Our campus has a new wireless laptop cart to use in our classrooms. I am currently sitting in the training to use the cart, minding my own business writing this post. The cart is equipped with 30 laptops, a dedicated laser printer, and extra batteries. The laptops are made by Dell and they will behave just like our wired labs.
I can think of half a dozen projects that I would like to see done with this cart. We will be limited to what is available on the laptops as far as software, but we can use all the online apps that are not blocked. A wiki project, student created web pages, and blogging are just a few things rattling around my brain. We also have played with Oracle’s Smart.com that we should revisit now that we have this kind of access. It is a secure social network that is totally monitored.
I am looking forward to breaking this new cart in and pushing students to their educational limits. The hard part is deciding what to do first.
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