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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
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Posted on July 2, 2009 at 6:18pm — 3 Comments
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.
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 —
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.
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 —
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.
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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.
Posted on January 7, 2008 at 3:38pm —
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Hi Sister Elizabeth -
There is a fair amount of info on our website about our 9-yr-old 1:1 laptop program (www.urbanschool.org/laptops). Also our Tech Director Howard Levin has some information on his site (www.howardlevin.com). Sarah is right --...
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I've attached the rationale letter we send out every year to the families of students entering our laptop program.
I wrote a short book about 1:1 programs about 7 years ago. A lot of the information is dated but I think the material related to wh...
Hi Sister Elizabeth,
I recently updated my rationale statement for our 1:1 program. While this is much longer than a mission statement, it may be of interest... http://www.battlegroundacademy.org/podium/default.aspx?t=105664 It draws from a few so...
We're planning to offer such a class next year to our 7th-8th graders and are looking into VE software alternatives. We are PC based.
Does anyone have user based comments on Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, or Adobe Elements? Or any other software yo...
I added it again because the video wasn't showing up for everyone--this is a different source, Viddler.
Jim,
Great surveys! Of the two the MS survey seems a little stronger. What I feel is missing from the HS survey is questions that capture the ubiquitous fluid use of computers that develops over time in 1:1 schools. For instance, I see a lot of s...
A few years ago I created a graphic to represent the "essential objectives" of a MS laptop program. You can see it at
http://www.k12converge.com/?p=201
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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.
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
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
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.
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
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