FCS Tech

2 yr subscription makes this a no brainer for FCS

Good example of a teacher using a blog to share content with her students and her students to share with each other (and the world)

Coming in behind Internet, entertainment, games, business, social networking, email, education and reading uses, the only thing users turn to their iPad for less than app use, said CIRP, is shopping

via gary price

"Most of us went through school and, by and large, succeeded. When we had education done to us, we experienced what I call the "just in case model" of education. We learned things just in case they might be useful. Just in case they might be on the test. Just in case we might look for a job in that area. Just in case you might study physics later on. And a key reason that education developed this model was that the predominant mode of teaching, and hence learning, relied on the predominant technology of the day: paper. . . .

Nice way of getting customized google products embedded into the blogs

Seems like we are on point?!

even the u.s. army hates powerpoint

Some research on laptop reliability. Not surprisingly netbooks have a higher failure rate, but on a two year replacement cycle, not too bad. 5% failure in first year. 20% after 3 years.