[CALIBK12] Flash drives

[Spielman, Kathy]

Our PTA sold them for $6.00 years ago. Then the kids started bringing in very inappropriate stuff on the flash drives. One was a virus that shut down every computer in one of our high schools. Now, our tech dept created a drive kids save to and is accessible from school and home with an ftp address. No problems since then. Kids are not allowed any device or e-mail. Of course, some teachers still let them sneak it in.
 
 
Kathy Spielman
Library Media Technician
Yorba Linda Middle School
4777 Casa Loma Ave.
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
kspielman at pylusd.org
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu]On Behalf Of Virginia Hamilton
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:18 PM
To: Kelly Benning; California K-12 Librarians Discussion; Headley Vicki
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Flash drives



We constantly had students who couldn't save their work on the library computers--disk drives were disabled, e-mail projects didn't always open, etc.  Some were even trying to use floppies!
 
So recently we ordered 2 packs (5 flash drives each) to try of HP USB Flash drives, 1 GB from Amazon.com.  We are selling them to the students at our cost of $7.00 each.  We checked with our head tech guru and he thought 1 GB would be good to start with.  And the students are thrilled.  (We also checked to make sure the student store wasn't selling them.)
 
Virginia Hamilton, Librarian
Union Mine High School
El Dorado, CA

--- On Fri, 5/1/09, Headley Vicki <headley_vicki at cupertino.k12.ca.us> wrote:


From: Headley Vicki <headley_vicki at cupertino.k12.ca.us>
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Flash drives
To: "Kelly Benning" <kbenning at lvusd.org>, "California K-12 Librarians Discussion" <calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu>
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 12:37 PM


I hate to rain on anybody's parade, but retail sales require a  license and

resale number.  You can ask for a donation, unless you have that in place.

Good luck

Vicki



On 5/1/09 9:17 AM, "Kelly Benning" <kbenning at lvusd.org> wrote:



> I would like to order about 100 flash drives to sell to students. Have

> any of you purchased flash drives in bulk? Any suggestions of how I can

> get a good deal on reliable flash drives at a reasonable price? (I tried

> Pexagon, but they were $11.99 each - WAY too much.) I'd like to buy

them

> for $5-$7 and sell them for $10.

> Have a great Friday!



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