World History
So last Friday the two wonderful SBTS (school based technology specialists) in my building delivered thirty Chromebooks to my classroom. We spent about 20 minutes logging in and then connecting to the two WiFi accounts that we have at school. I was surprised first by the number of kids who hadn't heard of them and then later by the number who said they liked them so much they were going to looking into buying their own. My favorite comment came from a young man who said he no longer had time to text in between going from webpage to webpage. Yes they are lightening fast.
So I promise to blog about using Chromebooks this year and will start with what I mentioned in class today which is the list of shortcuts that you can use on the laptops.
By the way if you are like some of my students and haven't heard about Chromebooks then you should know that they are a very cheap, but high quality laptop ($200-250 is where most fall for school needs). The ones we have are sturdy and from signing in to being on a webpage is less than ten seconds. There is some space for downloading, but not enough room to run programs that require java script.
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World History
Chromebook Shortcuts
So I promise to blog about using Chromebooks this year and will start with what I mentioned in class today which is the list of shortcuts that you can use on the laptops.
By the way if you are like some of my students and haven't heard about Chromebooks then you should know that they are a very cheap, but high quality laptop ($200-250 is where most fall for school needs). The ones we have are sturdy and from signing in to being on a webpage is less than ten seconds. There is some space for downloading, but not enough room to run programs that require java script.
- 30 Ways To Use Chromebooks In The Classroom
Thanks to Stacy Delaney, our school based technology specialist for finding this document titled "30 Ways to Use Chromebooks in the Classroom." Ours continue to be the best thing for my students. When you add in that they now sit in pods of four and help...
- Internet Access For All Students?!
Each year I teach two AP classes, 2 standard ones and one online. So of my roughly 150 students, about 5-6 start the year without a laptop and all are in my two standard classes. What is different this year is that all but one has some Internet...
- Chromebooks As An Inexpensive Alternative For Schools
It is interesting to me that schools are willing to pay a great deal of money for tablets when laptops can do more. The problem, of course, is that many see laptops as being even more expensive. A number of teachers in my county would love...
- Screencasts For Chrome/chromebooks
I am sitting here enjoying the Olympics (long track is my favorite) and figuring out new things for the classroom/grading student assignments. One thing that has been missing from Chromebooks has been a way to make screencasts. Enter Screencastify!...
- Chromebooks And Our Changing Schools
Okay, so you may have noticed that I rarely advocate for something that costs money on this site (other than perhaps these world war simulations and a few free books I get from time to time), but Google is onto something with Chromebooks. They aren't...