Techno-News Blog Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield |
|
|
Technology News for Higher Education Times and Dates Coordinated Universal Time
Subscribe to Techno-News Blog by Email
|
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
http://www.idsnews.com/story.php?id=10896 Life with laptops at IU [Indiana University] 'dynamic' - Wireless computer nation expected in five years Takashi Nakamichi, Indiana Daily Student Ph.D. student Eric Ban sat at his dark Dell laptop in the Education Library and hovered the mouse-pointer over a printer icon. "I can send wireless to that printer -- anything I want," Ban said, gesturing at the library's printer. His laptop wasn't cabled at all, but the printer groaned and spat out the file he printed. IU [Indiana University] is becoming wireless. Since last year, some buildings have been made wireless-networked, including the Education Library, the Chemistry Library and the Undergraduate Library. At these libraries, students such as Ban can access printers and the Internet without hooking their computers up to a cable by using laptops equipped with transmission cards. Education professors say the pace of wireless conversion will pick up and advanced wireless technology will help improve teaching and learning considerably -- unless faculty shies away from the new approach....
Comments:
Post a Comment
|
