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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Highlights from David Hostetler Pre-conference Presentation at NCaect…
Free Speech:
Although students do not check all first amendment rights at the school door, students do not have the same rights as adults in public shperes. We need to educate students and parents to understand that the school has the right to discipline students for off campus communication [...]
Apple 1:1 (Southeast) Leadership Summit - Assessing Infrastructure
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008George Vensel with Manatee County Schools in Florida says people are infrastructure too.
Make sure you have bandwidth first.
They use Websense from IBM to handle the at home Internet filtering for CIPA compliance. They charge a $35 maintenance fee to parents per child that takes laptop home. These funds pay for repair costs. If a child loses [...]
Apple 1:1 (Southeast) Leadership Summit - Redefining Curriculum & Pedagogy
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Patricia MacNeill, assistant superintendent, Greene County Schools, discussed “Leading a Culture of Change”.
Steady Focused Successful School Reform By Design, Not Chance.
Greene County decided to focusing on changing their culture as it pertains to how students, teachers, and parents think about post-secondary education.
We had a core group of individuals that understood the vision and helped package [...]
Apple 1:1 (Southeast) Leadership Summit - Community Engagement
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Phillip Jackson, Lauderdale County Schools’ superintendent, discussed community engagement. Lauderdale, TN has an agriculture based economy. Jackson realized they must adapt to information age.One-to-One has resulted in the drop out rate declining from 15% to 8.7% in past 2 years. Lauderdale started by providing all their teachers with a laptop first.
We are a very rural and [...]
Apple 1:1 (Southeast) Leadership Summit - Financing
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Doug Pindell, a CPO for Howard County Schools in Maryland, discussed 1:1 financing…
We need to think beyond Dewey.
You have to include the financial team. In working together through the process- financing rather than purchasing was determined to be the best method to maximize funding while creating a consistent refresh plan. Financing allows you to attach a [...]
Apple 1:1 (Southeast) Leadership Summit Keynote
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Dr. Tim Tyson provided an inspiring keynote presentation. He has started a new site at www.drtimtyson.com and is now working to help other school districts “make learning irresistible”.
Listen to this post
Stanly County Schools One-to-One
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Stanly County Schools has started a one-to-one at Albermarle Elementary in 4th and 5th grades. Albermarle middle school will add seventh and eighth graders next year. Albermarle High School will follow with a true 1:1 where all 8-12th graders will take them home.
Like Greene County and Moorseville City Stanly County decided to go with Apple [...]
Moorseville City Schools One-to-One
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007I learned yesterday that Moorseville City Schools is rolling out MacBooks to all 3-12th graders by August 2009. All teaching staff and administration will have them by February 2008. All laptop carts will be transitioned to Moorseville’s K-2 schools. The superintendent in Moorseville is the former superintendent from Henricho County Virginia.
I also learned that Henricho, [...]
Benefits of Our LCD Projector Initiative
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007This paper summarizes our LCD Projector Initiative… (Note: We have since added Interwrite Schoolpads in roughly 50% of our classrooms.)
Projecting A Brighter Future
Multimedia Projectors, Visual Literacy and the Information Processing Model
June 24, 2006
Abstract
This paper outlines the potential for gains in student achievement when a teacher, armed with a multimedia projector, discovers a deeper understanding of [...]
nComputing Xtenda X300 Case Study
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Recently, nComputing published a series of case studies showcasing the value of their products. One case study chronicaled the use of the Xtenda X300 cards in North Carolina (and McDowell County in particular). Since then, I have fielded several questions regarding cost savings for our county. The X300 cards allowed us to be able to eliminate approximately 900 legacy [...]
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