The Learning with Laptops Web Site

Dateline: 05/21/97 - by Walter H. Horowitz, Vice President, NoteSys, Inc.

For the past year, Microsoft has been working with over 50 schools around the United States to use computers in a new way in classrooms. In each school, students are using a laptop computer in both in school and at home at night and weekends. This program was modeled on program that has been working for eight years in Australia. At the Learning with Laptops Summit held in April, the existing schools told their stories to over 200 more schools that are considering joining the program.

Now Microsoft has made the web site devoted to this program open to the public. They are collecting resources and information that will be of interest to any school considering using laptop computers. The site is organized into the following sections.

• Implementation
  An overview to get you started including a road map that outlines the implementation process and a collection of resources to help you implement laptops into your school.
• Educator Resource
  A collection of resources to help teachers successfully implement laptops into the classroom, including lesson plans, training resources, reading materials, related Web sites, and more.
• Discussion forum
  A place for educators to converse and exchange ideas, suggestions, challenges, and solutions.
• Laptop Schools
  Search through the new laptop school database and read about about Laptop Schools In Action.
• Summit 97
  Some of the PowerPoint presentations made at the '97 Learning with Laptops Summit are available for download. You can order copies of the video tapes made of many of the presentations.
• News & Events
  See the news on Learning With Laptops.

Is anybody out there reading this? Is there something you like? Do you disagree with anything I have written? How about just dropping me a line telling me you were here. I can be reached via email at walterh@notesys.com.

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