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Showing posts with label Laptops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laptops. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Maine Laptops and the Future
Essential Questions:1. What have we learned from the first 7 years of MLTI?
2. What might work even better in the future?
MLTI Laptop Information (2009 Deployment) at LIM Resources Wiki (Feel free to edit (update).
Discuss on LIM Online Community
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Laptops in the Classroom?
Why do some teachers/professors ban laptops, etc. from their classrooms? This wiki collects comments, responses, and reasoning on this issue.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 7, 2007
iBook Roll Out 2007
by George Crawford
This is the sixth year that the 7th and 8th grade students at the Jonesboro Elementary School have had their MLTI iBooks provided by the state. This past Monday we had our annual parent and student meeting on the iBooks. The purpose of this meeting is to "show off" the iBooks and what they can do to parents. We also talk to the parents and the students about the rules of the use of the iBooks and some of the possible pitfalls of not following the rules.
This year we had almost all of our 18 7th and 8th graders. I showed the parents and students the software on the iBooks including Google Earth, GarageBand, iMovie, and Microsoft Office that we have. I also showed them some of the 'freebies" that I added. These were open source programs that I learned about after attending the FOSSED conference this summer.
Stellarium, a planetarium software was added along with Celestia for astronomy. I also added Smell-o-Mints, an interactive periodic table software and also AbiWord for word processing. I also showed an iMovie done by one of last year's 8th graders that showed how his brother lost a canoe joust.
The getting of an iBook has become a "rite of passage" for our 7th graders and they look forward to this. It is not as much a novelty as they were 5 years ago but the 7th graders still feel that it is important.
We also are dealing with the issue of students taking home their iBooks this year. I am still waiting for our School Committee to pass my take home policy. The students are excited about the prospect of taking home their laptops and I am a bit nervous as the Technology Coordinator. Other schools through the ACTEM list have indicated that the laptops going home on the whole are successful.
Things to Think About:
How does your school "roll out" their MLTI laptops to students?
What are some of the benefits and pitfalls of the MLTI laptops?
How can my school minimize problems from the laptops?
What is my school's laptop take home policy if they have one?
What can the high school MLTI learn from the middle school program and how can the middle school project share ideas locally with the high school?
What are the benefits of one to one computing in schools and what are the pitfalls?
This is the sixth year that the 7th and 8th grade students at the Jonesboro Elementary School have had their MLTI iBooks provided by the state. This past Monday we had our annual parent and student meeting on the iBooks. The purpose of this meeting is to "show off" the iBooks and what they can do to parents. We also talk to the parents and the students about the rules of the use of the iBooks and some of the possible pitfalls of not following the rules.
This year we had almost all of our 18 7th and 8th graders. I showed the parents and students the software on the iBooks including Google Earth, GarageBand, iMovie, and Microsoft Office that we have. I also showed them some of the 'freebies" that I added. These were open source programs that I learned about after attending the FOSSED conference this summer.
Stellarium, a planetarium software was added along with Celestia for astronomy. I also added Smell-o-Mints, an interactive periodic table software and also AbiWord for word processing. I also showed an iMovie done by one of last year's 8th graders that showed how his brother lost a canoe joust.
The getting of an iBook has become a "rite of passage" for our 7th graders and they look forward to this. It is not as much a novelty as they were 5 years ago but the 7th graders still feel that it is important.
We also are dealing with the issue of students taking home their iBooks this year. I am still waiting for our School Committee to pass my take home policy. The students are excited about the prospect of taking home their laptops and I am a bit nervous as the Technology Coordinator. Other schools through the ACTEM list have indicated that the laptops going home on the whole are successful.
Things to Think About:
How does your school "roll out" their MLTI laptops to students?
What are some of the benefits and pitfalls of the MLTI laptops?
How can my school minimize problems from the laptops?
What is my school's laptop take home policy if they have one?
What can the high school MLTI learn from the middle school program and how can the middle school project share ideas locally with the high school?
What are the benefits of one to one computing in schools and what are the pitfalls?
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