Carolyn Thomas

Indiana’s Sakai Priorities Committee

Roundbox Global (sent by Kamran Ziai)

A pair of business honors freshmen have launched a new online course management system that brings together ideas from Blackboard and Facebook, allowing students to keep up with classes and course work.

Victor Ramon and Jefferson Stein have developed Studeous, which allows teachers and students to communicate on the Web through a program the two said is easier to use than any other programs available. It has more features on it than others of its kind, and it is free to use.

Quick Answers:

* Studeous is free for students and teachers
* Students register and enroll themselves, but you can set it so you have to approve them (if you want)
* You can create as many class pages as you want
* Your class pages are private and you have complete
* control over who can access them You have unlimited storage space
* Other teachers and students at your school can join, and your school will soon develop its own private “network”.

Today, I installed VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro. It took 3 tries though. Here are the settings for the third attempt that installed successfully:

1. Changed my user account on Mac to administrator.
2. Used the Advanced options to Allocate 20 GB all at once.
3. Selected the Read & Write option to access files by both Mac and Windows.

Note: successful installs should have no error messages. If you get error messages, just remove the virtual machine by default in /Documents/ and start over.

Before you start this process though, download the XP version of Norton Security install program and save it to your Mac desktop. Then, when you start the Fusion - XP installation process, disconnect the Ethernet and turn off Airport. This way no viruses can access your machine until you install the Virus Detector and Firewall systems.

After this is installed, reconnect Ethernet or Airport and download all XP updates.

Then after restarting, install XP apps as needed (and then install the updates for those apps).

Time frame:
Successful install of XP, Norton, and all updates - 1 hr.