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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
I'm spending much of my summer looking for resources and po… Continue
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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Bill, Thanks for sharing. How bittersweet life can be. Fred
About 10 years ago, several faculty members at my school were sitting at lunch talking about the fast-approaching Parents' Weekend. "I don't know how parents do it," one teacher commented. "I know I could never have given up one moment with my kid...
This group is for people who are evaluating their databases and a place for communicate about the issues and challenges of managing information within an independent school.
Welcome to the Tablet Computing group. Please join in the discussions below, start a new topic, or post a video that relates to tablets.
Michael Horn discusses the history of the Florida Virtual School with David Colon, Academic Dean at Collegiate School.
We've found time by giving four faculty meetings a year to working on committees--the personalized PD time. And because the teachers are charged up about getting their pet projects done they find time to meet after school on their own. I find it h...
The K12Online Conference 2009 is about to begin! So far this year we have enjoyed 3 LAN parties leading up to the main conference. The LAN parties featured past presenters, their presentations, and chat room hullabaloo. While this was all connect...
Best of luck with your strategic planning. It sounds like you have a well-thought out process planned. Here are a couple of Disrupting Class resources we found useful to share with our faculty:
http://educationnext.org/how-do-we-transform-our-sc...
That's great, Jamie!! Thanks for sharing!
Michael Horn and David Colon discuss the idea of monolithic instruction.
This ISEnet group is for discussing issues and resources specific to lower school.
I have used Fliggo, which can be private or public.
My school, Collegiate School in Richmond Va, has been working with Michael Horn, one of the junior authors on Disrupting Class to help change our school plan from a deliberative strategy to an emergent strategy.
As part of our work, David Colon, ...
I've used Vimeo, which allows videos to be share via password (or left open if you prefer).
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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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