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

[Bob Neeper]

Our 2 came with a flexible adapter to the splitter cable.
I tie wrapped them together as the head phones 'walked' from the children's area 
to other PC's.

We gave up on those headphones a few years ago and sell ear buds for $1 or bring 
your own.

Interestingly, just after the rash of emails on the subject we had to replace 2 
of the 4 headphones and a mouse.
No visible damage to anything.
First problem since we got them in 6/2012


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On 7/30/2013 12:45 PM, Greg Syferd wrote:
> Steve-
>
> Could you send me a picture of one of your stations with the rigged up 
> headphones?  We have 130 AWE stations which work great, except for the 
> headphone jacks continually breaking.  We've tried a number of solutions and 
> never have come up with a way to prevent them from breaking it seems.
>
> I like the AWEs, but must say they are getting old in the tooth.  A lot of the 
> content feels very 90ish.  So many of today's kids want a tablet with more 
> "stuff."  I know AWE has been working on something with tablets, so maybe someday.
>
> However, I'm with Jim in that it is an easy solution to put in place and 
> forget about.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Greg.
>
> *Greg Syferd *? Infrastructure and Network Services Manager
> *Columbus Metropolitan Library* ? Operations Center
> 101 S. Stygler Rd ? Gahanna, OH 43230
>
> 614.479.3037 office ?614.264.9393 cell
> gsyferd at columbuslibrary.org <mailto:gsyferd at columbuslibrary.org>
>
>
> On Jul 29, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Steve Owley <sowley at westervillelibrary.org 
> <mailto:sowley at westervillelibrary.org>> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> S.
>> *From:*oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org 
>> <mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org> 
>> [mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org 
>> <mailto: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
>> /Discover. Learn. Grow. <http://www.greenelibrary.info/>/
>> jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us <mailto:jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us>
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>> <http://www.youtube.com/greenelibrary><image004.jpg> 
>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/greene-library>
>> *From:*oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org 
>> <mailto: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 
>> <mailto:eliddle at marysvillelib.org>> wrote:
>> You can buy the cute kids mice and keyboards herehttp://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
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org 
>> <mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org>[oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org 
>> <mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org>] on behalf of Don Yarman 
>> [yarmando at delawarelibrary.org <mailto: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 <mailto: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 
>> <mailto: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 <tel:740-548-8070>(voice)
>> >866-214-6607 <tel:866-214-6607>(fax)
>> >
>> > Full LAN/WAN consulting services -- Specialized in libraries and schools
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