{"id":289,"date":"2013-09-13T15:07:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/?p=289"},"modified":"2013-09-13T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:15:27","slug":"beneath-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2013\/09\/13\/beneath-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williston is up and running on our one-to-one tablet computers\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/blog\/williston-northampton-school-to-issue-portable-microsoft-computers-to-every-student-and-teacher-in-september\/\">the Surface Pro<\/a>\u2014and the results are coming in. Sure there will be some glitches along the way, but seeing students and faculty with the same device and already hearing about the great applications for teachers is music to my ears. <a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2013\/09\/Surface-Pro5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-299\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2013\/09\/Surface-Pro5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not your father\u2019s laptop\u2014and it&#8217;s certainly not an old operating system. Here\u2019s an example:\u00a0 Remember all of those long note taking lectures in college where one painstakingly filled in notebooks, only to\u00a0return at the end of the term\u00a0to try and make sense of the long forgotten context?\u00a0 The school-wide\u00a0application OneNote syncs the teachers power point to the students&#8217; notes:\u00a0a student&#8217;s notes will\u00a0link directly back\u00a0to the teacher\u2019s slides. Donnie McKillop is employing this practice in his ninth grade World Civilization classes. <a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/technology-in-my-classroom\/\">Josh Seamon<\/a> has also been using OneNote to project lessons, collect homework assignments, and share his own notes. Thanks to both of them for sharing their innovative classroom work!<\/p>\n<p>As the year progress, I look forward to hearing about, and then sharing here, how more teachers at Williston are using the Surface Pros and incorporating all of the new technology into their classes. It&#8217;s a brave new world, and I can&#8217;t wait for us all to explore it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williston is up and running on our one-to-one tablet computers\u2014the Surface Pro\u2014and the results are coming in. Sure there will be some glitches along the way, but seeing students and faculty with the same device and already hearing about the great applications for teachers is music to my ears. This is not your father\u2019s laptop\u2014and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2013\/09\/13\/beneath-the-surface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beneath the Surface<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[67,68,66,69],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-at-work","category-life-on-campus","tag-donnie-mckillop","tag-josh-seamon","tag-surface-pro","tag-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}