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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Same experience here as Jim. Seven stations, no printing or networking, kids on ‘em like flies on honey. The only issue is keeping them supplied with headphones
and mice as these are destroyed by the kiddies at quite a rate. We route the headphone jack to the front with a pigtail so that if the child walks away with the headphones on the jack will simply disconnect instead of pulling the whole PC along.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mann, James H.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 25, 2013 3:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Chad Neeper; OPLINTECH<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OPLINTECH] Reading Literacy System (software/OS ect)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">OK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">GCPL has some 20 AWE stations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We have always had a spare, but our experience with AWE support is that they send you a loaner overnight to avoid downtime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I doubt you can ghost them since you have no control…they are the most locked down computers I’ve ever seen. I’m too lazy to Google it but AWE stands for something
like advance workstation systems and they have several other products. And yes they don’t connect to the network, but do you really want kids printing hundreds of copies of dino dollars to your public printers?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m pretty sure you can still get the “ladybug” mice and our mice are black with yellow ears…maybe an early version of the touch screen computers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We’re getting headphones from Gayloard, but Ohionet used to sell supplies. I think I found Chestercreek a bit pricey for headphones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I may be talking out of school here, but in years past AWE and Ohionet have had a group purchase/upgrade/tradin/ tied to the OLC trade show. We did a trade
in and saved enough money to make it worthwhile.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you have the service contract AWE sends out yearly updates via a USB drive so you get newer versions and additional versions of the software each year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I remember Jamie Mason coming up to me at the trade show several years ago and saying “you gotta see this” so we bought and haven’t looked back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It’s not that I’m getting lazy in my old age, but you buy them, turn them on, and never look back…I wish all my other public computer options were that easy
and secure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">PS: If I were doing an open source computer I’d use Qimo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.qimo4kids.com/">http://www.qimo4kids.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">PSS: If I could lock a PC down I’d use the Zac browser:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://zacbrowser.com/">http://zacbrowser.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Forte;color:#1F497D">Jim Mann</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Technology Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Greene County Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">76 E. Market St<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Xenia OH 45385<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">937 352 4000 x1210<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.greenelibrary.info/">Discover. Learn. Grow.</a></span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:jmann@gcpl.lib.oh.us">jmann@gcpl.lib.oh.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/greenelibrary.info"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="38" height="38" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE8C72.B09A5DB0" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01CC67C9.EA681980"></span></a><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/greenelibrary"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="33" height="38" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CE8C72.B09A5DB0" alt="cid:image002.jpg@01CC67C9.EA681980"></span></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/greenelibrary"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="38" height="38" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CE8C72.B09A5DB0" alt="cid:image003.jpg@01CC67C9.EA681980"></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/greene-library"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="40" height="38" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CE8C72.B09A5DB0" alt="cid:image004.jpg@01CC67C9.EA681980"></span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org">oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org</a> [<a href="mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org">mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chad Neeper<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 25, 2013 3:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> OPLINTECH<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OPLINTECH] Reading Literacy System (software/OS ect)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">...unless you preemptively image the hard drive and stick the copy on a shelf/server somewhere as cheap insurance against failure... Should be simple enough via Ghost, clonezilla, whathaveyou...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">______________________________<br>
<b>Chad Neeper</b><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt">Senior Systems Engineer</span><br>
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<b>Level 9 Networks</b><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt">740-548-8070 (voice)<br>
866-214-6607 (fax)</span><br>
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<i><span style="font-size:7.5pt">Full LAN/WAN consulting services -- Specialized in libraries and schools</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Ed Liddle <<a href="mailto:eliddle@marysvillelib.org" target="_blank">eliddle@marysvillelib.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You can buy the cute kids mice and keyboards here <a href="http://www.chestercreek.com/" target="_blank">
http://www.chestercreek.com/</a><br>
We have 2 AWE machines we got from a grant. They came with usb injet printers which caused more problems than they were worth. The models we have can not use a network printer, but the new version of AWE machines I think can. We didn't want to spend money on
the upgrade to get them to print to a network printer. Chester Creek is the company that made the mouse and keyboard that ours came with. AWE machines are good if you don't want to mess with them other than rebooting them. If you try to do anything else with
them you will become very frustrated (like get the ones we have to connect to a network and print to a network printer) Since ours did not come with any media to reload the OS, AWE softare, and games back on them, once the hard drives fail the AWE software
and games will go away.<br>
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-Ed Liddle<br>
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Marysville Public Library<br>
<a href="http://marysvillelib.org" target="_blank">http://marysvillelib.org</a><br>
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From: <a href="mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org">oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org</a> [<a href="mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org">oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org</a>] on behalf of Don Yarman [<a href="mailto:yarmando@delawarelibrary.org">yarmando@delawarelibrary.org</a>]<br>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:51 PM<br>
To: OPLINTECH<br>
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Reading Literacy System (software/OS ect)<o:p></o:p></p>
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We have the AWE stations. If you've got the money and don't want<br>
to devote much energy to providing computers to preschoolers,<br>
they're fine. Personally, I think that's a lot of money to pay for<br>
Reader Rabbit.<br>
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We weighed some alternatives. We use KidZui for our schoolage/<br>
tween computers. Our children's librarians looked at Zoodles,<br>
ABC Mouse, and PBS Kids Play, eventually selecting the latter.<br>
We'll be moving to that when our AWE contract is up.<br>
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Don Yarman, Deputy Director<br>
Delaware County District Library<br>
<a href="mailto:yarmando@delawarelibrary.org">yarmando@delawarelibrary.org</a><br>
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Currently listening to "Stiff" by Mary Roach, and<br>
reading "Man in the Empty Suit" by Sean Ferrell.<br>
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Chad Neeper <<a href="mailto:cneeper@level9networks.com">cneeper@level9networks.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've always highly recommended the AWE Early Literacy Station ever since I<br>
> first saw it years ago when one of my libraries purchased one with money<br>
> from a small grant.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.awelearning.com/en/markets/libraries/in-the-library/the-early-literacy-station/" target="_blank">
http://www.awelearning.com/en/markets/libraries/in-the-library/the-early-literacy-station/</a><br>
><br>
> They're an excellent set-it-up-and-forget-about-it solution and the kids<br>
> (and parents) absolutely LOVE them. I used to try to put together a solution<br>
> like that myself, but once these came along, I stopped. I couldn't do nearly<br>
> as good a job as AWE has. Worth every penny and then some.<br>
><br>
> They're also perfect for small grants/gifts from local businesses.<br>
><br>
> Chad<br>
><br>
> ______________________________<br>
> Chad Neeper<br>
> Senior Systems Engineer<br>
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> Level 9 Networks<br>
> <a href="tel:740-548-8070">740-548-8070</a> (voice)<br>
> <a href="tel:866-214-6607">866-214-6607</a> (fax)<br>
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> Full LAN/WAN consulting services -- Specialized in libraries and schools<br>
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