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Buying Netbooks for Students - Where to Begin? | School Technology Solutions - 2 views

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  • There are a few tricks to optimize your netbook to meet the needs of students. Regarding the track pad on the netbooks, we disabled the tap feature that allows students to tap their track pad rather than clicking the button. We found that tapping the track pad was very confusing to elementary school students so we disabled it. We also slowed down the speed of the pointer and the double-click speed. We made changes to the Internet Explorer so that it had minimal menus as screen real estate is such a premium on a netbook you do not need to waste it on things like a Google bar or tabs. As a bonus, the new Internet Explorer does have a full screen option (F11) which allows students to see a lot more of a website by going to full screen mode. It also includes a zoom feature, so if students need to they can zoom out to see the entire web page. Mind you, on a netbook screen, the text will now appear very tiny. Another way to increase screen capacity on the small netbooks is to set the task-bar at the bottom to auto hide.
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Fotografix: The best photo editing software for the Eee « My Asus Eee PC - 0 views

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  • Tami Brass on 02 Jul 09
     
    This lightweight image editor takes two seconds to download, and an even shorter time to start up. No pesky splash screens! It even runs as a portable app. Now it goes to say that it's definitely not going to be as powerful as Photoshop or even GiMP. Well, we're working on a small screen, what else do you need? But if you need quick and easy photo editing on the fly, Fotografix would work perfectly.
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Learning in Hand Blog by Tony Vincent - 0 views

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  • Tami Brass on 02 Jul 09
     
    Great comparison of netbook to iPod Touch for classroom use.
  • Tami Brass on 02 Jul 09
     
    If I were given the choice in what kind of devices to get for my classroom, it would be an easy one. Since I'd want my students to blog, contribute to a wiki, create podcasts, and edit video, my choice would have to be netbooks. But, I'd want netbooks with plenty of memory and a larger screen. The current netbooks that are priced similarly to the iPod touch are underpowered and their 7 inch screen makes them annoying to use.
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State of the Art - Buying the Best Netbooks for the Least-Bad Compromises - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • A netbook is a laptop with a shrunken screen, an undersize keyboard and a processor that’s so slow, you’d have laughed at it in 2007. The netbooks’ crucial attractions are tiny dimensions, light weight and low cost, usually $350 to $500. Otherwise, they’re all about compromises.
  • In general, these four have identical specs: Windows XP ;1 gigabyte of memory; 1.6-gigahertz Intel Atom processor; 160-gigabyte hard drive; Wi-Fi wireless; 3 U.S.B. jacks; a webcam above the screen; video output and Ethernet jacks; and a memory-card slot.
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Scratch 1.4 Release Notes - Scratch Wiki - 0 views

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  • Tami Brass on 03 Jul 09
     
    This version should work on netbooks
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    We are happy to announce the release of Scratch 1.4. With this new version, you can ask users to input text from the keyboard (using the new "ask" and "answer" blocks), take photos directly from built-in or USB webcams, and control robotics with LEGO® WeDoTM. This version has a more flexible user interface, so that it can work on smaller screens, such as on netbook computers.
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Netbooks and touch screens: A good marriage? | The Digital Home - CNET News - 0 views

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  • Advantages
  • it's more intuitive. Users can simply drag their fingers around the display, making tasks simpler.
  • They are designed to give you access to e-mail, the Web, and some basic productivity elements to tag along while you're on-the-go. A touch screen might fit well with that aim.
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  • Disadvantages
  • Microsoft is offering touch technology only in Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editors. Windows 7 Starter edition--the version of the software Microsoft is pushing on Netbook makers--won't have touch technology included.
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  • Tami Brass on 08 Jul 09
     
    Definitely engaging, although a little gross
  • Tami Brass on 08 Jul 09
     
    Definitely engaging, although a little gross Awesome with touch screen!
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The Definitive Guide to Making the Most of Your Netbook - NetBooks - Lifehacker - 3 views

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  • The full-screen shortcuts for a few common applications are: Firefox/IE/Opera/Chrome - F11 (press again to return to normal view) and Microsoft Office - ALT+V+U (press ESC to return to normal view).
  • Microsoft Office: Ctrl+F1 minimizes the ribbon, which reappears when you mouse-over or press the alt key.
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Education Week's Digital Directions: Netbook-Laptop Debate - 4 views

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  • At about half the price of laptop computers—most are in the $300 to $400 range—netbooks may be cost-effective, but the savings can be lost in their scaled-down features and limited computing power.
  • Netbooks are defined as laptop computers that are smaller than 10 inches across, have slower and less powerful processors, and limited memory, making them useful for little more than accessing the Internet. They have smaller screens and keyboards, and are not equipped with CD or DVD drives and other features included in most laptops or desktop computers.
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      Tami Brass on 24 Jan 10
       
      I don't agree with the statement about netbooks not having the power for PPT or spreadsheets. We bumped ours up to 2GB RAM and have had good experiences w/both apps, provided we don't have more than 2-3 apps running simultaneously. This performance is similar to our lab machines.
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  • To be used successfully in the classroom, however, Wilson and others say that netbooks must be given the same kind of consideration as other technologies. Technical support, training for teachers and students, network capability, and curriculum are all still necessary investments whether using laptops, netbooks, or smaller, hand-held devices such as cellphones.
  • “With the onset of the netbook and the price-point difference [over laptops] and the movement in open-source courseware and cloud computing, ... they’ve made the distribution of netbooks a very exciting way to solve the problem at a cost less than laptops.”
  • The state is not discouraging districts from buying netbooks, Mao says, but he is advising school leaders to consider all of what they are getting, or not getting, for their money.
  • I guarantee that netbooks are completely sufficient for most internet applications, word-processing, and 99% of the spreadsheet tasks I do on a daily basis at my job! Yes, storage capacity is less in a netbook than in the average laptop, and laptops have optical drives where netbooks don't, and laptops have more powerful processors.
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