I hate the cold but still love this time of year - food, family and festivities are right around the corner! Yes it is getting close to time to dig out all the Christmas decorations and when your kids come back from break you just might find them sporting a new gadget. Rather than just a new distraction like a cell phone or mp3 player this new gadget has real educational potential - a brand new category of extremely affordable personal computers known as Netbooks. Now I could delve into all the technical goodness of these machines but Doug Johnson a columnist for Education World beat me to the punch plus offers more of a teacher's viewpoint. (Alas I am but only a technology specialist

) So click the following to read Doug's very informative article...
Netbooks and Computing In the Clouds