[K12OSN] Room Layout

[Petre Scheie]

Ray-
How many outlets are on that power cord from Home Depot?  How much do they cost?

Petre

Ray Garza wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 17:05, Daniel Kuecker wrote:
>> Hello All!
>>
>> I am trying to figure out how to best implement thin clients in a
>> classroom and not a lab. i have been searching the net for some floor
>> plans that others may be using, but cannot find much. i want to make
>> these permanent in the classroom, and try to minimize distraction from
>> an LCD panel on the desk, maybe under the desk with glass top? Currently
>> our desks are individual desks, some that the top flips open, some not.
>> I am also trying to figure out the bast way to get ethernet jacks and
>> power to the desks or cluster of desk. I have toyed with possibly
>> bunlding the ehternet and extension cords and rolling them out on the
>> floor, but i do not know if there would be interferance from the power
>> cords and plus it doesnt sound like a good permanent solution. What are
>> you guys doing?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Daniel Kuecker
>>
> Hmm, I saw a picture of someone's room where they got the computer desks along 
> the three walls (facing the wall) and regular desks in the middle of the room 
> facing the teacher for non computing work.
> 
> Here at the Library our computers are in table clusters with power and 
> eithernet cabling running underground from the wiring closets to the tables. 
> Of course the floorplan was designed that way when the new building was 
> constructed. The old building was renovated to meet the same conditions but 
> that meant a jackhammer to carve out a trench to lay the pipes. I don't think 
> you want to go that route :)
> 
> I think for simplicity sake and avoidance of trip hazards, setting up around 
> the perimiter of the room would be a good solution.  Maybe you can do the 
> same as  the 1st paragraph but turn the computers around to face the teacher 
> and move the desks away from the wall to create room to walk around and sit.
> You can then snake the power and lan cabling from one side all the way to the 
> other end and have only one area exposed as a trip hazard. 
> 
> Home Depot sell a 25 ft power cord with connections every 3-4 ft. We use those 
> in our laptop lab.
> 
> Just some ideas to toss around.
> 
> -ray