I hope all of you will plan to attend one of these events. For the
on-campus students at MSU, I would like for you to mark this date/time in
your book. It will be exciting, no doubt.
Larry S. Anderson, Ed.D. LSA1@Ra.MsState.Edu
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Technology & Education Voice: (601) 325-2281
Founder, National Center for Technology Planning Fax: (601) 325-7599
Mississippi State University
Chair, Council for Education Technology State of Mississippi
My personal home page URL-- http://www2.msstate.edu/~lsa1
NCTP web page -- http://www.nctp.com
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Subject: Apple Education Seminar Series in MS & LA
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Tech Updates in Education: A complementary seminar from Apple Computer,
Inc. ONLINE REGISTRATION INFORMATION BELOW
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WHEN: March 11th, 1999 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, SHREVEPORT, LA
WHERE: Louisiana State University Shreveport, Ballroom
WHEN: March 16th, 1999 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM, OXFORD, MS
WHERE: University of Mississippi, JD Williams Library
WHEN: March 17th, 1999 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM, STARKVILLE, MS
WHERE: Mississippi State University, Location TBD
WHEN: March 23rd, 1999 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM, JACKSON, MS
WHERE: The Education and Research Center, Mississippi ETV Auditorium, 3825
Ridgewood Road
WHEN: March 24th, 1999 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, NEW ORLEANS, LA
WHERE: Holiday Inn, Metairie at the southwest corner of I-10 & Causeway Blvd.
WHEN: March 25th, 1999 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, BATON ROUGE, LA
WHERE: Louisiana Center for Educational Technology on the campus of the
Louisiana School for the Deaf, 2758-D Brightside Lane
WHEN: March 30th, 1999 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, BILOXI, MS
WHERE: Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum and Convention Center, Room D6
WHEN: March 31st, 1999 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, HATTIESBURG, MS
WHERE: University of Southern Mississippi, Cook Union, Room B
WHEN: April 28th, 1999 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM, MONROE, LA
WHERE: Holiday Inn Atrium, Ballroom
FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SEMINARS IN YOUR AREA:
http://ed3.info.apple.com/, select Seminars, then select Southeast to
register for your specific area.
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What keeps educators thinking? Learning, of course. And, few things
impact learning in America's schools and universities today like
technology. Apple's technology leadership continues to spark new thinking
about technology's usage in education. "Tech Updates in Education" will
show you why. If you make technology recommendations for education, this
seminar is for you.
During this three hour forum you will see and experience these new
technologies:
*Power Macintosh G3 AV Minitowers...
*iMac...The best selling computer in America
*PowerPC G3 v. Pentium II - the speed gap widens
*Mac OS 8.5 - The "must-have" upgrade
*Mac OS X Server-A powerful media, internet and work group server
*Netboot - Makes network management as easy as 1-2-3
*USB and FireWire - The new industry standards for peripherals
*Windows 98 applications running on a Mac
*Integrating these new technologies into existing environments
For your convenience, there are two ways to register for our seminars in
a city near you, please call 800-800-2775 or visit our website at
http://ed3.info.apple.com/ and follow the seminar path to your local
presentation.
Come and see how these new technologies can improve performance and
accountability in your school(s) or universities.
Detail about our topics is below.
The new Power Macintosh G3 ...
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Multimedia like you've only dreamed about! Never before has so much
multimedia firepower been packed into such a beautiful, yet affordable
package. The new Power Macintosh G3 options provide you the best of
today's multimedia technology, plus tomorrow's hot new multimedia
technologies like FireWire, allowing you transfer video directly from a
digital video camera to your Power Mac G3 with zero loss of quality. No
secret settings. No restarting. No reconfiguring. Just plug it in, and
point and click. Creating multimedia has never been so simple!
PowerPC G3 v. Pentium II - the speed gap widens
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We apologize for toasting the Pentium II processor in public. But facts
are facts. BYTEmark tests prove that the Power Macintosh G3/400 is more
than twice as fast as the Compaq Deskpro Pentium II/450. The Power Mac
G3/350 & G3/300 are more than twice as fast as Pentium II/400 and Pentium
II/350 systems, respectively.
iMac...The best selling computer in America
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iMac is the best selling personal computer in America! Its innovative
design, along with its powerful G3 processor has boosted Apple's overall
retail market share to 10 percent, and Computer Retail Week named the
iMac the "hottest desktop computer of 1998." iMac delivers better
performance than comparably priced PCs, and its display is much crisper
and brighter. And now iMac is enhanced, with a faster 266Mhz G3
processor, 6GB hard drive, lower $1099 education price, classroom
friendly footprint and available in 5 delicious flavors. The perfect
computer for today's classroom or home. And the G3 chip in iMac can
outperform Pentium II/450 systems.
