Starting a Laptop Program

I would like to thank Lenovo and Captial Technology & Leasing for asking me to present on Preparing your school for a One-to-One program in Milwaukee. I spent 12 wonderful years in Wisconsin and it was nice to "be home."

The presentation can be found here.

The presentation is derived from the work done on the 1:1 Readiness Instrument developed by Educational Collaborators. This group has over 125 years of collective experience leading K-12 One-to-One programs and can help schools with their programs, beginning with this free tool.

The Great Laptop Debate

I just learned of a fantastic blog giving us a wonderful peek into the debate of a community whose public school district is seeking to implement a 1:1 laptop program. They were kind enough to include a link to this blog, though I do not know if they seek to include Linux in their program. However, it really doesn't matter. Though Linux can save a lot of money with laptop programs, the goal is not to save money or deploy computers. The goal is to help students learn how to become great learners in the ever-changing global marketplace of the 21st Century.

The town is Oberlin, Ohio and the blog is called Community Diaries. I encourage you to take a look. Though I am sure many great things will be added to this discussion, I would begin with the comments made to the bottom post on the blog.

Enjoy!

Brainshare '07: SLED in a 1:1 Education Environment

I am currently at Brainshare, Novell's annual conference to celebrate and learn about Novell Technologies. We are heavy user's of Novell's products, primarily SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED 10) and Zenworks. I am giving two presentations at the conference.

The first is Using SLED10 in a Mobile 1:1 Education Environment. The presentation was created with OpenOffice but is distributed here as a PowerPoint file for those users who don't have OpenOffice. Obviously, if you have OpenOffice, you know you can open PowerPoint files.

I am learning a great deal at Brainshare and hope to find the time to share some of my discoveries.