I have been a PC user for my entire ‘computerlife’.  I did have one go with a MAC as I almost inherited one as a leased teacher laptop a few years ago, however breathed a sigh of relief as a new PC arrived in the school and was handed to me!!

I have felt sorry for Maheno staff all year as their PC facilitator arrives and needs to ‘play’ to explore the software (or hardware) first, or as they are sent links to download free software they find that many of them are for PC – so I suppose that this is a bit of a public apology for them.  I will say that I do feel we have continued to be fruitful on my visits and that we have continued to move forward.  Thanks to their wonderful junior teacher Anne who leads this and has become a real MAC convert.

I must say that I had a wonderful couple of sessions with kids and teachers in Kurow the other day at Waitaki Valley.  We were looking to explore the programme ‘Garageband’  and achieved so much though ‘discovery learning’.  It is wonderful how intuitive children are and how creative they can also be when they are given quite wide parameters.  Anyway – I think that I have overcome my own personal MAC stigma (Phew!) and look forward to future MAC experiences!!

I still do enjoy this little South Park clip of PC vs MAC.  If you know ANYTHING about MACs and PCs – then you have to watch this!