Tuesday, October 16, 2007

1:1 Learning Management: SchoolVue

One of the initial challenges of transitioning to a 1:1 high school has been classroom management. Conversations about managing the online learning environments, both in classrooms and on the web, are happening in many areas of the school. There are so many variables to consider: planning using 1:1 tools, seating arrangements, modes of learning, teaching laptop behavior, honesty and integrity. The conversations will continue...
In the meantime, I ran across CrossTec School Vue on Wes Fryer's blog, software that integrates all computers in a classroom. In addition to making laptop class usage more transparent for teachers, School Vue offers some interesting collaborative features. Here are some screenshots from CrossTec's website. They might be too small, but they show a teacher screen monitoring all student desktops and a list of applications and sites visited by students.

2 comments:

Tom Hoffman said...

iTALC is free software widely used in Indiana 1-to-1 classrooms that does a lot of (but not all) the same things.

C. Watson said...

Today, I received a message from Genevalogic. Their system looks pretty good too.