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Classroom minis or Computer lab??

Started this discussion. Last reply by Andrew Pass Jan 9, 2010. 24 Replies

 

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Andrew Pass replied to Barbara McLaughlin's discussion 'Classroom minis or Computer lab??'
I have an associate who argues that schools that have computer labs are bound to fail, as are schools that have technology plans. It's almost like having a pencil lab or a pencil plan. In the Twenty First Century teachers must learn to…
Jan 9, 2010
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Richard Kurtzer replied to Barbara McLaughlin's discussion 'Classroom minis or Computer lab??'
Jack, You're right about the computer lab reaching the end of it's life. The bigger netbooks that are out there now have plenty of power for K-12 use and I'm seeing more and more of my customers using them in conjunction with a…
Jan 8, 2010
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Jason Epp replied to Barbara McLaughlin's discussion 'Classroom minis or Computer lab??'
I love hearing about primary classes using technology. I also teach grade two and am always looking for new sites to use with my class. I often find the sites that are out there are way to hard or way to preschoolish for my kids. Do you have any…
Jan 8, 2010
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Sue Tantalus replied to Barbara McLaughlin's discussion 'Classroom minis or Computer lab??'
Jim We do use teacher control and it does just what we want. I can see the kids, control the kids, show my desktop, launch applications, show one of the students to the rest of the class, etc. It does require a decent network, but it does what we…
Jan 5, 2010
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Jim D replied to Barbara McLaughlin's discussion 'Classroom minis or Computer lab??'
Sue...do you use the classroom management software? I think it doesn't have quite all of the features that SmartSync has, but it comes free and it works well for us. How about the cloning software? Our tech's like the fact that it allows…
Jan 5, 2010
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Dave Peterson replied to Barbara McLaughlin's discussion 'Classroom minis or Computer lab??'
We agree totally regarding open source, nComputing, and Fiddlehead. The FH guy is Dave Peterson and the company is easy to work with.
Jan 5, 2010
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Sue Tantalus replied to Barbara McLaughlin's discussion 'Classroom minis or Computer lab??'
I totally agree regarding open source applications. The problem we have down here is that our school districts are required to teach to certain specific TITLES of software. For instance, our school district MUST use Successmaker, and the next…
Jan 5, 2010
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Jack Hutchinson replied to Barbara McLaughlin's discussion 'Classroom minis or Computer lab??'
The computer lab per se is now reaching the end of its life. The netbook campus is the way of the future. I just picked up an ACER at Walmart for $298. A local school in the DFW area got Gateway to bring the price down to 200 per netbook fully…
Aug 7, 2009

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Taught Middle School English, Math, Computers for 12 years.
Now have the greatest job in the world trying to facilitate the ubiquitous use of simple technology K-8.

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At 10:07am on December 13, 2009, suehellmansuehellman said…
Hi Barbara --

It's great to find more Canucks in here in CR 2.0. You might want to join a group called "Canadians Mashup". If you join, please use the Welcome forum at http://www.classroom20.com/group/canadianmashup/forum/topics/welcome-to-canadian-mashup to introduce yourself, and then add me as a Colleague.

-Sue in Surrey, BC
At 5:32pm on January 1, 2009, Mark CruthersMark Cruthers said…
Hi Barbara,

With your work as an Education Technology ConsultantI recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
At 12:16pm on December 26, 2008, marcotutsmarcotuts said…
Hi,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com
At 8:06pm on September 14, 2008, Govinda Prasad PanthyGovinda Prasad Panthy said…
hello, school teacher here from NEpal. can we become friends?
At 12:42am on July 6, 2008, Hans FeldmeierHans Feldmeier said…
Hello Barbara, my greetings from Germany! My focus is on Web 2.0 apps in the classroom. As to Classroom 2.0: I have created the biggest group about digital teaching methods called DigiSkills with 341 members now - would love if you decide to join.
Hans
 
 
 

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