[Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] 'Ruddy' Computers

[David Dawson]

This might seem like a silly question - but why aren't state schools
going wireless and getting laptops?
Is anyone trying to get onto the new *super cheap* so-called $100 (US?)
laptops?

David Dawson
Head of Information Technology Learning Area
Head of Learning Technologies
St Kilda Rd Campus
Wesley College 
577 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne 3004
Ph 8102 6340
Mob 0425 718147


>>> kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au 07/22/08 1:27 pm >>>
Hi all.  This is OT, but I just wanted to air this.  If the thread 
develops, we can move it to the OffTopic list.

I wanted to get people's ideas about the money we are being given to
get 
us to a 1:2 computer/student ratio.

Yesterday I found we were entitled to apply for funding for 257 
computers, which is wonderful except for the fact that we have nowhere

to put them.

I could perhaps use about 45 of them, but 257?  Not unless we also get

funding for new buildings, cabling, tech support, software licences
etc.

If we applied for the maximum amount of money we are entitled to, the 
only only option would be for use to stack the computers five-deep in 
shipping containers on the oval.

At $1000 per PC (assuming about $650 for the hardware the the rest for

associated expenses) I can't see it working.  And we can't just use the

money to replace existing computers - we have to add to the existing
fleet.

It's starting to look like a white elephant: the gift you'd give to 
someone you really didn't like  :-)

Is anyone else in the same boat?

Cheers
Mark

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McKinnon Secondary College
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