The technology bundle, for faculty participant's future teaching endeavors at the University. The technology bundle will be the property of the faculty member's department. Components include
hardware,
installted software, and
optional software.
Faculty who participate in the week-long program and indicate a preference for Windows platform technology will receive a Gateway M285-E Tablet PC. The computer will be provided to accepted participants prior to the Institute and used throughout the week.
The Gateway M285-E Tablet PC features include:
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Tablet Edition
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 (2.00 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 4MB L2 Cache)
- Screen: 14.0" WXGA (1280 x 768 maximum resolution, with rotating hinge for tablet functionality and Gateway Stylus with Continuous Sensing Technology)
- Graphics Controller: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 64MB with up to 256MB HyperMemory
- Memory: 2048 MB (667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
- Hard drive: 120 GB (5400 RPM Serial ATA)
- Optical drive: 8x Multi-Format Double Layer DVD Writer (DVD±R/±RW/CD-RW)
- Ports: USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), 56K modem, Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000), 802.11 a/b/g wireless, and built-in 7-in-1 media card reader (Memory Stick®, Memory Stick Pro®, MultiMediaCard™, Secure Digital™, xD Picture Card, Mini Secure Digital™:, RS-MultiMediaCard™), integrated microphone and speakers with support for external devices
- Battery life: up to six hours
- Weight (computer only, without case or accessories): 7.3 pounds
- Other: 3 year Notebook Total ProtectionPlan with Accidental Damage Protection
Find out more about the Gateway M285-E Tablet PC.
The complete hardware complement will include:
- Laptop carrying case with embroidered UD logo
- Logitech 350 noise-cancelling headset
- Flash memory stick, 1 gigabyte capacity
- Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 5000 USB wireless/rechargable mouse
- and a classroom cable connection kit with VGA, Ethernet, and audio cables.
A software bundle will be included to allow faculty to apply all of the teaching models and instructional strategies that will be demonstrated throughout the week.
Internet browsers and clients
- Feedreader news aggregator, version 3.09
- Internet Explorer web browser with search bar set to Google
- Mozilla Firefox web browser (default), version 2.0.0.3
- Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client
- SSH (Secure Shell) FTP and Telnet clients
- Multimedia players
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Edition (Tablet PC Installation) and Related Programs
- Access
- Excel
- InfoPath
- OneNote
- Outlook
- PowerPoint
- Publisher
- Word (set to save in Office 97-2003 format)
- Windows Journal
- Multimedia Development Tools
- Adobe Photoshop Elements
- Audacity version 1.2.6 is open source software for recording and editing sounds. This installation include LameLib version 3.9.7 for making MP3 files.
- Microsoft
MovieMaker
- Microsoft Photo Story 3
- NVU is a complete web authoring system to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
- Tablet PC Utilities
- Microsoft Education Pack
- Microsoft Experience Pack
- Adobe Acrobat Professional
- Other software
- AdAware, version 1.06
Java Runtime Environment, update 6
Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 software, version 10.5
McAfee VirusScan, 8.0i patch 13
Microsoft Intellimouse 5.5
Polycom video conferencing software, trial version
Spyware Blaster, version 3.5.1
VPN
The following software titles may be installed at your discretion. Installation assistance is available upon request during the Institute.
- Mathematics and statistics programs
- SPSS [available upon request]
- Maple [available upon request]
- Mathematica [available upon request]
- Matlab [available upon request]
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