1-1 Programs – What about home use?
One of the main benefits of 1-1 computing is to provide students with the same access to the resources outside of school that they have in school. This access seems to be twofold – both for schoolwork (assigned projects and homework) and for independent constructive use (research, learning applications independently, outside projects, etc). For middle [...]
Teaching with Netbooks
With a new school year around the corner and my school‘s implementation of two grades of Intel Classmate Convertibles (Nobis from Equus), I’m spending much of my “free time” this summer looking for resources to help make the implementation successful. If you’ve read my other blog posts, you probably know that I’ve been working with [...]
Adjusting to a smaller screen
This summer, many of our teachers are having their Toshiba R10s swapped out for Toshiba M700s. This fall, we’re downsizing our student computers – Toshiba A8s just a couple of years ago to mostly Intel Classmate Convertibles (with one grade of Toshiba M700s remaining from a pilot last year). In doing so, users will get [...]
Electronic Hand-in Revisited
After my initial freakout Wednesday, I received a ton of helpful and informative responses. I’ll do my best to summarize below. First, at least five folks from different schools replied back that we can do dropboxes on a Windows network. I received a Twitpic from Karl Fisch as a comment to my post and video [...]
Help! Goodbye to drop folders?
For the past three years I’ve been at SPA, we’ve had a Novell network for longer than I’ve been at my school. Since I started, we’ve been giving teachers folders on the network in which they have Copy, Drop, Shared, and Portfolio folders for their students. Teachers have full read/write access to all of these. [...]
