If your school needs some old Mac equipment, please let
me know. I will email it to the
MacInSchool email list and post it here. Thanks!
Dan Knight
,
publisher, Low End Mac
I am desperately in need of a Mac. I am a teacher at
McDill Elementary in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Our school
is woefully lacking in equipment. We are full of 386's
that don't do much except run old games and act as
typewriters - when they work. I'm trying hard to
implement technology projects in my classroom, such as
those using web pages, Kid Pix and the like, but have no
resources. Any Mac will do, but I've been told an '040 or
above is really what I should be shooting for.
We in Salem, Massachusetts, would like to receive any
Mac out there that is in working order that anyone would
like to donate. We're accepting anything post-Apple IIGS.
Thanks,
I work in a program for students with emotional
problems at Lamphere Schools, in Madison Heights,
Michigan. This particular group are very bright, love
computers, and they need an external CD for use with a
IIsi and IIci to load programs. Any help would be
appreciated by the students. Fred
Olds
St. Helens, Oregon
I am the yearbook advisor at St. Helens Senior High
in St. Helens, Oregon (near Portland). We complete a
digitally published yearbook - all on Macs. We use a
wide variety (Classic through iMac) and would gladly
accept any donated machines, printers, or other
peripherals (mice, keyboards, monitors, cables, etc.).
Our school is given no yearbook budget, and I will
happily provide any donor with a letter for your taxes. I
would also like to point out that most schools that use
computers for their yearbook, publish on Macs and could
probably use the donation. I can be reached at my school
(503) 397-1900, address Ron
Barnett, SHHS, 2375 Gable Rd, St. Helens, OR
97051.
Central Wisconsin
I live in central Wisconsin and know of two Christian
schools just starting
up (12 workstations needed for one, 15 for the other)
in my neck of the woods.
All they currently have are 486 PCs with 2 MB RAM for
some of the students,
nothing for others. If possible, I'd like to help
these people "turn from
the dark side" and use the #1 education computer.
If anyone has, or knows of, Mac equipment and/or
peripherals to donate, I'd
I am a 6-8 teacher in a small (170 students) rural
school near Stockton, California. I have purchased and
received donations of some old Macs which I have
networked and online in my classroom. I would like to
have more machines in the other two upper grade
classrooms as well as the primary classrooms.
Our school in Prescott, Arizona, is in need of a
computer lab. We are in a very small school, with
extremely limited facilities, and we do not have a room
available for a lab. So we have decided to use laptops to
take the lab to the classes. We could sure use laptops!
Lynne
Hayward, California
I work in an elementary school in Hayward,
California. We've got a computer lab stocked with Macs,
but almost no computers in classrooms. I'd be most
interested to know about any possible donations so that
we could put some in classrooms. For most of the things
we do with the kids, old slow machines work just
fine.
I teach in Oxford School in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We
are supposed to be a progressive school but we have no
useable Mac computers. I have managed to scrounge a
couple of dozen PCs to set up a lab in my classroom. The
Halifax Regional School Board is sending reconditioned
PCs to the schools and setting them up on the Internet.
These machines are all 486s and only have 4 megs memory
which is not very useful for running any programmes. I am
using them as word processors and very slow Internet
access for my students in health issues and social
studies. I hope there is some way you can help.
I am the head of the Sanger High School Science
Department. We are an active member in several Science
clubs and the TMSCA (Texas Math Science Coaches
Association). We are looking for PowerBooks (any model)
to take with us on the Math/Science meets and other
places to aid us in our study of Science. I'd be much
appreciative for anything that you could do. Thanks.
(P.S. Our Math/Science team is around 30 members . . . so
as many PowerBooks as you could get would be great.
Thanks!)
This is just an hour north of Low End Mac/MacInSchool
headquarters. dk
I am searching for PowerBooks to set up a mobile
computer lab for our school. I would like the lab to
circulate throughout our K-3 school so that teachers can
work with students on grade level software during class
time.
Currently we have a computer lab in which each student
receives 30 minutes of class time per week. If we create
a mobile lab, students would be able to practice some of
the skills introduced during the weekly 30 minute period
of lab training.
Anyone interested in donating PowerBooks may contact me
through my home email address or by calling MacNaughton
Elementary after September 1st.
Dennis
Nielsen MacNaughton Elementary School Tri-County Area Schools Box 189 Walnut Street Howard City, MI 49329 616 937-4380 616 937-4442 Fax
Kaukauna Area Schools,
Wisconsin
The Kaukauna Area School District is seeking
donations for Macintosh equipment, 68030 processor or
newer (including SE/30).
We'd like to put the older Macs to good use as word
processors and increase student access to computers.
Jim
Geoffrey, Technology Coordinator Kaukauna Area School District geoffreyj@kaukauna.k12.wi.us
New Orleans, Louisiana
I teach computer literacy at Orleans Parish in New
Orleans, Louisiana. We have 486 and Pentium systems, but
no Macs! I actually brought my own G3 in for three days
last year to show the kids a real computer, but I'm
afraid too much travel may wear on my baby.
Any Power Mac would be greatly appreciated. If I got more
than I could use, we have many teachers who prefer Mac --
but our system has gone totally IBM. Lets save them!
Old Mac equipment is needed for the Deer Valley High
School science department in Antioch, California. We can
use any Mac Plus up to a Beige G3 for our Vernier
Software sensor equipment. Of course, we'd like to get
Blue and White G3 computers with hard drives and ethernet
cards, but we'll use what we can get!
Our goal is to put eight computers in every science
classroom. We have the sensors, but we have no money to
pay for shipping. We can use decapitated PowerBooks, too,
as we have a number of homeless monitors we could rig up
to them. All functional donations are welcome including
keyboards, monitors, mice, ADB cables, external hard
drives, external CD-ROMs, etc.
Also, if there are any old Universal Lab Interfaces or
Serial Port Interfaces for Vernier science equipment,
we'll happily take them off your hands.
Thanks, Jeff Adkins Co-Chair, Deer Valley HS Science Dept.
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
I'm the tech training specialist for Stevens Point
Schools. Mine is a unique situation in that until two
years ago schools were barred from buying Macs. Thank
goodness that has changed due to a change in
administration. I have been working here a year and have
been trying hard to get Macs in the schools. I'm trying
to put together a mobile Mac lab to rotate through the
various schools for teachers to have for a period of
time. I'm looking for 5-10 '040 or higher Macs. Any help
you can give would be appreciated. Feel free to call or
email.
I am a Social Studies Teacher at Miami Springs Middle
School, Miami Dade County Schools, Miami, Florida. We are
in need of around 10-14 Mac systems (computer, monitor,
keyboard, and mouse) with ethernet (card or built-in).
Prefer 040/Quadra or early Power Mac.
Gone fishing for the summer, 6/13/00.
"Even on the Macintosh, where things are generally considered to be
easier, Murphy's Law seems to work overtime."
Advice presented in good faith, but what works for one may not work
for all. Computers are like that. Please report errors to
Dan Knight
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