[OPLINTECH] Reading Literacy System (software/OS ect)

[Ed Liddle]

You can buy the cute kids mice and keyboards here http://www.chestercreek.com/ 
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.  

-Ed Liddle

Marysville Public Library
http://marysvillelib.org

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From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org [oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] on behalf of Don Yarman [yarmando at delawarelibrary.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:51 PM
To: OPLINTECH
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Reading Literacy System (software/OS ect)

We have the AWE stations. If you've got the money and don't want
to devote much energy to providing computers to preschoolers,
they're fine. Personally, I think that's a lot of money to pay for
Reader Rabbit.

We weighed some alternatives. We use KidZui for our schoolage/
tween computers. Our children's librarians looked at Zoodles,
ABC Mouse, and PBS Kids Play, eventually selecting the latter.
We'll be moving to that when our AWE contract is up.

        Don Yarman, Deputy Director
        Delaware County District Library
        yarmando at delawarelibrary.org

Currently listening to "Stiff" by Mary Roach, and
reading "Man in the Empty Suit" by Sean Ferrell.


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Chad Neeper <cneeper at level9networks.com> wrote:
> I've always highly recommended the AWE Early Literacy Station ever since I
> first saw it years ago when one of my libraries purchased one with money
> from a small grant.
>
> http://www.awelearning.com/en/markets/libraries/in-the-library/the-early-literacy-station/
>
> They're an excellent set-it-up-and-forget-about-it solution and the kids
> (and parents) absolutely LOVE them. I used to try to put together a solution
> like that myself, but once these came along, I stopped. I couldn't do nearly
> as good a job as AWE has. Worth every penny and then some.
>
> They're also perfect for small grants/gifts from local businesses.
>
> Chad
>
> ______________________________
> Chad Neeper
> Senior Systems Engineer
>
> Level 9 Networks
> 740-548-8070 (voice)
> 866-214-6607 (fax)
>
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