Committee work: Students contribute their unique points of view and technology expertise. Prepare students for committee work by practicing brainstorming and using consensus language.Internet safety and AUPs: Include students in the process of reviewing school acceptable use policies (AUPs) so the participating students will be better able to articulate the new rules to their peers.Security: Offer trained students a gradually-increasing access level between a normal student and a teacher. Avoid putting even trained students in an awkward position by allowing unnecessary access.Student support for teachers: Students can work one-on-one with teachers to help integrate technology into planned lessons, can help provide floating classroom support, or even present the lesson themselves.
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Put students to work: tips for a successful laptop program - 0 views
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Integrate students with professional tech support: Some IT staff will not want to deal with students. In these cases, student tech support should focus on support for teachers using classroom technology.
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Create student tech support teams:
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Welcome to Kidz Chores, Inc. - 0 views
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Could be a cool tool to teach kids about managing money... Would like to try with my kids.
55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education - Datamation.com - 0 views
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Stellarium Downloaded more than 7 million times, Stellarium is one of the most popular open-source education apps available. With this app, you can input coordinates for any point on earth and view the night skies for any particular point in time. It's so accurate, it's even used to power many planetariums. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
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Celestia Like Stellarium, Celestia lets you view the night skies from earth, but it also lets you fly through 3D space to any place in the known universe. When possible, it uses actual photographs of planets, asteroids, and other objects, so that you can see what they really look like. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
Stu's Double Jeopardy! - 0 views
Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Things Teachers Should Know Before 1:1 - 2 views
YouTube - K12 Netbooks - 0 views
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Good video to explain various formats available for netbooks
45 Websites For Students To Create Original Artwork Online | art, creativity, student a... - 0 views
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The sites are labeled by grade level to help guide you to those that best suit your students.
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Many of these would ROCK on a netbook
NetBookLessons.com - 0 views
Fotografix: The best photo editing software for the Eee « My Asus Eee PC - 0 views
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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.
Interactive Poetry Tools and Lesson Plans - 0 views
K-2 Student Interactives - UEN - 0 views
3-6 Student Interactives - UEN - 0 views
The Renaissance Connection, from the Allentown Art Museum - 0 views
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Welcome to The Renaissance Connection, the Allentown Art Museum's interactive educational web site. With the simple click of a mouse button, travel 500 years into the past to discover many Renaissance innovations revealed through the Allentown Art Museum's Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art.
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Would be great on a netbook as a resource for a Renaissance unit. Kids will need headphones or you'll lose it in 10 minutes! Very engaging.
Lifehacker - PortableApps.com Suite 1.5 Improves Menu Looks, Customization - Thumb drive - 0 views
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Windows only: The PortableApps.com Suite, a full-featured app package that runs from a USB drive, has upgraded with a crisper-looking and more customizable menu, the latest versions of a ton of great freeware, and more.
20 Ways To Increase Laptop's Battery Life - 0 views
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1. Ship shape with a defrag
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2. Kill the resource gobblers
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3. Pause the scheduled tasks
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