We're entering our 5th year, with the second roll-out of new laptops
this fall. We went with Lenovo laptops, the first go-around was with Gateway
tablets. I wish I could say that the time just flew by, but there were too
many lumps along the way. Listening to George, he's on the right track
again. Keeping it simple, if possible, but we know tech isn't, nor is the
network a simple VCR.
If price is no object, consider the Macs. When they can control the
both software/hardware solution, one would hope there would be less bugs in
the system. When we started the 1:1, the district was 50-50 in the labs with
the servers tilting towards Windows. Price, my experience and the
superintendent's leanings had us go with PCs. The highschool teachers had pc
desktops, so I didn't want to throw their experience under the bus.
Besides platform, daily applications, the next biggie is the
network. Biggest complaint is, "I can't get on the network." Teachers are
less likely to try new things if a few student can't join the group.
Sometimes that's self inflicted, but it still hinders teachers. They are
less likely to try it again. Dynno, NetOps, Schoolvue are great programs,
but when it's only working 99% of the time with 99% of the students, you
will hear about it.
Ubiquitous 1:1, my true feelings will be share in person, since this
listserv can be Googled and I need my job. So see ya Thursday if not before.
Murray Gafkjen
Clay Central Everly
Everly, IA
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From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us]
On Behalf Of Dan Davis
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 6:17 PM
To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us
Subject: [info-tech] 1:1 Question
I am asking other school districts who have deployed an effective 1:1
computing environment, are you running Windows devices, Macintosh devices, a
mixture of both ??? How many devices are deployed? We are looking into this
type of deployment and would like some insight from other districts.
Thank you in advance.
Dan Davis
Spirit Lake Comm School
Network Administrator
dda...@spirit-lake.k12.ia.us
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