Laptop news

Here's part of a story from www.eSchoolNews.com:

Just last month, fourth-graders at the Redlands Christian Migrant Association Community School in Immokalee, Fla., received XO computers from the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. It was part of a 10-week pilot program that began June 1.

Redlands joins South Carolina's Marion County School District and the Birmingham, Ala., school system in deploying low-cost ($200) XO laptops to students in the United States. Just this week, the Birmingham school board voted to accept the remaining 14,000 pre-purchased XO laptops from the city to give to elementary students after a pilot project with the first 1,000 laptops proved encouraging.

And in the latest example of the mini-laptop trend, FUSD [Fresno, CA] is deploying nearly 10,000 Mini-Note PCs from Hewlett-Packard Co. to students in grades two through 12 this fall.

"The teacher feedback from the pilot [at FUSD] was a lot more positive than we expected, considering the technical challenges of putting 1,000 small wireless laptops in 57 different classrooms," says Madden. "The creative ways our teachers and students took advantage of the computers at every grade level in every subject was absolutely amazing. At the end of the pilot, our teachers wouldn't give up the laptops when we collected them for refurbishment, unless they were assured that they would be returned in the fall."

For the story in its entirety: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=54502;_hbguid=d13a6db2-c165-415a-9bac-d9d16864407f

It looks to me like there are some school systems that are much further along than we are here in Collier County. I guess we have our work cut out for us to catch up!