Laptops 4 Learning (1-2-1 initiative)
Independent Research company Forrester made a bold statement in light of the 80+ tablets appearing at CES this week…. e-reader sales to increase by 50% in 2011 to 15.5 million devices while tablet computer sales jump 130% from 10.3 million …
Over at Sharepoint in Education Mike Herrity has a diversion, an belief we both share, discuss and are currently pursuing. For the past two years, Mike and I have been charting our respected school progress towards 1-2-1 computing. There is …
Back in July, just as the IPad sales were impressing the stockmarket, I speculated that tablet devices might find their way into education by 2015 replacing netbooks as the preferred learning device. Cost and durability the most obvious stalling concerns. …
Within 13 months we have made netbooks available to students in Years 9, 10 and 11 at Hamble College. The percentage uptake this year has not yet hit 50%, a little disappointing, but we have not received 100% of answers. …
I orginally drafted this post back in March when we were finalising our procurement. It was important that we got all our information confirmed before I posted it, I then duly forgot it was in DRAFT. (Incidentally thats the not …
This evening I connected my Windows Skydrive to a mapped location on my home PC. With yet another excellent ‘HOW TO’ resource from the Super Site for Windows it was simple. The writer behind this fantastic all things Microsoft site is …
Hamble College started tracking netbook developments in 2008 following the launch of the Asus EEEPC the previous year. After a small scale pilot with 20 Toshiba NB100s in 2009 and a very reassuring visits to Arnewood School and Perins School …
The English Department are our most proficient users of the student netbooks. I am not embarrassed to say that the students predominantly use their netbooks as for Word processing. More importantly, students are not wasting 5 minutes top and tail …
