Pen Drives

Ollie Bray

Saturday 10 June 2006

It strikes me that most young people these days really need a pen drive to survive at secondary school. Particularly as some of the new East Lothian machines don’t have disk drives on them any more. We have all been given pen drives at the conference (containing the conference notes and presentations – good idea). The pen drives have been personalised with the Xchange logo on them and will make a good memento.

However, this has got me thinking I wonder how much it would cost to bulk by some personalised (DGS, MGS, exc-el logo?) pen drives (500?) and then sell them at cost within school.

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Pen Drives for Schools

Barney

Thursday 15 June 2006

Hi Ollie,

In my opinion encouraging Pen/portable usb drive in schools could be a big mistake. The BBC recently reported on this from a corporate point of view, however it still holds some relevance http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4087240.stm . I'm not sure what the best solution is but I certainly like the way you're thinking. Ewan could be right, the best solution could be a well structured online resource database.

A bit Scargill?

Alan

Sunday 11 June 2006

Surely pens for all minors would be the only conceivable slogan?

Conference Pen Drives

Ewan

Saturday 10 June 2006

Do you not think that pen drives at conferences are a hellish waste of money, when all the content could/should be / is put online? After all, one of the aims of the original conference last year was to get all participants blogging about the difference they made in education - none of the blog now.

I would prefer to see Becta or LTScotland plough the money into pen drives for all students who NEED them for free. Who would need them? Those with computers but no internet access at home. Am I being a bit Scargill or is there something in this that is rightly unjust?

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