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Lenovo ThinkPad X130e first glance

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The new Lenovo ThinkPad X130e laptop just arrived in my office today. I’ve been hearing great things from Lenovo about this unit, and how it’s 100% built around school environments. So far it appears to be built like a tank. I have hit the screen fairly hard with my fist, but the Corning Gorilla Glass deflected the blows. The rubber bumpers protected it from a 4-foot fall onto the floor. I think this can take all of the rigors of a school environment. Stay tuned.

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x130e-intel/

BYOT for Adult Education?

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We have started looking into BYOT (bring your own technology) for our Adult Education students. During the last orientation session, we asked for a show of hands who would prefer to use their own computer rather than one we provide and charge them for. About 3/4 of the students would prefer to use their own device. That was far more students than we had anticipated, and feel that we should start looking into BYOT for them.

It’s interesting hearing other schools planning for BYOT who don’t have a 1 to 1 program already, and all of the things they are needing to consider. It’s been 7 years since we were at that point, and I’ve forgotten how much there is to plan for. Simply adding a BYOT option to a 1 to 1 program feels like picking a paint color rather than building a house.

Good luck to all schools planning a BYOT project, there is a ton of planning to do!

Dont need to re-image MacBooks over the summer

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Every summer since we started our laptop program, my department spends a week or two (or has summer help) re-imaging the returning student computers. We have done this because the Windows machines have been so junked up and needed to be cleaned up. We simply don’t have that problem with the MacBooks. We will need to run software updates, and maybe install a couple applications, but we can use ARF for that.

That being said, we still may re-image them simply because we are making some changes to our master image. The point is, we don’t NEED to re-image them.