Comments on: So far it has been a blast…. http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/11/13/so-far-it-has-been-a-blast/ Comments, reflections and occasional brainstorms Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:45:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.4-bleeding By: Ewan McIntosh http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/11/13/so-far-it-has-been-a-blast/#comment-389 Ewan McIntosh Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:41:41 +0000 http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/11/13/so-far-it-has-been-a-blast/#comment-389 <a></a>Internet reliability is a pain and not limited to the US. In Scotland we have the network down in some Local Authorities every other day. How can we work like that? The "laptop carts" (we call them classroom in a box) are great but have no wireless connection in the school where I used to work and there are too few of the laptops to make forward planning with them feasible. As Scotland spends 37.5 million pounds (50 million dollars) on a national high-speed intranet/internet interconnect in the form of the Scottish Schools Digital Network (<a href="http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/ssdn" rel="nofollow">http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/ssdn</a>), for which I am working on a content pilot for ML teachers (<a href="http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle" rel="nofollow">http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle</a>) I wonder just how much Local Authorities are planning locally to make it a success in their schools. My argument is that the kids have so much technology at their disposal at home and in their pockets we should be making more use of that through blogging and classroom wikis (and potentially home podcasting as part of a class podcast project). Overnight we can double/triple our hardware capacity in schools. Just a thought... ;-) Internet reliability is a pain and not limited to the US. In Scotland we have the network down in some Local Authorities every other day. How can we work like that? The “laptop carts” (we call them classroom in a box) are great but have no wireless connection in the school where I used to work and there are too few of the laptops to make forward planning with them feasible. As Scotland spends 37.5 million pounds (50 million dollars) on a national high-speed intranet/internet interconnect in the form of the Scottish Schools Digital Network (http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/ssdn), for which I am working on a content pilot for ML teachers (http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle) I wonder just how much Local Authorities are planning locally to make it a success in their schools.

My argument is that the kids have so much technology at their disposal at home and in their pockets we should be making more use of that through blogging and classroom wikis (and potentially home podcasting as part of a class podcast project). Overnight we can double/triple our hardware capacity in schools. Just a thought… ;-)

]]> By: James Farmer http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/11/13/so-far-it-has-been-a-blast/#comment-388 James Farmer Mon, 14 Nov 2005 03:54:13 +0000 http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/11/13/so-far-it-has-been-a-blast/#comment-388 <a></a>Hey Anne, Have been enjoying your posts recently... wondered also if youve had time to take a twirl past learnerblogs.org yet? Cheers, James Hey Anne,

Have been enjoying your posts recently… wondered also if youve had time to take a twirl past learnerblogs.org yet?

Cheers, James

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