<img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Teacher/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.jpg" alt="">The perfect, low maintenance, easy to use tablet computer for note taking? Bring back the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch">
etch-a-sketch</a>! <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><p align="left">Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has a distorted display.
What should I do? <br>
A: Pick it up and shake it. </p><p>Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has these funny little lines all over
the screen. <br>
A: Pick it up and shake it.
</p><p>Q: How do I turn my Etch-A-Sketch off? <br>
A: Pick it up and shake it. Set it down.
</p><p>Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has lines that prevent me from doing
my art project. <br>
A: Pick it up and shake it.
</p><p>Q: How do I delete a document from my Etch-A-Sketch? <br>
A: Pick it up and shake it.
</p><p>Q: How do I keep from losing my Etch-A-Sketch document? <br>
A: Stop shaking it.
</p></blockquote>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 08/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cameron Bell</b> <<a href="mailto:bell.cameron.p@edumail.vic.gov.au">bell.cameron.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yeah.....Whiteboard markers were created by the same people that created<br>inkjet printers and mens razors.
<br>BUT.. how long before we get a class-action (appropriate term) against<br>the manufacturers of chalk and schools because all the chalkdust<br>teachers inhaled over the years lead to them becoming grumpy old<br>curmudgeons that reckon anything new is a fad. ;)
<br><br>Cameron<br><br><br>Mark Scott wrote:<br>> Not just Publisher but PowerPoint as well.<br>><br>> Both are an utter waste of space in an educational setting.<br>><br>> They both detract from learning and add nothing.
<br>><br>> And as for SMARTboards; what a waste of time. Just another way of<br>> teachers teaching and ignoring student learning.<br>><br>> ...and whiteboard markers. Just a clever way of forcing change on
<br>> schools and forcing them to spend money.<br>><br>> Bring back good old chalk I say.<br>><br>> Mark Scott<br>><br>> (I won't start on laptop computers...)<br>><br>><br>> -----Original Message-----
<br>> From: <a href="mailto:offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au">offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au</a><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au">offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] On Behalf Of Jim Maunder
<br>> Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:02 AM<br>> To: Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List<br>> Subject: RE: [Offtopic] GIMP<br>><br>> At 09:31 AM 8/03/2007, you wrote:<br>><br>><br>
>> This has been an issue in every school I have worked in.<br>>><br>>> Still don't know what the solution is?<br>>><br>>> Shoot them all, maybe?<br>>><br>>> Mark<br>>><br>
>> -----Original Message-----<br>>> From: <a href="mailto:offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au">offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au</a><br>>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au">offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au
</a>] On Behalf Of Jim Maunder<br>>> Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2007 9:25 AM<br>>> To: Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List<br>>> Subject: RE: [Offtopic] GIMP<br>>><br>>> Now all you've got to do is stop them wingeing about not having Macs.
<br>>><br>><br>> Look at it the other way - if it was an all-Mac school the IT<br>> teaching staff would winge about not having PCs. I think it's about<br>> what the users perceive is the standard for their industry. The
<br>> reality is that Macs and PCs are functionally interchangeable. It's<br>> just that PCs are easier to look after.<br>><br>> Now about MS Publisher - you teachers need to think about what you<br>> are teaching/fostering - is it DTP skills, or subject research
<br>> skills. I'm sure that when I was in primary school doing a 'project'<br>> the main purpose of the task was not learning to cut out pictures and<br>> glue them onto cardboard. However, there are probably useful skills
<br>> to be gained from laying out text and pictures on a mark-up board,<br>> working out how to centre text without using the 'justify' button etc.<br>><br>> On a similar vein there are plenty of bookkeepers and accountants who
<br>> were drawn to their professions because they loved the physical<br>> process of writing numbers in columns and adding them up in their<br>> heads, and plenty of Engineers and Architects who love drawing plans
<br>> with pencil and tracing paper. (I was one of these in a previous<br>> life) They have had these processes removed from their lives by<br>> computers, and while some have taken to the new way of working,<br>
> others still like the old way. So it is with publishing.<br>><br>> Just this old fart's waffle - now get back to work!<br>><br>> rgds<br>> Jim<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> -----------------------------------------------------------
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