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Hello Stephen, (No Hijacking intended)<br><br>
Not sure I agree. My view is that the more tech. that teachers and
students alike are exposed to the better. It's up to the school to
decide how to best use these technologies in learning environments.
But I have serious doubts that the majority of Leading Teachers, School
Managers (ie: Principals, APs) would have the slightest about what
I'm talking about. Just go into your next staff meeting and tell them
they're all to use iPods for teaching in 2007. <br><br>
Podcasting, video, audio, animation, games are all part of the 'new'
technologies that have been booming for the past two years. And I
would like to use these technologies in the classroom. And not just
in IT/Multi-Media. <br><br>
And I would like my next laptop (coming up later this year) to be an
Intel Mac with ipod, dig.camera and anything else you can throw in.
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regards, <br>
Zach Alexakos<br>
Nth Geelong SC<br><br>
ps: and yes, the Notebook staff are extremely helpful. <br><br>
At 08:29 AM 14/02/2006, Stephen Digby
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<li>The disappearance of the distracting "gift" offers with Mac
notebooks is a great relief as staff choices were being made on personal
benefit rather than organisational benefit.
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