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Apple Digital Campus
The Apple MacBooks at Oklahoma Christian provide several unique technological options that enhance the university's mobile learning goals and allow it to better meet the educational needs of the students.
Ease of Use
Apple's legendary ease of use is important in an educational setting. Users spend less time tweaking and frustrated and more time being productive.
Compatibility
The MacBooks can run Microsoft's Office suite on either platform: Office 2010 under Windows 7 and Office 2011 on the Macintosh side. The two versions of Office produce cross-platform files, so that a student using one operating system can send a file to another student or faculty member and know that the files will be usable. Users have access to file-storage located on the OC network as well as access to the university's many printers and wireless connectivity.
Multiple Operating Systems
The MacBooks, with their Intel processors are capable of running multiple operating systems under Apple's Boot Camp software. The MacBooks contain BootPicker, a software product that lets the user choose to boot up in either Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or Windows 7. The laptops also come with Parallels Desktop installed, which allows users to run Windows 7 _within_ the Mac operating system, so users can run Windows applications alongside Macintosh applications for the best of both worlds.
iLife Software
The MacBook laptops include Apple's iLife software suite. These applications allow students to create various media. With iWeb, users can create classy webpages for courses or personal use. iMovie is an easy way to create and work with digital video. iPhoto allows the collection and editing of thousands of digital photos. GarageBand lets the user easily create music with different instruments and sound effects. iDVD allows students to burn DVDs from their laptop. The built-in iSight cameras allow for online collaboration with faculty or other students from anywhere with a network connection.
Technology Specifications
For the latest information on technology specifications please select either Undergraduate or Graduate level of study.
Faculty Facts
Andy Harbert, Professor of Computer Science, says he works at OC because, "it gives me an opportunity to work hard at work worth doing." His favorite memories at OC "come from hearing the stories of our graduates' successes."
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