Laptop Buying Guide  In this guide, I will attempt to provide a laptop to fit into 4 major budgets for the active student for high school as well as college.  The elements that I considered were processor, memory, storage, screen size, battery life, and

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As the only Instructional Technology Teacher at Algonquin I get many requests for help.  At this point the requests mostly come to me by email.  I sort through those requests and decide which ones make sense to have the SWAT

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Hello, world! I'm super excited to get this blog up and running. SWAT is constantly expanding, and the time seems ripe for us to establish a public online presence where we can share our work and show others what we're

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Students at Algonquin have many requirements but also have space for some electives.  S.W.A.T. or Students Working to Advance Technology is considered an elective and students receive 2.5 credits for each semester they are enrolled.  Guidance works out the scheduling

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In order for our student tech support team to run effectively it is important to recruit the best students.  I knew that I wanted kids with great interpersonal skills as well as those kids with a strong knowledge base of

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