We have also been working on a survey of parents views to the project. We are just putting the finishing touches to the survey. We hope that we can get most of the year seven parents to participate on academic review day 27th November. Combine this with the work the SJA has done with the students views, a quantitative study, we should be getting a really clear picture of what is happening.
Other activities that we have been involved in are an invitation to go to Perins School in Hampshire, they have netbooks for their students, a moodle installation and a series of other open source solutions that would be very interesting to see. we are hoping to get a visit organised for 22nd Jan INSET day.
We are also hoping to get a couple more controlled observations completed before the end of term, I hope that PLI will oblige in this respect. Further aspects of data collection that we are considering, is to ask the boys after they have had the laptops taken away and given to other boys what the effect of not having the netbooks has been to their learning. This might be an interesting approach.
We are also considering the software applications that might need to be installed, there is some thought that perhaps we should be installing Google Chrome and giving this a try. This would avoid the need for certain software licences. This would be an interesting experiment. Perhaps we could do this with the new cohort of boys to get the netbooks in January.
