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I am looking at the HTC Magic and the iPhone pages...

2009-07-07T13:51:51.693+12:00

I am looking at the HTC Magic and the iPhone pages on Vodafone and I see that for $130 a month you get 500MB in both handsets.

Not only that but the iPhone 16GB costs $199 on this plan, and the HTC Magic costs $399.

So obviously Vodafone did not manage to get better prices by participating in the process...

Yip, me up for the challenge. Let the best machin...

2008-12-17T16:32:00.000+13:00

Yip, me up for the challenge. Let the best machine win LOL. Or not as the case maybe. I have a feeling each are going to be good in different ways. It will be awesome to compare as the year progresses.

Thanks, and well done to you for making the finals...

2008-11-16T21:50:00.000+13:00

Thanks, and well done to you for making the finals too! The competition has opened my eyes to some new blogs to follow (like yours) so I will be keeping up with what is happening at your school from now on. Well done to Pete too - great achievement.

I agree.but they need atleast 2-3 gb of storage

2008-10-21T09:37:00.000+13:00

I agree.
but they need atleast 2-3 gb of storage

1.wifi2.camera/video camera3.educational games4.in...

2008-10-21T09:35:00.000+13:00

1.wifi

2.camera/video camera

3.educational games

4.internet

5.full what ever it is keyboard

6.media player

7. removable storage

8.mini usb connection

What about videos yeah i got all of the but not US...

2008-10-21T09:31:00.000+13:00

What about videos yeah i got all of the but not USB connection

Do We need Bluetooth

Great to hear that the unconference idea went down...

2008-10-02T19:11:00.000+13:00

Great to hear that the unconference idea went down a treat! Sounds like there were a lot of interesting topics and tools covered.

Oh that's a shame.You need to have a nice word wit...

2008-09-14T09:12:00.000+12:00

Oh that's a shame.You need to have a nice word with your IT guys, get on their good side,and find out what the problem is. Is it your filtering system 'watchdog etc'?- because you can just add it to the white list. A spam problem? -apparently googledocs was getting spoofed by an external agency (spamers) not too long ago but this is sorted out now. Or just fear of opening up the cloud.If it's the later it might take you a bit longer to change their mind but don't give in trying.Just remember they are nice guys really and are just trying to protect the system.

What was it that Bill Gates said 'Be nice to the geeks because they will be your boses'!

The geek will inherit the world.

Thanks for the links. I'll try these out soon, Exams are over now, just a few hundred papers to mark then back to normality.

Did you like the Eee900? Was it Linux or Windows?

Unfortunately Google Docs is blocked in our school...

2008-09-12T13:25:00.000+12:00

Unfortunately Google Docs is blocked in our school, but my advanced maths class is getting a lot of use out of Google Sites (sites.google.com and igoogle.com). It's really simple to collaborate and share a portfolio or class project. Of course policing all these new sites would be a nightmare, but I trust them. Funny how teaching webdesign using Frontpage was considered an appropriate ICT lesson once, seems very redundant now.

Have you tried out Phun Physics?
http://www.phunland.com/

or Pivot Stickman:
http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/pivot.html

I'm going to give this a try tonight:
http://atmosphir.com/

I'm writing on a trial eeepc 900 right now, which I am unfortunately having to box-up and return right after I type this.

Well done on speech result I believe your right in...

2008-09-09T20:14:00.000+12:00

Well done on speech result I believe your right in that feedback and authenticity add to learning. Though not a great follower of summative assessment, natural peer and wide formative assessment cant help but increase summative results. Hear is another example http://lietze.edublogs.org/2008/08/31/using-voicethread-successfully/

using speeches also.

Hey good to see Google docs spreadsheet working wi...

2008-08-24T22:58:00.000+12:00

Hey good to see Google docs spreadsheet working with a whole class of editors. Their word app seemed to struggle with 3 plus editors. What I like about Google is you get so much for one sign on and a lot of people have gmail already can take a lot of time maintaining accounts in read write web even with open-id. Hardwork prob for a whole class of learners. http://education-realitycheck.blogspot.com/

Thanxs for that Alan fingers crossed it runs on th...

2008-08-24T16:03:00.000+12:00

Thanxs for that Alan fingers crossed it runs on the EeePCs.

Cheers Alan, Ill have a go at running that and mak...

2008-08-24T15:33:00.000+12:00

Cheers Alan, Ill have a go at running that and make a post to let you kow how it goes.It might be a month or two though as it's school exams in a couple of weeks and we need to do some revision first.PS if you need to know anything more specific feel free to ask here or contact me on my email cravenl@gmail.com

Tutpup.com is a good alternative our school is try...

2008-08-21T10:49:00.000+12:00

Tutpup.com is a good alternative our school is trying. It has the competition aspect as well as being able to create classrooms groups and view individual progress. But best of all its free.

Hi,I was reading your site because our school in W...

2008-08-21T10:29:00.000+12:00

Hi,
I was reading your site because our school in Wellington is looking into mini laptops like the eeepc too.

We use Scratch alot, and there is a version that runs on linux now, it just can't do the fullscreen view.

http://www.notesmine.com/scratch_installer
http://www.tcpdpodcast.org/scratch.html
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=21&p=1

i am also very interested in making simple cuts on...

2008-05-25T01:53:00.000+12:00

i am also very interested in making simple cuts on the eee pc from the flip cam as a location scout and storyboarding aid.

i am mostly familiar with avid and fcp nle systems and find the imovie type interface of most of the linux programs out there to be time consuming and confusing.

i have been using cinelerra but with little success. it's interface is counter-intuitive and each of the export (render) codecs i've tried have given me buggy video without audio.

quality means very little to me as these are rough drafts, but speed is very important.

has anyone made any progress with a fast dirty solution?

We certainly need lots of processing power to proc...

2008-02-27T10:25:00.000+13:00

We certainly need lots of processing power to process over 1.2 billion webpages per month.

Daniel
Opera Software

Hey interesting approach for current events. I str...

2008-02-10T21:23:00.000+13:00

Hey interesting approach for current events. I struggle with this one. I am interested in world events, sports personally and not adverse to a little gossip etc. I personally ? the place of current events based on recall but like the idea of discussion etc.may help us move down in Glassers list

How We Learn

10% of what we READ

20% of what we HEAR

30% of what we SEE

50% of what we SEE and HEAR

70% of what is DISCUSSED with OTHERS

80% of what is EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY

95% of what we TEACH TO SOMEONE ELSE

William Glasser

I do agree the accepted definition of mobile is be...

2008-01-19T14:23:00.000+13:00

I do agree the accepted definition of mobile is being able fit in your pocket.