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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For older students, do not buy a chrome book. Buy a cheap laptop with webcam. If you can afford it, buy one with touch screen capability. It will be well worth the investment. Chrome books do not work with many lockdown browsers for testing. We invested in a surface pro last spring and it was the best decision. Our daughter was able to annotate PDFs, share and write on a whiteboard, and has a great webcam and microphone. I also recommend a second monitor for Zoom classes. I know this is all expensive. I am a high school teacher and I purchased over $2000 of technology including a Wacom tablet to make my classes easier to deliver. Zoom is so much easier to navigate when you can put the control portion on the laptop and teacher's screen on main monitor. Obviously not everyone can afford this (including me!) but I want this whole DL thing to go as well as possible. I have been prepping for weeks and it is not going to be close to a face to face class but I will do my absolute best. I do wonder about teachers who just think they will 'wing it' or are not preparing now. I guess those teachers are the reason we have such a bad reputation right now. Some of us believe we are essential workers and that means working more hours than usual. It also means little sleep as we also try to home school our own children. And, yes, it drives me CRAZY when my kid's teachers just call it in. I am on the lower pay scale but I never got into teaching for money. [/quote] You're an awesome teacher.[/quote]
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