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.
We deployed all apple equipment and have inly one small lab for project lead
the way with windows boxes in it. I have 380 student laptops in one building
and about 24 teacher laptops in that building as well. We did the 1:1 with our
7-12 building. My elem is all apple too, 3 labs and 25 or so
We are in our second year of a 1:1 deployment in grades 9-12. All 1:1
student laptops are Apple, as are our main servers. Teachers in grades PK-3
and 9-12 all have Apple laptops, as do special-ed staff, counselor, study
hall supervisor, and ELL/At-Risk teacher. Grades 4-8 are all Windows, and
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
George,
Are you really meeting at 10:30 pm on Wed? I realize that it would be
after the substate game, but I just wanted to make sure I was reading the
time correctly.
Dan,
Our current Superintendent has been through 2 1:1 programs and both were
polar opposites. He echos what everyone would
Thanks Lance. The meeting is at 10 am, Wednesday morning, pre-play-off
From: georgectut...@hotmail.com
To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us
Subject: RE: [info-tech] 1:1 Question
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:51:46 -0500
Dan,
Pocahontas Area is doing a 1:1 with H-P Netbooks. We are in the
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
