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Sunday, 05 July 2009

Teacher’s throughout NSW DET schools are starting to receive their DER netbooks.

I got mine on Friday, and chose a bright red skin for the outside.

redbook

To give you an idea of the screen real-estate, here is a screenshot with GeoGebra open (click the thumbnail below for full-size).

Tomorrow I’m going to a training course run by PD4Maths about GeoGebra, I’m going to take along this little machine to get some practical experience using it.

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Gravatar for bb on  05 July 09  at  04:34 PM #

Have you tried connecting it to an interactive whiteboard??

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Gravatar for Simon JobSimon Job on  05 July 09  at  04:39 PM #

No. But, as the Interactive Whiteboard in my classroom is an InterWrite – and the drivers for that are not installed on the machine, it’s not going to work.
It probably would work if the board was a SMART, as it has the software and drivers.

Gravatar for Brad BennettBrad Bennett on  05 July 09  at  05:23 PM #

Is Windows Aero disabled by default?

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Gravatar for Simon JobSimon Job on  05 July 09  at  05:40 PM #

By default a basic Windows Theme is selected, but you can switch to Aero, see screenshot.

(Being a Mac user, by Aero you mean the transparent window effect right?)

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