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I am still upset that a single platform has been chosen for the teacher
workstation. If you want teachers to use the technololy than it has to be
easy. Graham Hill is a Mac school. We have imacs in all of the classrooms.
The teachers know how to use them. Why should they have to learn another
platform? Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, and now XP have never been as easy to
use as a Mac, no matter how hard MS tries to be Mac-like. Teachers have
better things to do with their time than learn another buggy Microsoft
operating system. I think perhaps the district has sold its soul to
Microsoft.
According to the information on inside.seattleschools.org the "application
to access student information" and the "application to communicate with
District administration, parents and students" are web based. Doesn't this
mean it can be used by both mac and PC?
Also according to the "inside" information each school is going to have a
few PC laptops they can check out. If they don't want the laptops they can
trade them in for projection devices or some other equipment yet to be
determined. How about if we don't get laptops and take the money we save to
upgrade from PCs to Macs?
Laura Nicol
lenicol@seattleschools.org
Graham Hill
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