[Offtopic] Mac and PC living in harmony

Fri Jun 10 09:17:18 EST 2011

Tim, and others.
Does any one have a school policy document relating to iTunes and podcasts purchased or freely downloaded from iTunes. We are trying to get all our i's dotted and t's crossed in relation to our iPad rollout and this is one of the steps we are up to.

Andrew

Andrew Weir
VK3HFT

On 09/06/2011, at 13:36, "Tim Kitchen" <tkitchen at strathcona.vic.edu.au<mailto:tkitchen at strathcona.vic.edu.au>> wrote:

Hi again

The best way to handle iPads is to consider them a personal device managed by the individual staff member or student via their iTunes account. iPads are not designed to be part of class sets or shared devices. The iPad is the individual's diary, contacts, email & (350,000) apps.

We encourage our students to charge them each night so the battery lasts the day and we recommend what apps need to be downloaded.

Many schools are looking at book listing them and the apps and replacing much of the annual stationary and text book costs.

We are still in a trial phase and hope to be phasing them in one year level at a time starting next year.

In relation to negatives with a hybrid environment - some saw virtualising Windows as a negative rather than dual booting. However it it did force the non-Mac user to get use to the Mac environment in order to get to the Windows side and as a result, many are now sticking with the Mac side and only using Windows for the rare app that doesn't run on Mac.

Check my iPad blog and the Vic Gov iPad trail site for more info

<http://timkitchen.net/ipads/>http://timkitchen.net/ipads/
<http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/>http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/

Ta

Tim Kitchen
Strathcona BGGS

On 09/06/2011, at 1:16 PM, Alan Oh wrote:

Thanks for all the replies. All seem very doable and positive. Are/Were there any negatives at all in a hybrid environment? Any caveats? I just want to be as prepared as much as possible. I appreciate the contacts for the apple specialists. They will come in handy later on.

As another question, how are ipads handled? My experience with Apple products is limited but I understand that you would require itunes to sync with the devices. On top of that, there is a restriction of 5 devices to one itunes account. Those of you with more than 5 iOS devices, how do you handle that to provide uniformity ?

Sorry for all these questions.

Regards
Alan
WCC

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Hi Folks

As soon as Apple started building their iMacs with the intel chip and allowed access to the Windows OS we were converted.

Since then we have replaced just about all our desktops and laptops with Macs that are dual boot (Windows & Mac).

Our students can now choose the OS they they want to use depending on what they need to do and there seems to be a nice even mix between the two systems.

Integration with our Network has not been a major issue. Recently we have been getting the help of an expert in this area who I highly recommend.

Melvin Wilson Jr
Apple Certified Professional

<mailto:mel at kokua.com.au>mel at kokua.com.au<mailto:mel at kokua.com.au>

Regards

Tim Kitchen
Strathcona BGGS

On 08/06/2011, at 3:11 PM, Alan Oh wrote:

Hi all,

I would like to know if there are schools out there which have both Mac and PC computer labs. If so (and I am sure there are), what does it take to have them running smoothly.

(Background). We are primarily a Windows school, running Windows Servers 2008 R2. We have several PC computer labs. One of the labs is coming up for renewal and one of the options was to replace it with Macs with a new primary school curriculum.

Do I need to have a Mac server? What can I use for imaging the 30 iMacs? Authentication on the network? More questions which I haven’t thought of yet.

Basically, what do I need to arm myself with to manage both camps?

Thanks for listening to the ramblings.

Best Regards,

Alan Oh

Information Technology
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