My Third Day at the 06 Laptop Institute
8:30: Thinking Outside the Box by Dan Hudkins, Stewart Crais, and odd duck Barry Leibson.
This was a discussion about why to do a laptop program. I’ll blog about this later, since I didn’t take any notes.
10:15: Sally Bowes (computers) and Cheryl Douglas (biologist) from Bishops Diosecan College, an all-boys school in South Africa
[I missed the first 10 minutes because I was chatting up people after my session.]
Created a web-based management system for inventory, network management, help desk, booking system, laptop tracking (out for repair), macro planner (to ensure a kid isn’t hit too hard at any one time), CMS, etc.
They are building a parents portal, too.
They use Contribute (+ Dreamweaver templates) for class web pages.
Because the school is wealthy in a country of tremendous poverty, they carry a responsibility to share what they have with others. They have offered training to teachers of other schools, consulted with them.
They showed a video showing the Bishop’s outreach efforts into the townships.
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