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St. Paul Academy and Summit School Middle School
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Technology Coordinator/Teacher
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Teaching with Netbooks - Resources

From recent listserve and Twitter discussions, it sounds like many of us are going to be using some sort of netbooks this year. My school did a pilot of the Intel Classmate Convertible this spring which has lead us to adopt them as our primary machine for our middle school 1-1. (Details of the pilot can be found on my blog.)

I'm spending much of my summer looking for resources and po… Continue

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 6:18pm — 3 Comments

Tami Brass

Laptop Survey Results In

I've posted the results of the laptop survey on my blog.
Thanks to all who participated. I hope you'll find the information as useful as I have.

Posted on March 5, 2008 at 3:50pm —

Tami Brass

Laptop Survey Results In

I've posted the results of the laptop survey on my blog.
Thanks to all who participated. I hope you'll find the information as useful as I have.

Posted on March 5, 2008 at 3:50pm —

Tami Brass

Calling all schools using portable computing (1-1, carts, etc.)

My school, St. Paul Academy and Summit School,
has had a 1-1 laptop implementation since 2001. This year, SPA’s
technology committee is evaluating it’s laptop program implementation.
We’re surveying parents, students, and faculty to find out what works,
what needs fixing, and what’s missing.

Our current technology implementation in a nutshell:



  • We are a k12 independent school with a k-5 campus and a 6-12 campus. T


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Posted on January 7, 2008 at 3:38pm —

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At 12:49pm on October 6, 2009, Peggy Bloomfield said…
Tami

Help! I thought I was sold on the Intel Classmate PC tablet for my computer lab. We are a small (100) student K-5 school with limited resources. I thought using the tablet would solve it all. Now I am beginning to wonder if we could accomplish the same things with much cheaper netbooks. What are you finding as far as keeping the styli or replacing them? Do you find have the ability to write on the screen is very helpful for your students? We are not able to be a truly 1:1 school at this point so the laptops (tablets or netbooks) would have to live at school with access granted during technology lesson or with teacher permission during the school day. Any and all information you can provide would be extremely helpful. I need to make a decision quickly because I am now working with donated PCs of the 1980 vintage which are running Windows 98 and are not networked, reliable or stable.
At 2:32pm on February 17, 2009, Sister Elizabeth said…
Hi,

I just read your review of the Classmate. I'm anxiously awaiting my demo model. You might want to give my CDW rep a call. They (CDW) have worked out some extra good pricing on the Classmates with the manufacturer. He quoted me $500 for WinWP Pro and 2 gigs of RAM and a few other odds and ends. If you want to talk to him he is Jeff Rossi at jeffros@cdw.com. I'm all for getting more for less when we can.

Good success.

Sister Elizabeth
At 3:59pm on October 30, 2008, Vandenheede said…
You have a deal! I was getting pretty worried when I had the same issue days prior to launching the onenote shares....
At 8:57pm on July 24, 2008, Sarah Hanawald said…
I think I got it. I traced, exported it as a pdf, then inserted the file back in one note. Now I can draw on top of it. I have a tablet, but my students are still on laptops and I'm trying to find ways that the tablet functionality is helping me teach better even though I'm not much of a "presenter" type as a teacher. Thanks for all your great resources.
At 8:47pm on July 23, 2008, Sarah Hanawald said…
I'd love to read your post! I've traced successfully in Windows Journal, but then if I import it into One Note, it gets turned around. I want to make the first tracing fixed, so that kids can color, label, draw in other lines (I'm thinking of doing something with the Great Lakes), then erase it all and do it again.
At 9:59pm on July 22, 2008, Sarah Hanawald said…
Hi Tammi,
I tried to leave a comment on your blog, but the spam eliminator doesn't like me (or maybe it doesn't like Flock). Anyway, I'm really enjoying your posts about tablet software and uses. I'd like to talk with you sometime about how to trace maps and then use them in onenote.
Sarah
At 11:09am on July 22, 2008, Colin Bridgewater said…
Sounds great. I've contacted our health teacher and the woman who was coordinator last year to see if they have anything they'd like to add (although I'm not sure they'll be checking their school email over the summer). I'll give it some thought and see if I can get back to you with some suggestions based on some of what we've done in advisories over the years.
At 7:23am on July 22, 2008, Colin Bridgewater said…
Hi Tami,
Would you be willing to share the curriculum you have planned for your Wellnology class? I'd be interested to see if there are aspects of it we can include in our advisories and/or health classes here in London.
At 9:43pm on April 28, 2008, Sarah Hanawald said…
Hey Tami!
I'm hoping to hear more about the CCDS tablet sessions. I went there years ago for the Launching a Laptop program. I know Joe Hoffmeister is retired now, and I'm wondering if some of the other folks are still there.
Sarah
At 10:14pm on January 15, 2008, Alex Inman said…
Hi Tami. Sorry it took me so long to respond to your survey. Good luck with your planning!
 
 

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