We have been using a portable lab K-5 for the last 5 years. It really works well as we have someone responsible for the lab and makes sure that they are taken care of. We also have portable labs that have been dismantled due to lack of supervision. As for the computers in the room, that depends on the teachers. I found very few used them other than when they did centers, so they just sat in the room. We ended up pulling all of them out and now use just the portable lab. If you have any questions let me know.
Keith Stoeber Network Administrator Cross Country Coach / Assistant Track Coach Sioux Central CSD 4440 US Highway 71 Sioux Rapids, IA 50585 (P) 712-283-2571 x 5900 (F) 712-283-2285 "Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation." - John F. Kennedy ---------------------------------------- From: "Bruce Ludwig" <ludw...@lemars.k12.ia.us> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:33 AM To: "info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us" <info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us> Subject: [info-tech] Mini Computer Lab Sorry for all the other information. Meant to take the other stuff from the Sioux City School out. Here it is again. Good Morning: I am asking thoughts from our aea and aea8 tech groups. Would like to know your feelings on switching from a computer lab to mobile labs in a K-5 setting. I really have mixed feelings and wanted to get more ideas from the group. We currently have a lab of 24 desktops, we would take and put 3 in each section 3-5 in their classroom from the computer lab. Our lab would be a lab of 24 minis on a cart. Thanks for the feedback. Have a great day. Bruce Ludwig LeMars Community Schools LeMars, IA 51031 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
