Posted in conferences, tablet_pcs on Sep 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Mark Whittard (Toshiba Information Systems) opened up Expanding Horizons on the last morning.
It’s hard for a hardware manufacturer to have something meaningful to say about education; even Apple struggle with that. And Mark Whittard mentioned as much when he began his keynote.
We got a potted history of Toshiba and their history (130 years!) and [...]
Posted in software, tablet_pcs, tools and gadgets on Mar 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
I realised this week that I hadn’t talked much here about one of the most significant technology changes we’ve made for students this year, that is moving to the tablet pc format for the notebook computers at our school.
A group of teachers, including me, trialled tablet pcs over the last year and have found them [...]
Posted in software, tablet_pcs, teaching strategies, tools and gadgets on Jan 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
An interesting non-edublog post from a high school maths teacher talking about technology, productivity and what software schools should be supporting teachers with. There are a lot of comments and suggestions at the end of the post too. The post describes the multi-pronged problem as:
I have found it increasingly annoying to hear from on high [...]
Posted in tablet_pcs, tools and gadgets on Dec 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Funny how you can be using a tool in the classroom, which was startling and new and fresh a couple of years ago, but then over time just becomes somehow normal and unremarkable. I suppose that’s what good tools do; become part of good practice. So I was in some meetings this week planning [...]
Posted in tablet_pcs on Nov 5th, 2006 No Comments »
I spent the day on Friday at an all-day professional development program, looking at the possibilities for tablet pcs in k-12 schools.
It was good to be re-inspired again about the potential of this technology as I watched classes using programs like Art Rage and OneNote as part of their normal school work. After almost a [...]
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