(Though I'm not sure how 1920x1200 would look on a 15" screen the pixels would be tiny as hell.)
I have an HP Compaq nw8240 from their "mobile workstation" line and it has a 15" 1920x1200 screen. The pixels are tiny but the screen real estate is awesome.:)
I had an instructor a few years ago that used Excel for grades. He'd "hide" the column with our names, leaving only the student number, and then password protect the spreadsheet so that we could only read it. He'd then post the file on his campus web directory, allowing us to see our grades.
The campus is a Microsoft only facility, but I used Slackware at home. So when I opened the file at home, I noticed I could "unhide" the columns and had access to each students, their student number, their assignment scores, AND their overall grade.
The OpenOffice suite is a great alternative, but it definitely isn't a 100% replacement. I happen to think it's a better option.
As someone who's used Moho with BeOS, Windows, and now on my Slackware Linux machine, Moho is really stable and is constantly getting better. I'm not an professional (far from it), but 2-D animation has always fascinated me and Moho seems to be the best value out there. This is especially true for those of us hobbyists who can't/don't want to spend multi-hundred dollars for a program just to "play with".
As someone who ran a K-5 computer lab in the late 90s, I know I found that the quality of software for education varied greatly. A lot of software was good only for entertainment value. Just because the publisher says it's an "educational" game, that doesn't automatically qualify it as usable in a classroom. We spent too much money on software that turned out to be unsuitable for our academic goals.
Effective use of computers in the classroom requires writing well thought out lesson plans. Using the computer as a reward is fine, but integrate it smartly into the curriculum, as a supplemental tool to learning, not in place of other methods.
There's a lot more to learning than throwing random hardware and software in the classroom.
We can all think of examples of where the more technically advance product never had the market share like a less sophisticated competitor did.
Atari 2600/VCS vs. Intellivision Commodore 64 vs. Atari 8-bit
These are the two that come to my mind. I had both the Intellivision and Atari 8-bit computers growing up but my friends with the 2600/C64 always had a better selection of software/hardware.
The C-130 is a totally different airplane from the P-3 series. They are both larger, 4-turbo prop powered, cargo style planes. It's like saying the Land Rover Discovery is the same as the Ford Explorer. They are both in the same category, but are totally different vehicles from different manufacturers.
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(Though I'm not sure how 1920x1200 would look on a 15" screen the pixels would be tiny as hell.)
I have an HP Compaq nw8240 from their "mobile workstation" line and it has a 15" 1920x1200 screen. The pixels are tiny but the screen real estate is awesome. :)
I had an instructor a few years ago that used Excel for grades. He'd "hide" the column with our names, leaving only the student number, and then password protect the spreadsheet so that we could only read it. He'd then post the file on his campus web directory, allowing us to see our grades.
The campus is a Microsoft only facility, but I used Slackware at home. So when I opened the file at home, I noticed I could "unhide" the columns and had access to each students, their student number, their assignment scores, AND their overall grade.
The OpenOffice suite is a great alternative, but it definitely isn't a 100% replacement. I happen to think it's a better option.
As someone who's used Moho with BeOS, Windows, and now on my Slackware Linux machine, Moho is really stable and is constantly getting better. I'm not an professional (far from it), but 2-D animation has always fascinated me and Moho seems to be the best value out there. This is especially true for those of us hobbyists who can't/don't want to spend multi-hundred dollars for a program just to "play with".
Tuna
http://www.foosballdiaries.com/
As someone who ran a K-5 computer lab in the late 90s, I know I found that the quality of software for education varied greatly. A lot of software was good only for entertainment value. Just because the publisher says it's an "educational" game, that doesn't automatically qualify it as usable in a classroom. We spent too much money on software that turned out to be unsuitable for our academic goals.
Effective use of computers in the classroom requires writing well thought out lesson plans. Using the computer as a reward is fine, but integrate it smartly into the curriculum, as a supplemental tool to learning, not in place of other methods.
There's a lot more to learning than throwing random hardware and software in the classroom.
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We can all think of examples of where the more technically advance product never had the market share like a less sophisticated competitor did.
Atari 2600/VCS vs. Intellivision
Commodore 64 vs. Atari 8-bit
These are the two that come to my mind. I had both the Intellivision and Atari 8-bit computers growing up but my friends with the 2600/C64 always had a better selection of software/hardware.
Tuna
The C-130 is a totally different airplane from the P-3 series. They are both larger, 4-turbo prop powered, cargo style planes. It's like saying the Land Rover Discovery is the same as the Ford Explorer. They are both in the same category, but are totally different vehicles from different manufacturers.