World History
- Chromebook Tutorials
We have two Chromebooks in my house, which my kids love. For those of you lucky enough to have them in your classroom, here are some video tutorials you can use to help you. 1. Chromebook: How to edit a photo 2. Chromebook: How to create...
- Macworld Writes About Our Ipad Pilot
Macworld just did a piece on the new iPad e-books which my students piloted for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. If you are interested in the "books," it is a lengthy piece that goes into great deal on benefits of the iPad e-book MacWorld is decidedly...
- Our Two Month Ipad E-textbook Pilot
Last November Houghton Mifflin Harcourt asked me to pilot their new iPad e-textbooks which we did for two months ending just this past Monday. The pilot was for Patterns of Interaction and I must admit the first day we had them there were some collective...
- Wwi Webquest, E-book, Qr Codes
Kim Belknap is taking my integrating technology in the classroom course (which I will be offering this summer to people who want to take it virtually - details will come out in early April). She just did a great webquest on World War I using her...
- 100 Chromebook Tips
Okay, so perhaps not all of you are jumping to get the Chromebook by Google, but I just got mine in the mail yesterday. If you are into "the cloud," it is a cheap ($500 for the version that gives you 100 mgs of free access a month and it obviously...
World History
Chromebook vs. iPad
Thanks to Houghton Mifflin Hartcourt (HMH), I have started the process of comparing the iPad to the Chromebook. HMH gave my frosh 35 iPads to use for two months as well as their iPad e-books. Certainly (and we have the US, WH and government ones all loaded up) the e-books on the iPads are superior to the Internet based ones. The kids love being able to move easily around the pages, blow up videos, toggle easily back and forth between items (four find swipe) and so on. I also like how they can instantly get on on the Internet as opposed to the 3-5 minute loading process it takes for our normal netbooks. I also have dramatically improved my skills on the iPad (as you can see from my expanding tips here).
But, and I know you will find this shocking, but my own kids do a lot of their homework using laptops (grades 3 and 2x5th) and are well versed in Google Drive. So needing more computers I bought the $250 Chomebook a week ago. It is 11.6 inches (1.5" larger than the iPad) and has a little storage, but is basically a way to get to the Internet. Certainly using the Internet textbook is not as rich an experience on a Chromebook, but you also have full functionality of Google Drive and are not married to the same device for the e-book. It also fires up in seconds and can run many programs at once (far better than the earlier versions). At 50% the price of the e-book, right now I have to err on the side of the Chromebook. If you agree I have a video of tips for it above.
But, and I know you will find this shocking, but my own kids do a lot of their homework using laptops (grades 3 and 2x5th) and are well versed in Google Drive. So needing more computers I bought the $250 Chomebook a week ago. It is 11.6 inches (1.5" larger than the iPad) and has a little storage, but is basically a way to get to the Internet. Certainly using the Internet textbook is not as rich an experience on a Chromebook, but you also have full functionality of Google Drive and are not married to the same device for the e-book. It also fires up in seconds and can run many programs at once (far better than the earlier versions). At 50% the price of the e-book, right now I have to err on the side of the Chromebook. If you agree I have a video of tips for it above.
- Chromebook Tutorials
We have two Chromebooks in my house, which my kids love. For those of you lucky enough to have them in your classroom, here are some video tutorials you can use to help you. 1. Chromebook: How to edit a photo 2. Chromebook: How to create...
- Macworld Writes About Our Ipad Pilot
Macworld just did a piece on the new iPad e-books which my students piloted for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. If you are interested in the "books," it is a lengthy piece that goes into great deal on benefits of the iPad e-book MacWorld is decidedly...
- Our Two Month Ipad E-textbook Pilot
Last November Houghton Mifflin Harcourt asked me to pilot their new iPad e-textbooks which we did for two months ending just this past Monday. The pilot was for Patterns of Interaction and I must admit the first day we had them there were some collective...
- Wwi Webquest, E-book, Qr Codes
Kim Belknap is taking my integrating technology in the classroom course (which I will be offering this summer to people who want to take it virtually - details will come out in early April). She just did a great webquest on World War I using her...
- 100 Chromebook Tips
Okay, so perhaps not all of you are jumping to get the Chromebook by Google, but I just got mine in the mail yesterday. If you are into "the cloud," it is a cheap ($500 for the version that gives you 100 mgs of free access a month and it obviously...