With all the shiny devices out there, most people do not think to use a small arsenal of tech tools. We want the biggest, fastest tools, without sometimes thinking of the learning that can take place. Take for instance a recent article and infographic that I posted here. Infographics can provide so many teaching moments
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I always thought the Gimp a good photo editing software. Of course it gets even better if you can use your Android tablet as a sketch pad to your computer. Think how powerful this could be in an art class or even just in a regular classroom?
In our district we continue to plan for the inevitable…BYOD. Bring your own device. Allowing students and staff to bring in their laptops, tablets, netbooks, and phones and using school system connectivity. To plan for it, we completed a massive upgrade of our wireless LANs at each school, adding about 40-50 N WAPs to each
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So this laptop was weeks (8+) in the making, but I finally get to type my first blog update on it. The Lenovo x1 Carbon ultrabook. i7 Processor. 8gb of yummy RAM. Chicklet keyboard. Very, very nice! So I want to use it for my primary machine, obviously, but also for testing ROMs, like Android
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And no tears in my school district. No tears because the real work starts now. We use these precious weeks to clean up the mess our teachers and students left behind. Well, that, and get ready for the next year. Busy time–we are getting geared up for our school system’s Race to the Top project–complete
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