Nickname: EducationDude

Review: >Nickname: M. T. MacPhee Time to review market caps 2006: Dell: $47.75 billion Apple: $63.26 billion 2008: DELL 50.97B AAPL 153.70B (Apple) GOOG 148.47B HP 115.62B IBM 165.53B

Date reviewed: Aug 26, 2008 7:32 PM

Nickname: clint

Review: Re: your Bob Vila article: I am a little confused about the applicability to the US real estate market of the removable German cabinets. In Germany, kitchens are not furnished, i.e., you buy or even rent an empty room - nothing on the walls or on the floor. Buyers and renters have to buy their own cabinets.

Date reviewed: Oct 1, 2006 6:23 PM

Nickname: systeq

Review: Cynthia, our school isn't in a "rich" district either. As a charter school. we get less funds than a traditional school in a district. However, through thorough bookkeeping and financial planning as well as a few grants that have been awarded to the school, we have been able to acquire the technology that is currently in place.

Date reviewed: Sep 26, 2006 6:34 PM

Nickname: Mark

Review: This is certainly more technology than I had when I went to public schools. It's good to see. A project I've read about that might be worth considering for educational software is "EToys." It also goes by the name of "Squeak." It has a funny name, but I think it has potential. Best of all it's free. Kids can use it for writing papers, making presentations, learning math, experimenting with music, and creating their own simulations for scientific experiments. You can learn more about it at http://www.squeakland.org.

Date reviewed: Sep 24, 2006 5:53 AM

Nickname: Michael Starks

Review: If schools and vendors embraced open source software and open standards, the pace of computer adoption would speed up considerably and the cost of the technology would fall.

Date reviewed: Sep 23, 2006 6:16 PM

Nickname: Corinthia

Review: This is nice for weathly school districts, but in my city (Portland, Ore.), none of the schools have this level of tech and they can't afford to keep up with the physical needs of the school buildings, much less upgrade tech. So is this creating a greater divide before the issue of stable school funding in most places has been addressed?

Date reviewed: Sep 22, 2006 4:02 PM

Nickname: systeq

Review: Ha! I made the same mistake. Glad im not an educator ;) We actually have 6 PCs per classroom. No classroom is bigger than 20 students. Plus the 65 laptops, which can sustain 3 full classrooms at a time. That plus a computer lab with 30 PCs--not bad for the students. So much so that we had a waiting list for potential students in certain grade levels due to reaching capacity before the school year started. But enough about context errors. Doesn't anyone have valid input on this subject matter?

Date reviewed: Sep 22, 2006 1:27 PM

Nickname: M. T. MacPhee

Review: "But Dell (DELL) edged out its smaller rival" Smaller? You may want to review market caps. Nevermind. I'll do it for you: Dell: $47.75 billion Apple: $63.26 billion

Date reviewed: Sep 21, 2006 7:20 PM

Nickname: Mrrm

Review: Around here in Portugal I've been busy as a bee setting up new PCs, Macs, laptops at students' homes, responding to the orders of parents. These are under pressure for the secondary school syllabus, which includes research on the Internet and sending of e-mails to the school's address. Many families see the computer for the first time ever. To be fair, it's a bit of a caos around here. But I prefer this creative caos to the alternative: nothing at all. That's not because I trust the school systems, or the parents, or most of the teachers. I don't. But I trust in the kids. They follow Internet security basic rules and in less than a week I got absolutely amazing works, "papers," researches and the like flowing out. They study with a lot more enthusiasm and cannot ssem to wait to start their homework. Thanks Vannebar Bush. Thanks Doug Engelbart, Thanks Sir Tim Berners-Lee. See you tomorrow, young people of Portugal and young people of America. Doing amazing things. MMartins-Portugal

Date reviewed: Sep 20, 2006 10:03 PM

Nickname: Tom Giles

Review: Thanks to those of you who spotted the math error on the ratio of computers per student. I'm the editor of the channel. We regret the error and got it fixed.

Date reviewed: Sep 20, 2006 6:34 PM