What is a Chromebook you ask? The easiest way for me to tell you is to share this video.
Chromebooks are amazing little devices. They basically have the internet and nothing else. BUT on the internet you can do EVERYTHING. They switch on right away and boom you are in the internet.
Instead of using Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint you use Google Docs, Slides and Sheets. They are like simple versions of their Microsoft cousins. They have some amazing features like in the help area you can type what you want to do and it actually does it for you a lot of the time. It makes it so much easier. Some of the feedback from our classes has been "wow this is so much easier. I have tried to learn Word and Excel so many times. I didn't get it. Now I can with Google".
The great news is you can also use Microsoft if you have Microsoft 365 which most children at school do. Here is a photo of one of our graduates Jonathon with his son enjoying his Chromebook.
We are running three more Chromebook trials at Whanganui in September. If you have school aged children who live in Whanganui and don't have technology at home go and see one of these schools: Castlecliff School at Polson Street, Whanganui OR Keith Street School at Keith Street (In Town) Whanganui OR TKKM o Atihaunui a Paparangi (Putiki opposite the church) to register.
