Monday, February 14, 2011

1:1 Projects

We are coming closer and closer to the end of the year, which means we are starting to plan for the next year. And with that, we are planning our 1:1 program with students laptops. And coming into this with very little knowledge, there are a lot of questions that need answered. So last night I sat down and started thinking of things that need to be covered. So I started looking for answers. As we work more and more with Bytespeed Computers, we both learn more on this topic. And since we are going to be the first school to go 1:1 computers with Bytespeed we both have a lot of things to figure out. But since we are working with Intel now we at least have someone with a little better knowing of all this.
But I still ask myself, is this the best thing for our students or is it just going to look like a big computer lab in our school. Well I don't think it will, I trust that our teachers will use these pieces of equipment to their full ability. We are looking into getting my professional development for our teachers as the year comes to a close. And now that our staff is feeling more secure about using these machines, we will make sure that we are getting whatever we can to our teachers to make this lives easier. I really want to get a program going here that over schools want to come see and I know with the staff we have here, we can, we will make it successful. I want to become the school of Windows and have schools look at us like they do Newell-Fonda and Apple.