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> 1. HiEd purchasing site going away (Corey Carson)
> 2. iPad study at Notre Dame (Corey Carson)
> 3. iPad survey in enterprise (Corey Carson)
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> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:48:23 -0700
> From: Corey Carson <
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> Subject: [Rockies-Edu] HiEd purchasing site going away
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> Greetings,
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> This message is strictly for HiEd customers in Colorado and Wyoming. Others can delete.
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> AppleRockies.com will expire on Feb. 20, 2011 and we will not be renewing that site. A "warning" message has been posted for a year now, and it will go away entirely in February. If you have purchasers or end users that are still using
applerockies.com, please forward this email to ensure they aren't surprised (and lost) when their links go away.
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> On the site, it states:
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> ATTENTION: AppleRockies.com will expire on February 20, 2011. The intention of this site is to guide you to your online custom store so that you can bookmark it for easier access going forward. You can continue to pay using your ACARD or PCARD by clicking on the link below and selecting your institution.
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> Once you follow the proper links below to your custom store, please bookmark it so that you don’t have to rely on this site anymore. You’ll then have quicker access to your online store going forward.
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> I know that 10% of users will actually read that warning, but hey, here's to hoping. If you have questions, just let me know. Once people get to their online store and bookmark that site, we shouldn't have issues or any external portals causing confusion any longer. Thanks for your help!
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> Corey
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> Corey Carson • Systems Engineer
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> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:02:47 -0700
> From: Corey Carson <
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> Subject: [Rockies-Edu] iPad study at Notre Dame
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> All,
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> This is the first time I've posted a success story on the rockies list. When on-site with customers, I'm often asked about such success stories, who's doing what with <product> in the classroom, and how it's impacted their environment. Here is one such story. Since hitting the delete button is pretty easy when things aren't completely relevant to some, I'm going to begin posting education stories like this. A couple of rules that I will follow:
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> 1. The competition will not get bashed.
> 2. Apple technology will be bragged about (without blatant sales talk).
> 3. If it's not relevant to education, I won't post it.
> 4. The strong majority of what's posted will be articles (meaning nothing written by me while standing on a soapbox).
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> If you've got some personal opinions on this approach, please feel free to shoot me an email, or just reply to this and the list will see it. If you like it, great. If a lot of people oppose this kind of stuff on the rockies list, we'll be happy to take another approach.
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> Thanks,
> Corey
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> Corey Carson • Systems Engineer
> ☎ 303 378-7193 • ☎ 800 800-2775 (Support)
> Apple Education • CO/WY/ID
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>>> Notre Dame Calls Early Results Of IPad Study Encouraging
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>>> (online at
http://blogs.forbes.com/ )
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>>> In late August, the University of Notre Dame handed 40 students an Apple iPad as part of a year-long study of e-readers. Though it is still early, the school says its first survey of the test group already points to high satisfaction with the device.
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>>> Students in the school’s Project Management course are using the iPads in place of conventional textbooks while they conduct seven-week-long special projects. Corey Angst, an Assistant Professor of Management, who is teaching the class, says he expects students to tap their iPads to write and share documents, take notes and show plans to their project “clients”. He plans to ask the students throughout the semester how they are adapting to the change.
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>>> The results could be useful for other schools that are considering adopting iPads or other tablets in the classroom. Notre Dame will rotate the iPads among different groups, including selected freshmen and law school students, next semester. Its eventual goal is to create an “e-publishing ecosystem” for the entire university.
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>>> Angst says the first survey of his students was more encouraging than he had expected. It found that the majority was comfortable with their iPads and utilizing them regularly within the first two weeks of use. Asked “How would you rate your skill level of using the iPad?”, 50% responded “some [what skilled]“, 35% said “quite extensive[ly skilled]” and 8% said “very extensive[ly skilled]“.
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>>> Though they were only tasked with using the iPad in Angst’s class, students reported employing it elsewhere. More than half said they were using the iPads to do all of the reading for the Project Management course and that they had turned to the iPad to do some reading for other classes, as well as for non-academic reading.
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>>> Students also said they were reading the articles assigned for the course on their iPads rather than printing them, which was another hoped-for benefit of the switch. Notre Dame is calling the class the school’s first “paperless” course.
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>>> For a good number of students, this iPad reading added up to multiple hours on the gadget a day. More than half of them said they brought their iPads to class every day, including days they did not have the Project Management course.
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>>> Angst had anticipated slightly more negative feedback. “In [Information Technology] research, we almost always see a slight dip in satisfaction after a couple weeks of usage,” he notes. “In this case, we saw very little of that.”
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>>> Polled on the benefits of incorporating iPads into the class, a majority agreed that the device “encouraged exploration of additional topics,” “provided functions/tools that are not possible with a traditional textbook” and “made the coursework more interesting.” Others added that the iPads improved collaboration among team members, helped them stay organized and–as a replacement for a textbook and/or laptop–made their bags and backpacks much lighter.
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>>> The students did have some quibbles. A few worried about the effects of spending so much time looking at a computer screen. Others admitted that the iPad, with its wealth of applications and games and its Web browser, could be distracting. One noted that it was more difficult to highlight text on an iPad than in a regular book.
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>>> Overall, however, Angst says the school is “very happy with where this appears to be going.”
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> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:18:59 -0700
> From: Corey Carson <
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> Subject: [Rockies-Edu] iPad survey in enterprise
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> Since education environments have a more "enterprise" look and feel than most enterprises, I found this relevant to share.
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> Enjoy,
> Corey
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> Survey on iPad in enterprise
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> (online at
http://www.zdnet.com/ )
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> An informal survey of more than 5,000 Citrix customers point to the popularity of the iPad among businesses and the enterprise, and to the still spotty response by IT management for access to company resources.
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> Support within organizations appears strong: some 72 percent of respondents said they currently have access to corporate resources. More than 60 percent of respondents said they were prepared to purchase an iPad for work. Company purchases of iPads came to 43 percent.
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> The number of people depending on the iPad and using it daily (46 percent) is remarkable given it’s only been on the market for 7 months. In fact 13 percent say the iPad is mission critical for their job. If a business can increase employee productivity and respond faster to customers, the payback can be significant.
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> The look on the upside is revealing: 88 percent said the iPad increases the means to work remotely, whether at home or “anywhere.” A close second place was the iPad’s help in increasing productivity and computing satisfaction. And more than half of respondents (59.3 percent) said that it allowed access to business applications and documents while keeping data secure. Perhaps this last item is all about the remote wipe capability of the iPad.
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> Some respondents (32 percent) appear to believe they can do without some other computing devices (likely notebooks). A similar number believe that the friendly iPad needs less tech support than PCs.
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> Of the respondents whose company IT organizations aren’t supporting iPad access to corporate servers, the Top 5 reasons were the following:
> Security lead the way with 63.4 percent.
> Company policies say no to company data stored on any hardware other than a company PC (37.3 percent).
> The iPad is a “non-standard device (36.6 percent).
> The iPad doesn’t support corporate applications (24.1 percent).
> Lack of resources or skill to support it (23.9).
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> Other reasons included problems meeting compliance requirements, the view that the iPad is an entertainment device, BlackBerry-only shops, belief that you can’t run Windows applications on an iPad, and lack of technology to support the iPad.
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> The vast majority of those currently out of luck on the access front (77 percent) want their organizations to permit access for their personal iPads. The story on corporate purchases (as opposed to employees buying their own) was a bit mixed with a 56.9 percent response.
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