Kind of why it is worth going for a unit that is as cheap as you can. Despite what computer vendors say or imply, netbooks are not mini-laptops . They will depreciate fast in 3 years so we may expect a local cottage industry to repair etc. My guess is we can expect even another revolution about to wipe out the netbooks but i'll reserve my forecast for the VITTA journal :-) Slightly off topic .. but did you know that a child can repair an OLPC netbook with one screwdriver? Check this video out that Joel Stanley published on YouTube<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pus_fA1Tv9w" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pus_fA1Tv9w</a><br><br>World deployment map (<br> <a href="http://maps.google.de/maps/ms?hl=de&gl=de&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=114558805698125207804.000440a3d84313e9c1ecd&z=1" target="_blank">http://maps.google.de/maps/ms?hl=de&gl=de&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=114558805698125207804.000440a3d84313e9c1ecd&z=1</a><br>
<br>And Australia (missing some points :-(<br> <a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&ll=-23.443089,134.472656&spn=28.82194,57.084961&z=5&msid=104569102456467337022.000459a5ebdf2f82145fb">http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&ll=-23.443089,134.472656&spn=28.82194,57.084961&z=5&msid=104569102456467337022.000459a5ebdf2f82145fb</a><br>
<br>I am working through an outline of a very different preconference workshop for ACEC2010 <a href="http://www.acec2010.info">http://www.acec2010.info</a> next year based on these but have to talk over the details with some friends first. :-)<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/31 Colin SYMONS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:CSY@gwsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">CSY@gwsc.vic.edu.au</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We have purchased 3 of each type of Netbook on the list to try them out. Our Techies are creating an image for them at the moment so I can't give much detail about their pro's and con's or any difficulty with certain software, but shall keep people informed as the trial develops.<br>
At the moment it looks like we may phase them in at year 9 next year. We have a 2020 program where a quarter of our yr 9 students (78 kids) participate in a special 4 week program. As each house group starts the program, spread out over term 2-4, our current thinking is to provide them with a netbook for them to take home and keep. This would mean the issuing of 4 lots of 78 rather than one huge group of 312. A repeat of the procedure the following year as we try to reach the 1:1 9-12 ratio.<br>
Issues of what happens when they reach yr12 with a 4 year old machine, and of course most warranties/insurance cover 3 yrs?<br>
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Colin Symons<br>
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NSW is going netbooks (Lenovo) for every teacher and yr 9-12 student with their DER funding : interesting to see how that goes<br>
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personally i'd think netbooks might be better suited to primary & early secondary like the Vic trials<br>
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don't think the cost difference to a more powerful laptop is that much- i'd prefer to use something with higher specs and i think many senior students might as well - we'll see how it goes i guess<br>
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Thanks Kevork for starting the discussion. We are also looking at it but<br>
having a great range of discussion as to what year level we give too. We<br>
can only fund one year level. Some have said that Year 10 would be<br>
better, I argue that year 7 because they may have been exposed to them<br>
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I have heard that the insurance is quite expensive.<br>
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We are at an important crossroad/milestone in our school regarding<br>
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We are committed to introducing new Netbooks/Laptops/Notebooks in 2010<br>
which students keep, take home, are responsible for and need to manage.<br>
I know it sounds like horse before cart but we are determined to make it<br>
work.<br>
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We are keen hear from any other school expecially regarding any<br>
pitfalls, issues, preferred choices for brands, reliability, service,<br>
software and hardware, application installations, warranties etc etc.<br>
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like to hear about these experiences for their own research also.<br>
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