All Discussions Tagged 'wireless' - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T11:54:38Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=wireless&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIt’s College Football Season…Time to Stock Up on Wings, Chips and…Wireless?tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-09-25:649749:Topic:9706512013-09-25T18:26:42.356ZAnthony Sargonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/AnthonySargon
<p>Originally published on <a href="http://themodernnetwork.com/mobile/its-college-football-seasontime-to-stock-up-on-wings-chips-andwireless/" target="_blank">The Modern Network</a></p>
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<p>The football season has kicked off for both the NFL and NCAA. Across America, alumni are flocking back to their alma maters on Saturdays to watch their schools’ football teams compete – regardless of their talent level or place in the standings.</p>
<p>For colleges and universities with popular…</p>
<p>Originally published on <a href="http://themodernnetwork.com/mobile/its-college-football-seasontime-to-stock-up-on-wings-chips-andwireless/" target="_blank">The Modern Network</a></p>
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<p>The football season has kicked off for both the NFL and NCAA. Across America, alumni are flocking back to their alma maters on Saturdays to watch their schools’ football teams compete – regardless of their talent level or place in the standings.</p>
<p>For colleges and universities with popular football programs, the football season is an incredible money-making opportunity thanks to merchandise and ticket sales. However, the rush of students and alumni onto campus, into parking lots for tailgates and into the stadium to watch the game comes with a large number of challenges.</p>
<p>We’re constantly talking to decision makers and network administrators at colleges and universities, and we’re continually hearing about how the game day experience has changed for attendees. With these changes have come new demands on the school and its IT infrastructure.</p>
<p>Unlike in the past – when tailgating required a grill, some frozen hamburger patties, a beverage and MAYBE a football – today’s tailgaters show up with mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Although many of these devices are connected to mobile networks, football fans will be looking for the faster, more reliable connection of campus wireless networks for the functionality and capabilities they crave.</p>
<p>Just what capabilities are we talking about?</p>
<p>Spectators are looking to watch pregame shows on their mobile devices. When the pregame is over, they’re looking to watch other games that involve rivals or are important for BCS rankings in real time. They’re looking to take and post pictures and videos of their revelry on Facebook, Vine, Instagram and Twitter. They’re even watching the live coverage of the game they’re attending – from the stands – to hear commentary, get a field-level view and keep track of stats. All of these things are bandwidth hogs that perform better and more seamlessly over a college’s wireless network than over a carrier’s 3G or 4G network – if that school network can handle it.</p>
<p>Network administrators have to consider a few things to ensure that the network is prepared to handle this influx of alumni and students. First, they need to be sure to have the appropriate radio access points in and around the stadium to handle the sheer volume of users and mobile devices. Not ensuring that the appropriate amount of access points are available will result in a degradation of the signal and a poor experience for everyone.</p>
<p>When figuring out how many access points are needed, it’s essential to overprovision. They need to establish and identify the most conceivable mobile devices that would be connecting to the network and then plan for even more. They also need to be sure to provide coverage not just to the stadium, but the parking lots and areas around it.</p>
<p>Next, a system needs to be put in place to ensure that the bandwidth is there to support these devices, when needed.</p>
<p>Most college football games fall on Thursday nights and Saturdays. The wireless network that has been created in and around the stadium is most likely overkill on weeks when the team is away and on the days when there isn’t a game. It’s important that the schools can shift bandwidth to and from this part of the network based on demand, since it would be a waste of computing resources when spectators aren’t present. Being able to power down some of the radio access points needed to get the signal density required for a game day could also save the school a lot of money in power bills.</p>
<p>Luckily, automated processes are possible in today’s software defined networks (SDNs) that can enable schools to reconfigure the network seamlessly depending on a number of factors, including day and time. This will automatically move bandwidth and computer resources to the section of the network covering the stadium and its surrounding area on game days and away from places like academic buildings and dorms where they won’t be needed.</p>
<p>The college football experience isn’t what it used to be. The hot dogs are still there, but now they’re being juggled from hand-to-hand with a beverage and an iPad. To ensure that all alumni, students and other football fans have the game-day experience they desire, it’s now essential that schools offer more than concessions and sweatshirts – they must deliver a strong wireless network as well.</p> A Wired Campustag:www.classroom20.com,2012-08-27:649749:Topic:8689772012-08-27T22:23:06.142ZDiana Hansenhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/DianaHansen
<p>What are you doing to make your campus more wired? <a href="http://bit.ly/SOYwlT">http://bit.ly/SOYwlT</a></p>
<p>What are you doing to make your campus more wired? <a href="http://bit.ly/SOYwlT">http://bit.ly/SOYwlT</a></p> Wireless Mouse that will allow more than click and pointtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-02-27:649749:Topic:4404772010-02-27T22:14:24.486ZJeanae Graveshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/JeanaeGraves586
<p>I am wondering if there is a wireless mouse that will allow more than left click, right click and point. In other words, I want to be able to use is kind of like an Interwrite Pad or Smart Slate. I want to be able to click on the highlighter in a Smart Notebook file and highlight or click on an object and move it. Surely there is a gadget that allows this!</p>
<p>I am wondering if there is a wireless mouse that will allow more than left click, right click and point. In other words, I want to be able to use is kind of like an Interwrite Pad or Smart Slate. I want to be able to click on the highlighter in a Smart Notebook file and highlight or click on an object and move it. Surely there is a gadget that allows this!</p> $99 DIY Smartboardtag:www.classroom20.com,2009-12-08:649749:Topic:4176142009-12-08T14:05:38.696ZJoe Schuchhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/JoeSchuch
