Janet Robles is the winner! Congratulations Janet, your poem was selected at random from the 79 entries received this last week! Using Random.org‘s true random number generator, Janet’s poem was the 20th response to the original contest entry, and thus the winner of a brand new Lenovo ThinkCentre m90z. Janet’s poem is a modified diamante, with 5 lines rather than the traditional 7, and it’s a nice little poem about...

The special day has finally arrived! Today, April 25th, marks the start of my giveaway contest for a brand new Lenovo m90z ThinkCentre desktop computer. It’s big, it’s shiny, and if you’re the lucky winner you’ll be able to smudge the screen to your hearts’ desire because this thing has touch input! At 23 inches, and a full multi-touch experience, this computer would be great in an elementary classroom as a...

I try to reserve Fridays for more thoughtful and reflective posts, something to mull around in my head to keep the brain from going to mush over the weekend (it rarely works). However, on the occasional Friday I also love to give away FREE brand new computers! Alright, so I’ve never actually given away any computers before, but I will be soon! Lenovo, makers of the popular ThinkPad laptops, recently teamed up with with a promotional...

Back in February I was sent a Lenovo ThinkCentre m90z demo unit with the hopes that I would put it through it’s paces to see how effective it could be in the classroom. I’ve created a few short videos depicting how well it handled both Tux Paint and Google Earth, but over the weekend I decided to put it up against the biggest educational tool in a teacher’s arsenal; the web. To be fair, I only tested a handful of websites,...

Earlier this month I was sent a demo unit of a Lenovo ThinkCentre m90z touch screen computer with Windows 7, in hopes that I would put it through it’s paces in an educational setting. It’s a pretty interesting machine, given it’s large size (23 inches, ye-haa!), and the fact that you can touch it to interact with the software and programs on the computer. Thus far my feelings have been mixed. The touch has been very...

Awhile ago I was contacted by one of those “influencer” networks that have been slowly creeping into the blogosphere after years of supplying mainstream media types with fancy gadgets and demo units to show off and explore with the public consumer in mind. So in the interest of full disclosure, I happily received a brand new Lenovo ThinkCentre m90z (a big fancy title for one of those nice all in one desktop computers, with a...