Students use Typing Pal to practice their word processing.

Research via Wikipedia and other sites. Wikipedia = scary? Far safer than a random Google search.

Students create stick figure animations with Stykz (cross-platform animation tool)

We're not quite there yet, but we are moving to netbooks next year. Our Spanish classes which r using webcams on desktops skype w/ students in Colombia & Peru

Students create electronic diagrams of their spaghetti/marshmallow/tape structure that is designed to protect an egg during an earthquake using Google Sketch Up

We use them for research, but also for creating things on glogster, blabberize, xtranormal, voice thread, and other 2.0 recources.

We use One Note to store notes, diagrams, pictures, etc... Students love it because it automatically saves and it enables them to do more than a normal notebook

We're using ClassmatePC Convertible netbooks for our students; this allows touch and stylus input for drawing and marking text.

Going paperless. Teachers save files on their websites or file server. Students can open files, work with, save, submit them, etc. One favorite tool: Etherpad

We just used our laptops for researching civil rights activists in anticipation of creating videos and blogs.

We use them with edmodo.com as an assignment notebook platform.

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Teachers have students create a google doc that is shared with the teacher and the parents - this is where they complete class work and writing drafts.

my yr 5 class have 1 per 2 so we use them for research, web 2.0 such as xtranormal, animoto, math games, spelling city, blogging, writing etc

Podcast reflections allow students to be more expressive than written reflections. Self-assessment increases level of attainment.

How DON"T we use them in the classroom, LOL. Lots of Web 2.0 and cloud computing kinds of things. Also the usual word processing, researching, and website usage