L4L Round 2
When its quiet, I really enjoy my reading, especially my Google RSS reader. Every time I get an hour to read I find at least a handful of thought provoking statements. Today its Clay Shirky, he’s a regular contributor. A …
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1-2-1 – Its Rarely that Simple.
We have started our planning for Sept 10 deployment , sounds rather military and in many ways it is. Hardware infrastructure and capacity, in-house or managed, wireless, image, accountability of parents / students (this includes documentation, AUPs and SLAs) the …
An Imagination Machine – What you can do with a laptop
Another fantastic re-direct from my RSS reader. My learning really is global. I find it amazing that I can watch the keynote speakers from a conference in New Zealand. Today I watched Dr Gary Stager presentation, ‘10 things you can do with a …
For My Good Friend Gideon
Gideon does not know it yet, but this post is for him. His desktop is impressively muddled. Bring forward the offical release of Fences, a very simple desktop icon organizer. Fences is a freeware application, Windows only. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSTnuRSKymw]
Netbooks Update
A brief summary. One of the difficulties in over seeing the netbook project is that I do not teach a subject that requires netbooks. So I asked our e-resources manager to visit a range of Yr 10 lesson and see the …
Fujitsu? Possibly….
As we continue to pursue bids from vendors for a new blade server infrastructure, we invite Fujitsu’s Edgar Rich (Enterprise Solutions) to Hamble College. In turn Edgar encouraged we take a leap of faith in the kit and furthermore he was very receptive …
Netbook Update
With a delayed delivery (23 days), our netbook (L4L) project took a rather significant ‘respectability’ hit – however the team have delivered a strong response in terms of service and product. With the units delivered late our team worked morning and …
Battery Life
Planning for netbooks (Laptops4Learning) we are always on the look out to make this personal learning tools more efficient. The unit, the OS and battery life are the foundations for all decisions. Introducing a simple visual battery display that is …