In the Febraruary/March edition of the Journal   (Technological Horizons in Education), you will find LPS prominently chronicled with our friends from California; Saugus Union School District.  The article, written by Jennifer Demski, began as a highlight of the use of Open Source Linux operating systems on netbooks.  Our friend and colleague, Jim Klein, is the Director of Technology and leads a development of Linux kernel operating systems for netbooks.  Our team interacts extensively with Jim's team and the result of this collaboration is a netbook that we acquire for under $300, that lasts for four years or more, and runs just about everything on the web you can access with a computer.  But what was most gratifying about the article was how the instruction out-shone the technology.

In both Saugus and LPS, the use of netbooks for writing has been an emphasis.  This can mislead...