College of Ed requires laptops; Cleaner quicker?
What do you think about this?
Austin American-Statesman: “UT want Apple in students’ laps”: “Beginning this fall, the University of Texas will require students entering its teacher preparation programs to have laptops, and if they can’t get the right machine, they’ll have to buy it from Apple Computer Corp.” Lots of places require computers, but this seems to be the first in a College of Education, and they require Apple to boot. They don’t say what the required software is, though.
HA! I found an answer to the crawling Cleaner problem: I had been deleting and adding files to the same batch file. According to the fine person Jeff Handy at Creative Cow’s Cleaner discussion forum:
Be sure to always start with a new batch before starting a compression session. :) Then, if you don’t have anything in your trash bin, put something there and empty the trash. ...
Go visit Ken Stone’s page. Many new updates, worth your time and bandwidth.
April 22, 2002 at 8:14 pmGiles Bateman
link
Re: UT want Apple in students’ laps:
UT’s decision is interesting, but it’s not unprecedented. The article itself states:
So, if UT builds the cost of the Mac laptops (which start at $1000) into admission, would people still have a problem?
When my sister went for her MBA at Baylor University, she was specifically required to buy an IBM ThinkPad. Granted that was graduate school, but I imagine that at most universities, the same tech department has to support both undergrad and graduate level users. Plus, as the administrator of a multi-platform network at a K-12 school district, I agree with UT’s associate dean that life for the faculty would be simpler if everybody used Macs.
It would also be simpler for me to administer our network if we moved to Macs-only, but I think it’s good for the students to use multiple platforms early on. By the time students enter college, they should already know how to use productivity software (which is practically identical platform to platform) and consider college laptop requirements (if they exist) to be part of their investment in their own education.
Giles
http://giles.hn.org:81/
April 23, 2002 at 7:34 amTim Merritt
link
It’s the first time I had heard of a College of Education requiring laptops; that was the new thing for me. I didn’t realize you ran a network for a whole school system. Do you come from a Unix, Windows, or Mac background? In other words, what computing prejudices have you had to overcome (if any). :-)