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- 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...
- Chromebook Shortcuts
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...
- 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!...
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Chromebooks for Your School
Chromebooks 101: What's All the Fuss About? from jonathanwylie
While I have been unsuccessful in convincing my school district (mostly since Pearson cannot yet run their end of the year state exams in the cloud - amazing for a company as big as they are) to let me buy Chromebooks, for our students, 22% of US school districts are now using them. I am practicing what I preach as my wife and I have bought two of them for our kids and they love them for their school work and everything else they do (except for games that require Java downloads). The best ones are only $250 which kills the price of the iPad and other laptops and the go from completely off to fully functional in 10 seconds. Since they are cloud based they also keep updating themselves.
If you or your school district is thinking of purchasing them, the slideshow above is very balanced on the pros and cons (pro = cheap to purchase if your students use the cloud and your school district approves the use of Chrome apps; con = no Java and no Microsoft Word).
Here and here are two great pages on using Chromebooks and the slideshow above is a perfect place to start with lots of apps.
If you or your school district is thinking of purchasing them, the slideshow above is very balanced on the pros and cons (pro = cheap to purchase if your students use the cloud and your school district approves the use of Chrome apps; con = no Java and no Microsoft Word).
Here and here are two great pages on using Chromebooks and the slideshow above is a perfect place to start with lots of apps.
- 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...
- Chromebook Shortcuts
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...
- 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!...