<p><a href="http://av-1.typepad.com/insider/2009/12/diy-smartboard-for-90-.html"><img alt="Click for full article" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8354695d253ef0128761d8288970c" src="http://av-1.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8354695d253ef0128761d8288970c-120wi" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px;" title="Click for full article"></img></a> There is no denying the appeal of interactive whiteboards: to interact directly with the image transcends the mouse-and-keyboard experience, opening opportunities for memorable learning experiences. </p>
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<p>What if you could get most of what you needed for less than $100 instead of $2k-10k for an off-the-shelf smartboard? Might that be <em>good enough</em>?…</p>
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<p><a href="http://av-1.typepad.com/insider/2009/12/diy-smartboard-for-90-.html"><img alt="Click for full article" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8354695d253ef0128761d8288970c" src="http://av-1.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8354695d253ef0128761d8288970c-120wi" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px;" title="Click for full article"/></a> There is no denying the appeal of interactive whiteboards: to interact directly with the image transcends the mouse-and-keyboard experience, opening opportunities for memorable learning experiences. </p>
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<p>What if you could get most of what you needed for less than $100 instead of $2k-10k for an off-the-shelf smartboard? Might that be <em>good enough</em>?</p>
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<p><span style="background-color: #bfdfff;"><a href="http://av-1.typepad.com/insider/2009/12/diy-smartboard-for-90-.html" title="Click for full article">This AV-1 article</a> describes how to achieve smartboard functionality on any kind of display, using only a $40 Wii video game controller and a few parts from Radio Shack.</span></p>
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<a href="http://av-1.typepad.com/insider/2009/12/diy-smartboard-for-90-.html">http://av-1.typepad.com/insider/2009/12/diy-smartboard-for-90-.html</a><p></p> Wireless Microphone for Smartboard Recordingtag:www.classroom20.com,2009-12-02:649749:Topic:4144092009-12-02T18:00:13.463ZStuhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Stu
Hi all,<br />
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I got the go ahead to purchase a few wireless microphones for the purpose of having teachers record their lessons/procedures to post to the web etc.<br />
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Any suggestions on models etc? I see some that are really cheap and others that are really expensive. The distance between computer and board would be 15-20 at the most. Many are within 10 feet.<br />
Thanks<br />
Stu
Hi all,<br />
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I got the go ahead to purchase a few wireless microphones for the purpose of having teachers record their lessons/procedures to post to the web etc.<br />
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Any suggestions on models etc? I see some that are really cheap and others that are really expensive. The distance between computer and board would be 15-20 at the most. Many are within 10 feet.<br />
Thanks<br />
Stu Network Setuptag:www.classroom20.com,2008-09-13:649749:Topic:1888162008-09-13T06:46:38.437ZVicky Shttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/VickyS
I am so network illiterate that I don't really even know what to ask so I'll try to describe our current setup and what we are trying to accomplish. We currently have a wired network in the computer lab and one wireless router which connects 3 computers in the school office - the computer lab is right next door to the school office.<br />
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I am trying to research what I would need to connect the rest of the classrooms in to the network wirelessly. We would need the 21-22 computers in the lab plus 2-3…
I am so network illiterate that I don't really even know what to ask so I'll try to describe our current setup and what we are trying to accomplish. We currently have a wired network in the computer lab and one wireless router which connects 3 computers in the school office - the computer lab is right next door to the school office.<br />
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I am trying to research what I would need to connect the rest of the classrooms in to the network wirelessly. We would need the 21-22 computers in the lab plus 2-3 in the office plus probably any 4 or 5 others to be able to all access the Internet at the same time if possible so that a classroom could be on the Internet at the same time we were using it in the lab and the staff in the office was using it too.<br />
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We are a small school with one 2 story building that has 9 classrooms (one of these is the computer lab on the lower floor) and the school offices and one 1 story building with 6 classrooms which is across a small expanse of lawn from the 2 story building. I don't have exact dimensions of the grounds and buildings at this point.<br />
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I know what we have is not powerful enough to let those in the 1 story building connect in because we've attempted this with a laptop in the past and couldn't get a signal. I'm not sure if it's even powerful enough to allow the upstairs classrooms to connect in.<br />
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What do I need to know in order to determine what equipment we need to purchase? Suggestions anyone? And do you have any idea what something like what we would need would cost? Wireless! Applications and Suggestionstag:www.classroom20.com,2007-06-20:649749:Topic:287482007-06-20T22:07:10.915Zwallowamichaelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/wallowamichael
Good afternoon!<br />
I'm the IT director, so not into the instructional side so much. I'm asking for help for my teachers.<br />
I have just received funding to make portions of my school campuses wireless. I have the ability to give guest access to the Internet and secure access to students and faculty.<br />
What I'd like is suggestions on how to use wireless either in the classroom or in common areas using laptops, pdas, etc., to enhance instruction/learning. Like I said, I'm from the technology side and am…
Good afternoon!<br />
I'm the IT director, so not into the instructional side so much. I'm asking for help for my teachers.<br />
I have just received funding to make portions of my school campuses wireless. I have the ability to give guest access to the Internet and secure access to students and faculty.<br />
What I'd like is suggestions on how to use wireless either in the classroom or in common areas using laptops, pdas, etc., to enhance instruction/learning. Like I said, I'm from the technology side and am searching for a way to make this a great surprise for the teachers and kids when they get back, but I need suggestions so they'll use it rather than letting it sit idle.<br />
Thanks in advance for all your help.