I have a MacBook Pro that I use at both home and school. I carry it back and forth between work and home each day.
As I arrive in my classroom and set up my computer, I take a few minutes each day to reconfigure this machine to work on my school’s network.
It takes 18 clicks, 18 clicks of the mouse to change the settings on my machine from the open computing environment of home, to the filtered, proxy-servered world of school. I know that on a Mac I can set this up automatically based on location; but I haven’t.
Those 18 clicks of the mouse when I arrive at school, and then again when I return home in the evenings, serve each day to remind me about open vs. closed learning environments.
Hi!
I’m really curious what some of those clicks are. I’ve brought my laptop to school over the years (at various different locations) and never had to configure it. Can you share?
Most of the clicks are setting up of proxy server settings and restarting software (such as tweet deck) that will not automatically move behind a firewall. The same thing needs to happen when I go home at night to undo the settings that I set up for my work day.
Researchers at MIT have developed a visual scripting language that looks like it could reduce your setup to 1 click. Hopefully you won’t miss the daily reminder of open vs. closed systems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDOlhysFcM