Our district spent $140,000 on student devices this year. We could have bought 230 9.7″ screen iPads (estimate $600 for keyboard case and a few apps) but instead we bought 400 11.6″ screen netbooks ($350 for Acer Aspire One 722). … Continue reading
Have you ever seen a margin of error reported on a state test result or an error bar on a state test graph? Has anyone ever reported a p value, an R squared, a standard deviation, median, or any other … Continue reading
Google docs is a great way to great forms for doing classroom observations. However, the information in the form just goes to a spreadsheet which isn’t very useful for providing teacher feedback. By copying a template in Google Docs you … Continue reading
A fellow Moodler (Laurie Korte) asked for some talking points to convince her district to use Moodle as its primary collaboration tool. In my district (and around the web) I often get folks saying “We should use X instead of … Continue reading
We recently started exploring the use of Ubermix on school computers. Before I get into what Ubermix is I wanted to do a little thought experiment. What if I told you Ubermix sped up boot times from 7 minutes to … Continue reading