how to promote the use of computer lab in the classroom

there are many ways that we can do in order to make the use of computer labs is at the maximum. first as a teacher, we should be a good model for the students. what i mean by model here is that teachers themselve should promote the use ofcomputer labs among the pupils. they should make the pupils see that the use of computer labs are also practices among the teachers.
Next, teacher could also plan activities that integrate computers lab. As for example, instead of drawing the ordinary mind map, the teacher can also use Mind manager so that pupils can at least use the computers available. Other than that, they should also asked to find relavant information about certain topics by doing live search in the classroom by using search engine like yahoo, google and Msn. apart from that, the teacher could also use online games in the classroom as one of the activities after the presentation of the input by the teacher. maybe the teacher can use language games in english classroom so that the opportnity to use the computers will be more.