Title: Netbook
Performer(s):
Maureen Stillman
Odyssey Research
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Cluster: SNAIR
Contact Information:
Phone: 607-227-2020
Fax: 607-227-3026
email: maureen@oracorp.com
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1. Instructional Focus:
Content areas/topics: Not specified; flexible.
Process skills: Not specified.
2. Target Population: K-12 and adult continuing education and training.
3. Summary Description: Netbook is an intelligent notebook, complete with the following features:
- A customizable graphical user interface grounded in an underlying theory of education and communication.
- Connectivity and data sharing with local and networked multimedia resources, including CD-ROMs, WWW, and others.
- Flexible indexing, organization, and retrieval of knowledge resources
- An "audit trail" to document and reconstruct the collaborative process.
- Configurable tools for knowledge access, composition, annotation, and distribution among collaborators.
- Linking in Netbook with student portfolios.
- Student use of multiple representations (movies, text, graphics, statistics) to express ideas.
There will be access to NSF History of America digital library project via participation of Cornell University as a subcontractor.
4. Training and Staff Development:
- Teacher prerequisite skills/knowledge needed: None specified.
- Student prerequisite skills needed: None specified.
- Training needed/provided: None specified.
- Technical support needed/provided: None specified.
5. Technological/Resources Needed: None specified.
6. Intended Outcomes:
Students: None specified.
Teachers: None specified.
7. Instructional Time Required: Depends of individual teacher.
8. Role of the Pilot Teacher(s): None specified.
9. Example(s) of the Use of this Product (Scenario): Children use Netbook to facilitate work on projects.
