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Shopping for a Chromebook lately has become a difficult task unless you’re buying bargain basement or top-of-the-line devices. A quick search of Amazon produces grossly inflated prices on Chromebooks that normally land in the $350 range. Best Buy, on the other hand, is simply out of stock on nearly every Chromebook that the retailer would […]
Like many, we received word last week that our daughter’s school district would continue NTI (non-traditional instruction) or remote learning all the way to the end of the school year. These decisions are tough to make but if it means curbing the spread of illness, it is the best decision. The move to finish out […]
There has been a ton of talk lately about video meeting applications and rightfully so. Millions upon millions of students, employees and just about everyone else has had to make the shift to online chat as a primary source of communication and means to stay connected during this time of telecommuting, homeschooling and simply staying […]
Chances are good that you, your kids or both have had to adopt some form of video chat software over the past few weeks. Rightfully so, video conferencing has seen exponential growth since millions have made the move to working from home and non-traditional homeschooling. Jumping into a video chat with a handful of users […]
Chromebooks built specifically for education often get a pass on harsher criticisms but the fact of the matter is, more and more children are getting their first PC experience of some form of ruggedized, low-powered EDU device. For that reason, I feel strongly that manufacturers need to step up their game when it comes to […]
Chrome extensions are like prescription drugs: you don’t want to use too many at one time! Here’s the secret that Chrome pros use to make managing extensions a little bit easier.
For millions of Americans, day-to-day life just took a U-turn and landed many in situations that no one could have expected, let alone prepared for. I’ll leave the political and medical rigamarole to other websites authors and instead, focus on make lemonade out of lemons. With countless kids now essentially telecommuting for school and us […]
Much like many districts across the country, our local schools sent home surveys last week to see how many households would be capable of providing “non-traditional instruction” for the kiddos. Put simply, schools are looking to provide online lessons as thousands of institutions have closed their doors in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Administrators […]
Nearly a year ago to the day, we discovered that Lenovo was quietly refreshing their EDU Chromebook lineup with the newer Gemini Lake processors from Intel as well as recycling the ARM-based MediaTek chipset that has powered quite of few of the companies Chromebooks. Well, while I was digging around on Lenovo’s product reference site […]
Among the many announcements that came out of BETT 2020 in London, Google has unveiled a number of updates to the Chromebook App Hub. The app shop designed for educators features not only applications from learning and creation but a plethora of “ideas” to help inspire teachers to make the most out of the technology […]
BETT’s annual technology in education conference in London has been the launchpad for a variety of EDU Chromebooks in recent years but this year’s event has produced an unusually robust amount of new in the Chrome and Chrome OS departments. First, Acer debuted what could very well be the most durable Chromebook ever created. Next […]
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Acer just announced the Chromebook 712 and in many ways, this device is unique in not only the specs it brings to the table, but in the outer, ruggedized features as well. Education-focused Chromebooks tend to be thought of as corner-cutting, uninspired tanks; they get the job done for as little overhead as possible and […]
