Our trials of the Asus Minibook are ongoing. This week we will be recalling the machines and installing Windows XP; comparisons to follow…
In the meantime, here are Stephen Fry’s thoughts…
(Thanks to Douglas for the link)
“This is a computer designed as an introductory machine for children or adults, as well as a simple cheap do-it-all machine along [...]
Following discussion last week and a few requests over the weekend, I have set up an open wiki for the discussion of the ASUS MiniBook. Please feel free to read and edit away.
Click here to access the wiki.
Your thoughts will be most welcome.
*I have chosen to use the wetpaint wiki platform this time as I [...]
If you want to find out how our ASUS MiniBook trials are going you can pop over to the following weblogs:
Lynne Lewis- PT Athelstaneford Primary School.
Robert Jones- Maths Teacher, North Berwick High School
Ollie Bray- Deputy Head Musselburgh Grammar School (Ollie will pick up his machine tonight)
Lots of Screen shots can be found on flickr here.
We will [...]
I have now had a chance to explore the RM ASUS MiniBook further. We have five of these machines in East Lothian. These are being trialled by a number of teaching staff. In addition to my recent post, here are a few more of my thoughts.
Here are a few of my notes- bearing in mind I am reflecting [...]
Something to lift us out of tonight’s horrible weather!
(Thanks to Mr W for the J-Peg)
Today I spent the day at Prestonpans Education Centre for Day 2 of our Glow Operational Training, and I am still buzzing!
As I you will be aware, there are two administrator roles in Glow. These are the Accounts [...]
The final highlight of BETT was the TeachMeet on the Friday night. In Scotland we have hosted a number of these un-conferences. These were ably coordinated by Ewan McIntosh. The idea is that anyone can share cool ideas they have or great ideas they’ve trialled in their classrooms. All they needed to do was to [...]
As I mentioned in my last post RM had a large presence at BETT 2008. I would like to take this opportunity to thank RM for their outstanding hospitality throughout the event. Firstly, for the meal on Thursday night. It was excellent and the company was great fun- it is always nice to put a face to [...]
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RM specialises in providing products and services to schools, colleges, universities and government education departments & agencies. While RM is primarily involved in supplying information communications and technology (ICT) services to UK education, the group also includes companies providing educational software in the US and school management software in the Asia Pacific region.
RM is also [...]
With the summer holiday behind us, today saw the first teaching day of the summer term here in East Lothian. We have all returned back to school bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to tackle the year ahead. One particular question that I have been asked by a number of colleagues is ‘What is the [...]
My first port of call during this summer holiday was to London to stay with my wonderful Grandmother. As always, during my trips there, I like to catch up with as many of my friends and family as possible. My very good friend Karen McCrone is a teacher of Media Studies at the Charles Darwin School in Biggin [...]
