The document discusses netbooks that were provided to a school for the 2011-2012 school year, with two carts of 30 netbooks each at different grade levels, but no training was given to teachers on how to use them. It then covers the writer's experience using the netbooks for whole group and station activities with students navigating themselves, and from the teacher perspective, as well as benefits like size, portability and price against drawbacks like booting up times, lack of CD drives, and storage issues. Potential uses are also mentioned.