i need a little feedback for a school project

I am an educational technology grad student at NJCU. As part of one of my courses I have been asked to get recommendations from classroom teachers, for the hardware and/or software that has been most beneficial, or that they most want to acquire.

My hypothetical class has 20 (one for each student) networked PCs with Windows Vista and the full Microsoft Office Suite (definitely not my personal choice).I have been told that I have $10,000 to purchase hardware and or software for the class (but no new computers).

I am not asking you to budget the 10k, I have a pretty good idea of how and where I would spend most of it. It's more about if there is any thing that really excites you please leave a not.

Any other words of wisdom (or caution) about integrating technology in 1-5 grades would also be appreciated.

If you are reading this post after 3/26 there is no need to respond, as I will be handing my assignment in before 3/29 thanks a lot

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Permalink Reply by Robin Sheridan on March 23, 2010 at 11:11am

the ability to write on an interactive board, without standing in front of it does seem like really good idea. thanks for the suggestion.

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Permalink Reply by Larry Emmons on March 23, 2010 at 3:33pm

Before buying into a technology (hardware, software, service) I always ask the question - How will it better the learning experience for the student and how is it planned to be implemented into the cirrriculum?

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Permalink Reply by Robin Sheridan on March 23, 2010 at 5:10pm

good point, and if given a choice on how to spend the money i would probably want to spend a good chunk of it on getting my students away from their computers, out of the classroom, and engaged in real world activities in the real world. (but that is not what this exercise called for.