earlier this year i trialled a box system of computers (softexpand) – school went with xpandabox (no idea how it’s spelt!)
today i got three back which means i now have 4 computers running – unfortunately these three that are connected can only run ONE instance of firefox at a time (not particularly helpful) so i d/l chrome and will run IE on one
and hopefully my kids will be back blogging and sharing work during the final 5 weeks of school …
I am a:
I have a secret passion – well – maybe not so secret – teaching is not about feeding information into kids brains – it’s about creating a place where kids are inspired, enthused, excited about discovery and learning – so my goal as a teacher is to leave my kids wanting more and having the skills to find out more.
This year I’ve moved up a year level and am enjoying the more sophisticated conversations and explorations that we are having in the classroom. It’s exciting to see kids motivated because our classroom is using 21st Century tools for their everyday teaching and learning.
This blog is really for my reflective practise – about things that have worked (or not worked) in my classroom and to share these with others in my PLN.
I should also mention that I’m a Kiwi living in the North Island of New Zealand (just north of Wellington).
We have a similar system running at our school we use Xtendas. We haven’t had any problems with explorer complaining of more than one instance running but we have had issues with movie making/editing software. Despite these issues it has expanded our children’s access to computers in general and for low processer/ram requirements like web browsing, word processing and simple games it is fantastic… a great money saver too!!
Actually i think ours are xtendas too
i prefer to use firefox but will use whatever if it means the kids can use computers in the classroom. I need to figure out some really effective ways to use the computers (not this year as we only have 1-1/2 weeks left of school) as part of the literacy/numeracy/topic etc etc programmes.
If it were only me there would be no problem as i use computers all the time for almost everything – but having to break it down for kids is actually quite hard.