Can students plug in and use printers, scanners, digital cameras, and camcorders at home?
In most cases, the operating system on the iBooks (OS X) already has the necessary drivers and software to use home printers and scanners. Students should be able to plug in the devices to the USB ports on the iBooks, and have the software self-configure for use. This should make the iBooks more functional at home. Students will be “standard users” on the iBooks, which means they won’t be able to install specialized software for home printers and scanners. Sometimes, printer and scanner software also includes serialized software which is owned by family and not by the school. In the future, we may try to support these devices, but for the pilot year we don’t want to try to configure each iBook for unique devices at home. Additionally, some families may want to use simple devices like Lexar JumpDrives (small USB memory sticks) to transfer files at home between the iBook and other computers. This makes it very easy to move files for printing, or to scan images on a home computer and then
