Google Products Updated - Fall 2010

So we have a small assortment of Google brand products installed on our workstation(s):

Sketchup 7.1
Earth 5 & Earth Plugin for Firefox
Picasa 3.6

We have disabled the desktop application and updates.
*if you notice the desktop app and/or updates for google running on ANY of our lab machines, please let us know!

Love the Smell of New MacBookPros

13" MacBook Pros for Check-Out!

Coming SOON!

And it only really pertains to staff and faculty (sorry, students)...
We will be offering 13" MacBook Pros for loaners *for presentations, classroom instruction, & guest speakers, etc. to replace the IBM ThinkPads & Apple G4 Laptops that we used to check-out.....
These new machines will be dual-boot (with SnowLeopard (MacOSX 10.6.x) and Windows XP SP3)... and will contain the basic presentation software, media codecs, and SMART board Notebook software.

We have finalized the deployment images and are testing them now...

I'm really not at liberty to say more, but expect them to be "reservable" starting the Fall 2010.

***And for students, sorry... i didn't mean to get your hopes up.
The Academic Computing Department at the Art Institute of Boston offers Laptops for Checkout.
AND, you can use one of many computers in our labs.

SMART *and others

Today, I gave a training/product Demo of the Whiteboard in UNIV-3-087 (the "math lab")*

*It's interesting.. this space is known as the "Math Lab"... because of the extra bits of hardware in it:  it contains a SMART board, and a document camera.... FANCY.

I digress.

I was basically showing some folks from the Reading Recovery program the most basic features of the "Begs-to-be-touched" board and screen capturing.  They had asked me before during a conference where an outside guest came-in to show-off her curricular materials.

We currently possess 2x SMART-brand smart-boards (UNIV-2-141 & UNIV-3-087) and a PolyVision Interactive Whiteboard* (UNIV-2-078) which I can get into later.. *ugh.

To make a long-story short:
Running an interactive SMART board, you will need 3 things:

1. a Mac or PC (either will do, the requirements vary,....)
2. SMART Notebook software  --- Note:  you can probably download it from this site as a "trial.".. But if you are a Faculty or Staff, you will get access to our Lesley University license... which includes upgrades FOR LIFE. ^_^.
3. a USB Cable.

The rest is up to calibration and finding a way to make materials "interactive".... *good luck with that.

The eLearning & Instructional Support (eLIS) department would be a good place to start.

At any rate...

Cheers.

Useful links:

http://smarttech.com/

Spring is Underway! (Imported)

Well, folks. It's been an interesting first few weeks of school.
We would like to thank everyone for their patience and for your support!



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And be sure to message us with @lesleylabs
You can check maintenance status, equipment reservation status, and hardware/software updates!

Preparation for Spring 2010 (Imported)

Howdy, folks---
We are well under-way in restoring our fresh image across campus;  In addition, we are cleaning and reorganizing the learning spaces.
So far, areas that are completed are:

Wolfard 203;  Wolfard 204

Please be on the look-out for our new blue desktops!

AND, feel free to report any non-functioning workstations to UT by contacting:
617.349.8770
ut@lesley.edu

Thanks!

313 REIMAGED

Warning: The content on this post was written while Richard Phung, the Labs & Classrooms Coordinator, held the title of Computer Lab Technician at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.... the content expressed here is out of date, at best.

we loaded a new image onto the computers in room 313:
image from July 28, 2009

for whole lab, the image process took about 30 minutes
we created 2 partitions: AIB-HD (40GB) and Temporary Storage (~112GB)

Post Installation:
Renamed Computers
System Preference > Sharing

Changed Permissions to Ignore Ownership on Temporary Storage

Installed Deep Freeze via Remote Desktop

316 REIMAGED

Warning: The content on this post was written while Richard Phung, the Labs & Classrooms Coordinator, held the title of Computer Lab Technician at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.... the content expressed here is out of date, at best.

we loaded a new image onto the computers in room 316:
image from July 28, 2009

for whole lab, the image process took about 40 minutes
we created 2 partitions: AIB-HD (40GB) and Temporary Storage (~220GB)

Post Installation:
Renamed Computers
System Preference > Sharing

Changed Permissions to Ignore Ownership on Temporary Storage

Installed Deep Freeze via Remote Desktop