them to the same treatment if you can. Your students and teachers don't want to work with broken equipment, slow equipment or unreliable equipment. |
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firemaker Cheep-cheep Since: 12-13-05 From: Somewhere in a place called Berkshire Last post: 6376 days Last view: 6376 days |
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Originally posted by neotransotaku We're a private school so have a £500,000 budget and the whole school is already wireless. Hence laptops and desktops can be connected to their network. As for programs we already have Photoshop 6 Macromedia MX suite Sibelius Office 2003 |
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Koneko Plasma Whisp  Since: 11-17-05 From: Tartarus. We get faster internet than you. Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| And your school needs to be better why?
Unless you don't do upgrade/repair as mentioned by Tarale, you guys are set. If you need to use up some budget though, suggest buying Cray 9. |
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firemaker Cheep-cheep Since: 12-13-05 From: Somewhere in a place called Berkshire Last post: 6376 days Last view: 6376 days |
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Originally posted by Koneko Thats what I thought. The school IT facility is very advanced for a high school. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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Originally posted by Cymoro This is true of any Compaq. The one I'm using at school right now takes about 10 seconds to execute 'rem' (which does absolutely nothing) in a batch file. 
If you have the money, go with the laptop idea. Install some nice software like lololol/Opera/not IE, maybe Textpad, |
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firemaker Cheep-cheep Since: 12-13-05 From: Somewhere in a place called Berkshire Last post: 6376 days Last view: 6376 days |
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| I like the laptop idea but most people already have laptops in school because ofthe wireless system. However what HyperHacker said seems like a very good idea. It would mean that students without as much money as others e.g. scholars could get laptops to help them with their work. | |||
Kasumi-Astra Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| I have to agree about the school already being up-to-date. My school suffered from having a bloated IT department that drew budget away from other departments. There's no fucking wonder that they key subjects of maths, english and science are failing. They're never going to compete with subjects that appear as trendy and high-tech as Computing. My old IT teacher has a 30" monitor in his office, for christ's sake.
So many subjects could do with bright, interesting, clean new textbooks and a breath of fresh air. The best thing you can give a school is plenty of reasonably fast computers, and make them uniform across the entire school. You don't need toys or gadgets to learn. Just make the computer experience easy to learn and approach. Make sure that there's enough facilities so that it can be a part of every student's study experience. |
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Schweiz oder etwas [12:55] (Dr_Death16); I swear, the word drama needs to be stricken from the dictionary, for I've heard it so many times, it will permanently be imprinted on my brain  Since: 11-17-05 From: Kingston, Rhode Island Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| The key here is in idiot-proofing the computer systems at a school. I agree with Tarale that computer maintanence should be more important than just buying pretty gadgets, and I agree with Kas that uniformity is key.
The problem is with the people who DO do things like install lololol and other programs that interfere with the uniformity of the computers. There should be no tweaking allowed at all, because you can only tweak so much before you start to break things down. Letting students independently install programs on standardized computers will only lead to the eventual state of someone doing the idiotic thing like installing fucking GATOR for crying out loud. And then, if your file system protection is anything like what my High School's was, the entire system is screwed. Control, when it comes to something as delicate as technology, needs to be completely taken away from anyone who isn't responsible/informed/educated enough to use it correctly. |
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firemaker Cheep-cheep Since: 12-13-05 From: Somewhere in a place called Berkshire Last post: 6376 days Last view: 6376 days |
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| Grey while I am all for making sure people don't mess up the actual system the school should allow lololol to be used on all pc's and not just personal laptops. Then they should only give internet access to their main router which could ave the legally required web filtering. | |||
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6300 days Last view: 6297 days |
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Originally posted by Grey cat There are several undergraduate computer labs scattered around my school. What is nice about them is you can install anything you want. However, when you log out of using them, that causes the system to reset itself and restore itself back to a state before you logged on. This is a solution that could be explored to keep systems uniform. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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Yeah, a lot of schools use Deep Freeze to do that. It's pretty good; has options to install Windows updates while frozen (I think), make a non-frozen partition, and is pretty secure (runs as a driver, so you can't just kill the process, and prevents BIOS writes so you can't just wipe the boot password with some clever writes). Of course without a properly configured BIOS (boot from HD, password required to change) this is all fairly pointless as a boot disk can take it out in a few seconds.  Also it can really slow down the system... |
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NSNick Gohma IF ALL ELSE FAILS USE BOOZE  Since: 11-17-05 From: Last post: 6299 days Last view: 6299 days |
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| Perhaps look into getting textbooks in online or computer formats? | |||
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firemaker Cheep-cheep Since: 12-13-05 From: Somewhere in a place called Berkshire Last post: 6376 days Last view: 6376 days |
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| No... *Shudders" trust me no matter what format it is in, it is always better to have a book rather thatn a pc. The portability of a textbook is why I like textbooks so much. I mean its not like a laptop that can run out of batteries or anything like that. | |||
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NSNick Gohma IF ALL ELSE FAILS USE BOOZE Since: 11-17-05 From: Last post: 6299 days Last view: 6299 days |
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| I guess I should say additional material. Like videos and interactive graphs and stuff. Not the whole book online. | |||
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| Do both. Online and real books. |
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