The 1:1 learning pilot will begin the week of March 9, 2009 at Brown Middle with Ms. Efros's 8th grade science students.  These past few months NPS? has worked with Dell representatives to do the following tasks:

1.  Decide upon use of the netbooks (Dell mini-notes) with a cart of 30 for  the class. Two sizes (9 inch and 12 inch) will be available for the students. Configuration of netbooksdone by GreenPages.

2.  Partner with Stoneware to set up a "cloud" computing environment where students will use to access files and applications.

3.  Research collaboration with Solutions for Learning to set up protocols for assessing the efficacy of using netbooks to promote deeper understanding of the astronomy unit.