Welcome to the NOVA5000 Australian Trials Blog
The NOVA5000 is a completely new concept in digital learning for students. It combines the simplicity and economy of a hand held computer with many of the advanced features of a laptop. This blog is a place where students and teachers can share their first experiences with using the NOVA5000.
October 15th, 2006 at 2:08 am
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November 2nd, 2006 at 8:57 pm
We have now had the NOVAs in our classroom for just over a week. I have NOVA monitors.
(Jake took it upon himself to fix the daylight saving time on each of the NOVAS on Monday morning…he’ll do!)
Jake is not usually so interested when asked to sit at a PC. The idea that he could do it at his table and still interact with his peers might have been a plus for him! Our digital natives usually like to work in the vicinity of someone else, at least!
We have had a problem connecting them to our Novell network (apparently there are some tech-heads who are on the case!)
In the meantime, we put 1 different sticker on each one to identify them. This week, the kids have saved their work locally but tomorrow they will save to a USB stick until my Novell problem is sorted.
Jake has also taken it upon himself to put them back on the charger each afternoon (without being asked). Surprising but inspiring!
My class are studying weather so each morning another little group attach the temperature probe, air pressure and light meters and off they go to measure the data. We are comparing the digital data with our Australia Geographic Weather Station which is set up outside the room! The data is written on the whiteboard for all to see. All students are recording the data and today we all took it in turns to take a NOVA outside and record the data on MultiLab and save to the NOVA. We will copy over to our network at the end of each week until our network problem is solved! I demonstrated to 5 children in the neighbouring class how to use Multi Lab and they spent 10 mins recording data. Then they had to come in and demonstrate to someone, and the cycle repeated itself until all students had used Multi Lab!
I should have taken a photo of one of my Stage 3 boys who sat down on the concrete outside the Computer Lab and watched as a South westerly front approached. The air pressure dropped as the wind picked up. He was fascinated!
November 26th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Since we’ve had these Novas,it has been so easy to do things right from your desk instead of going to the computer lab. These things are so great that I sometimes feel like I’m using a mini smartboard. The best part about these incredible Novas is that you can even connect it to our school server and save anything you do straight to your folder. You could do eduweb and connect them to the Internet.(Which will be fantastic.)