George, I will plan on attending this meeting, thank you for the invite. Dan
Dan Davis Network Administrator Spirit Lake School District (712)336-3707 ext 1300 dda...@spirit-lake.k12.ia.us From: George Tuttle [mailto:georgectut...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 8:52 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] 1:1 Question Dan, Pocahontas Area is doing a 1:1 with H-P Netbooks. We are in the middle planning stages. I just recently stepped into the tech position after being retired for two and a half years. I am a bit more cautious in a 1:1 deployment than my predecessor, having been on the bleeding edge many times over the years. The Netbooks have been purchased and are on hand and the original issue date was Oct 8. However, a combination of events has pushed that back to a date to be determined. On Wednesday morning, our administration and myself will be meeting with Scott, Jason, and several other people to establish a timeline for deployment, computer image development, Dyknow training, and more importantly, a re-evaluation of our network system. Google apps is slated to become the backbone of our 1:1 system. Dyknow will allow classroom level application and control in the school environment. We plan to have local network storage of some type for the students but many of the student files will be stored in Google Apps. Google also has a piece called Gears that allows a student to use Google Docs offline. We are considering dropping our Exchange Server (a little tiny tear, and I mean tiny) and having the AEA host our faculty and for the first time, student email. The ultimate goal is to simplify our network operations as much as possible. For the really high end tech stuff, we employ Heartland Technology Services out of Ames on an hourly basis. We are in the process of hiring a new tech coordinator and I have said that it should be someone from with an education background, someone that will do the training and provide the moral support to make 1:1 a success. So making their life easier by simplifying our network is a necessary part of that plan. We are meeting at 10 PM on Wed in our Central Office east of the elementary building. Since you are apparently considering 1:1, you're more than welcome to join us and gain the insight you mentioned first hand. Just let me know if you plan to attend. George > From: dda...@spirit-lake.k12.ia.us > To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:16:37 -0500 > 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 > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server > aea8.k12.ia.us] > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Archived messages from this list can be found at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ > ---------------------------------------------------------
