1t1+Issues

**Some of the questions that bubbled to the top of the 1 to 1 committee meetings:**

**1. What is our vision and goals?**  **AHS Laptop Program** **2. Will we have day users and loaners?**  **This is on an "add needed" basis, but yes, we do this!** **3. Who will man the help desk?**  **The media assistant/secretary is our main person.** **4. Will we use an LMS or not? If so, which one?**  **We use Moodle.** **5. What do other schools with a 1 to 1 look like?**  **This looks different at every school. However, we visited Watauga High School, Mooresville, Surry County, and Thomasville High School. We called Alabama and North Kansas School District. We tried to speak with anyone and everyone that could give us as much information about how they implemented a 1 to 1.** **6. What device will meet our needs?** ** HP 4420s** **7. We already have issues with electricity in our building, what will we do if they need to be charged at school?** **8. What discipline plan will we have in place when rules aren't followed using the laptops?**  **Seamless with school rules & expectations** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**9. Should we differentiate the technology device? (ex: iPod touch, tablets, laptops)** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**10. Where will the help desk be?** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **The help desk has moved from the old computer lab in the media center to the media assistant's office and now is at the circulation desk in the media center because our IT dept. has moved into the old computer lab. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This does have it's benefits for us!!! ** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**11. How do we sustain such a program????????????** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **We are still pondering this! I feel that we will have to move to a BYOD in order to continue having a 1 to 1.** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**12. Will our infrastructure be enough?** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **We started off REALLY rough with our infrastructure. We are doing 95% better but still have issues every now and again! We are finding that we run out of IP addresses!!!** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**13. Do we install software or go completely cloud based?** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **We have a little of both worlds. It just worked out best for us to have Office 2010 instead of Open Office.** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**14. Do we offer charging stations in certain areas such as the media center?** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> No! ** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**15. Will there be a technology fee, insurance fee, etc.?** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **We have a deductible for insurance which is $50. However, we mulled over this for some time.** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**16. Do we allow students to have admin rights over their device?** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **Yes. This has created some issues with pictures that they use for their wallpaper.** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**17. How do we deploy 1300 laptops in one night?** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **Lots of upfront planning. You will forget some things, it is just that way. We really worked like dogs to try and make it as seamless as possible for everyone!!!** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**18. How do we fit in all of the professional development needed for the faculty? Students? Parents?** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **You will never fit in all of the PD for any one so you prioritize what you feel needs to be done before the deployment. You then continue to try and offer as much as possible. I have had to really think outside of the box to try and mix up how I offered PD to teachers. I am now focusing more on offering a sort of "lunch & learn" for students. They are really the audience that I have found to focus on this year. Our teachers have me come when needed and help them one on one and even teach the class so that they learn with the students!** **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This has really been a change for the teachers based on the fact that many thought I was hired to "fix" their technology, not actually know how to integrate it! ** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**19. How do we know how many students have internet access at home?** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **We surveyed the families and found that we have around 85% of our population with internet access in their homes.** **We also have the fabulous Asheboro Public Library, that wanted to be our after hours access spot as well. They have really worked hard to try and learn how to maneuver through our Moodle so that they could be of help to the students.** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**20. HOW DO WE SURVIVE THIS WITHOUT PULLING OUR HAIR OUT????** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **One day at a time!!!!**
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Purchased a 9 cell battery. Charge at home at night. Well, we continue to try and do this! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> We decided that this would be quite an undertaking, so we decided to go with the same device across the school. **

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Solutions....**

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**On the AHS homepage, I created a few pages that contain our laptop handbook, AUP, parent & student agreement forms. I also placed our vision and goals. Have we seen these morph a little, while sure we have! Some things, such as the goal we set that states, "To develop and support equitable opportunities for student learning through the use of technology as an extension to the classroom", has been tough at times due to discipline issues with students. We do strive to try and continue to educate students on the proper use and care of their laptops but there is an abundance of laptop "mishandlings" by our student population.** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Overall, the teachers are trying very hard to integrate technology into their lessons. We just don't want the laptops to be used, just to be used! There needs to be a purpose and that purpose may not be to use them everyday for every lesson.**

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Check out this video about what happens when you give teachers technology:**

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