The Guardian has an article today discussing the rapid adoption of eeePCs in schools, apparently with Ministerial support.
I’m still impatiently waiting for my 6 to arrive, they won’t be ordered until the school’s trial of Wi-Fi is underway and as with all things in school that is taking longer than expected 🙁
Jonesieboy’s trials have had me waiting even more eagerly.
eeePCs come pre-installed with the wonderful Firefox browser. The 7-inch screen means that screen real-estate is at a premium so I have listed below some Firefox add-ons that I recommend. Get rid of those pesky adverts: Adblock Plus – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 Adblock Updater – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1136 Shrink the menus: Compact Menus 2 – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4550 Hide all the…
My Promethean Activboard is great, I need a new projector, but I’m a big fan of the boards and the software. So I’m quite excited that there is some new software incoming. I’m really pleased that I’ve been offered an early download of the software. Canny marketing work by Promethean offering the software to bloggers…
I’m doing a quick presentation at Teach Meet North West tomorrow night in Manchester. If you haven’t been to a Teachmeet before it’s an ‘unconference’ where enthusaistic teachers get together to share ideas, usually with an E-Learning theme. I’m doing a 2 minute nano-presentation on Google Forms, based on my interview / blog post from…
This was originally written as a think piece for the DfE for the http://schoolstech.org.uk/ site, think pieces weren’t used in the end so here it is! Our young learners inhabit a world where communication and access to knowledge is being transformed by mobile devices. A world in which we as adults would be lost and frustrated…
Following yesterday’s use of Twitter in the classroom, I was walking to Period 5 (same class as yesterday) after lunch, when inspiration struck. I remembered this post from @tombarrett . Go and read it. Go on! I threw my lesson plan out of the window and did exactly what Tom did, here are the replies: (click through for…
Well you can’t have missed the fact that Google has finally unleashed Google Wave to 100,000 lucky testers, and with it a tsunami of hype. I was lucky enough to be one of the 100,000 first wave. Enough of the puns, if you want a bytesize explanation of what Wave is then this video is…
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