This is to document a laptop issue so far.
In moving to using the high school campus, we had some problems getting online and in checking email.
For getting online, the proxy settings had to be reset for both Internet Explorer and then on Mozilla Firefox which had to be installed on each laptop. Firefox was installed because the Texas State site recommends we use it over IE for accessing Blackboard. So, for every laptop, we had to set the proxy address to go through the district settings. We also had to train PTEP participants on how to reset the proxy settings when they were home so they could access any other network at home or Starbucks or wherever.
Another issue was not having Groupwise installed on the laptops. This caused a problem because notes sent from Dr. Summers went to our Groupwise accounts and we could not access GW through the web because we were in-district. Joel solved this by installing Groupwise on each laptop during lunch.
This may be against some protocol for IS to install Groupwise, but it did help the PTEP class go more smoothly once we had it. Novell is not installed on the computers so there are no worries about non-Deep Freeze machines getting on the servers.
Anyone else in class have any comments?
I am now testing the Safari browser for Windows on my computer. I will let you know if I notice any issues with the PTEP programs using it.
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I suggested that we get Adobe Acrobat Professional loaded on all the laptops so that you can all use the commenting tools and search tools in the program. With Adobe Pro, you can create little Post-it notes in each article we read that stay embedded in each PDF. There are highlighting tools there as well.
Also, I inquired about digital voice recorders for the group since that seems to be coming up when we talk about questioning or interviewing people/groups in our research.
If you think of more "technical" stuff that we can use, post it here or comments about what we have already.
We have also noticed no DVD playing software on the computers even though they have DVD drives. I am loading VLC Media Player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - which is an Open Source player for all media on them as I can.
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