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

Thu Jul 25 17:06:47 EDT 2013

Wow; the Zac browser is great! Thanks for sharing!

Jessica D. Dooley

IT Specialist

Adams County Public Library

937-587-2085

dooleyje at oplin.org

From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org
[mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Mann, James H.
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 3:55 PM
To: Chad Neeper; OPLINTECH
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Reading Literacy System (software/OS ect)

OK

GCPL has some 20 AWE stations.

We have always had a spare, but our experience with AWE support is that they
send you a loaner overnight to avoid downtime.

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?

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.

We're getting headphones from Gayloard, but Ohionet used to sell supplies. I
think I found Chestercreek a bit pricey for headphones.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PS: If I were doing an open source computer I'd use Qimo

http://www.qimo4kids.com/

PSS: If I could lock a PC down I'd use the Zac browser:

http://zacbrowser.com/

Jim Mann

Technology Coordinator

Greene County Public Library

76 E. Market St

Xenia OH 45385

937 352 4000 x1210

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From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org
[mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Chad Neeper
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 3:16 PM
To: OPLINTECH
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Reading Literacy System (software/OS ect)

...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...

______________________________
Chad Neeper
Senior Systems Engineer

Level 9 Networks
740-548-8070 (voice)
866-214-6607 (fax)

Full LAN/WAN consulting services -- Specialized in libraries and schools

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Ed Liddle <eliddle at marysvillelib.org>
wrote:

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-lit
eracy-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)
>
> Full LAN/WAN consulting services -- Specialized in libraries and schools
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