Mac OS 8.5 - The "must-have" upgrade
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Want to bring every Macintosh in your school to the head of the class?
Upgrade your Power Macintosh computers to the latest version of the Mac
OS. Then watch your students turn into information detectives! Sherlock,
a personal search detective in Mac OS 8.5, allows users to search for
information by document title or document content. Using plain English
queries, Sherlock can also search the most popular Internet search sites
simultaneously, quickly returning results ranked by relevancy. Mac OS
8.5 includes QuickTime 3, Apple's industry-leading software for digital
media publishing & play-back.
Announcing Mac OS X Server
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Mac OS X Server combines the proven strength of Unix with the simplicity
of Macintosh. Mac OS X Server is based on a new core operating system
that delivers higher performance and greater reliability and provides the
ideal server environment. File serving, web publishing, and network
management capabilities are easier than ever.
NetBoot
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A revolutionary new service included with Mac OS X Server software is
NetBoot, which makes managing a network of Macintosh computers as easy as
managing a single computer. With NetBoot, education institutions can keep
the operating system and applications stored on the NetBoot server, which
will automatically update all Macs on the network with a click of the
mouse. What does this mean for network administrators? Well, for starters
they'll probably be home in time for dinner!
USB and FireWire - The new industry standard for peripherals.
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Both USB and FireWire have become the new industry standards for
connecting peripherals. USB is great for keyboards, mice, low-cost ink
jet printers while FireWire is targeted at high end multimedia products
such as digital cameras, music synthesizers, and additional hard drives.
Both I/O technologies offer incredible convenience through their
'hot-plug' capability, eliminating any need to turn off or restart the
computer when attaching a new peripheral. For additional ease of use,
they also feature automatic configuration, no device ID's or terminators,
and simple-to-use cables.
Sherlock for the Internet - Your personal internet detective
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Ever wondered 'why the sky is blue?' Let Sherlock, a feature of Mac OS
8.5 find the answer for you. With Sherlock you can send your search
query, in plain English, to multiple search engines at once. Sherlock
reports the results in seconds, ranks the findings by relevance, and even
allows you to save your results for a later time.
Windows 98 applications running on a Macintosh
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Whether your operating system needs call for Mac or Windows, you can
count on the reliability of Macintosh performance to give you both. Some
features ship with every Mac, others require additional low cost software
to allow you to run both Windows apps and Mac apps on the same CPU. Of
course, that CPU is a Mac.
Integrating these new technologies into existing environments
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Apple has always, either through products of our own or by working with
third party developers, protected the investment in Apple as new
technologies emerge. Today, there is huge support in the technology
community for recent decisions on Apple's part regarding our choices of
both FireWire and USB as standards. Today, there are many options for the
blending of legacy systems and new products. During our seminar we will
show you how.
Wall Street and analysts agree - Apple is strong
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On January 13, 1999, Apple reported a quarterly net profit of $152
million. That included a 49% growth in units year-over-year, $2.5 billion
in cash and short-term investments, and sales of 519,000 iMac computers
during the quarter. "Unit growth year-over-year was three to four times
higher than the industry average," said Steve Jobs, Apple's interim CEO.Š
Copyright 1999 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, FireWire,
Mac, Macintosh, Power Macintosh, and QuickTime are registered trademarks,
and the Apple
Store, iMac, and Sherlock are trademarks, of Apple Computer, Inc. PowerPC
is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation, used under
license therefrom. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft.
Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel. Other product and company
names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.
Mention of third-party products is for informational purposes only and
constitutes neither a recommendation nor an endorsement.
Jennifer Packer, Education Technology Consultant
SchoolComputer.com
office: 601.948.1173 mail: jpacker@schoolcomputer.com
voice: 800.416.6338 extension 483 page: 601.364.0865
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