Hershey Sutherland OnetoOne Computing

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Hershey SutherlandOne-to-One Computing

• ESU 15 Fall Professional Development Day
• September 25, 2006
• Jane Davis Hershey
• John Molzahn - Sutherland

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Project LEAP

• Laptops Enhancing Academic Performance

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Topics Covered

• Planning
• Technology Committee
• Hardware
• Software
• SIS/Learning Management System
• Infrastructure
• Tech Support
• Training Staff Development
• Policy/Procedure
• Funding/Budgeting

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Planning

• December 2005 Surveyed students and teachers
• February 2006 Went to school board with survey
  results and presentation asking for permission to
  come up with a plan for 11 computing
• March 2006 Presented at school board meeting on
  progress of technology committee.
• April 2006 Students and staff presented at
  school board meeting how they would use
  technology if they had access to it.
• May 2006 Board approved plan. Ordered
  hardware/software.
• June July 2006 Made images, offered staff
  development. Handed out teacher laptops.
• August 2006 Hired new technology staff position
  and handed out laptops to students during the
  first week of school.

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Technology Committee

• Student
• Staff
• Community
• Teachers
• Administration
• Met at least once a month, they listened to
  vendor proposals and helped to created the
  software list. Gave input on policy.

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Goals

• Learning Goal
• GOAL Infuse 21st Century learning skills into
  current curriculum
• Technology Goal
• GOAL Transforming current curriculum into
  digital curriculum and 11 learning in Language
  Arts, Social Studies, Science and Math.
• Teachers
• Teachers need training on how to use technology
  to make their teaching easier, more productive
  and more effective.
• need ease of use
• Teachers need to know that the data is secure.
  (login password)
• Teachers need access 24/7
• Students
• Students need portability, ease of use, and a
  task to use them for.
• Students need to be able to save data to a secure
  storage location.
• Students need security i.e. login, virus
  protection
• Students need access 24/7

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Our proposal

• Provide laptops to 7-12 staff members
• Provide laptops to Board of Education
• Provide laptops to 9-12 students
• Provide a 24 station laptop cart for 7-8 grade
  use.
• Provide a 24 station laptop cart for grades K-6.
• Free up one computer lab so that it can be an
  extra classroom

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Partners

• ESU 16 Software training
• ESU 10 Hardware support Wireless
  infrastructure.
• GovConnections Hardware supplier
• Lenovo Hardware replacement/repair
• MyElearning of Nebraska

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Hardware

• Laptops
• All laptops will need 3 year accidental coverage,
  which covers them for everything except theft or
  fire.
• Digital cameras and camcorders will be available
  in the library for checkout to staff.
• Teachers will need docking stations, mouse and
  keyboard.

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Hardware

• Durable
• We purchased extra warranties that provided for
  accidental drops and electrical surges.
• Parents' coverage
• Homeowners covers because it is leased and the
  students have it 24/7
• Parents can purchase a rider called a "Personal
  Article Policy" - no deductible
• We found that 3 years was more cost effective
  because of the price of the warranty for the 4th
  year
• Don't skimp on RAM or Hard drive space.
• Purchased extra batteries and chargers
• Purchased docking stations w/keyboard mouse for
  each teacher

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Software - Choose software that will emphasize
student learning

• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements
• Microsoft Office 2003 - Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  and Publisher
• Microsoft Student 2006
• Sonic - Record Now
• Vital Source
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Sophos Anti-Virus
• Windows Media Player
• Windows Movie Maker
• Winnebago Spectrum Client
• Inspiration 8.0
• South-Western keyboarding software

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Student Information System

• PowerSchool this was already in place and all
  stakeholders were already comfortable using it.
• Gradebook
• Parent Access
• Teacher Access
• Student Access

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Learning Management System Solution

• Angel/MyElearning
• ANGEL is a place where the teachers can tie all
  the elements of their classes together. ANGEL is
  a virtual locker one area where teachers and
  students can keep all their materials together,
  helping them become more efficient and better
  organized.
• Once teachers have courses in ANGEL they can
  easily modify and reuse the courses in
  consecutive years.

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Infrastructure

• We had three companies come and give bids.
• Contracted with ESU 10 to choose, install and
  supply tech support with Cisco System.
• We felt this one area that had to work well.
• We both wanted security and ease of use.
• We wanted it to work seamlessly with our LAN.

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Cisco- Secured Wireless Solution

• single broadcast SSID over all 802.11 bands
  (a/b/g) using WPA encryption with RADIUS
  authentication
• Our wireless infrastructure is comprised of Cisco
  access points
• HP Procurve Power over Ethernet switches
• CAT6 cabling to all access point locations
• Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Express device to
  manage current and future access points.
• It will also detect rogue devices, dynamically
  manage power levels to adjust for loss or
  addition of an access point, and automatically
  make changes to the configurations of any and/or
  all access points on demand or on a scheduled
  basis.

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Access anywhere in the building and allows users
to move about the building without dropping
connection.

• We can't emphasize enough that the high level of
  performance that we see on our wireless networks
  is closely linked to the quality of hardware and
  infrastructure we purchased as well as an
  adequate number of access points.
• This kind of performance is simply not possible
  with consumer wireless products, poor quality
  cabling, and sparse numbers of access points.

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Only authenticated users have access to our LAN

• We have setup a domain certificate authority to
  hand out certificates to all domain computers
  automatically
• An Internet Authentication server to handle the
  authentication of users and computers wanting to
  utilize the wireless network
• GPO's to send out the certificate and wireless
  client settings to eliminate the need for
  configuration by administrators or end users.
• This allows network administrators to do nothing
  more than join a laptop to the domain and upon
  restart, any domain user can login to the
  computer with their network account and already
  be attached to the wireless network with access
  to any and all resources.
• In terms of security, WPA encryption is second
  only to the next generation WPA2 encryption,
  which many legacy wireless adapters cannot use.
  All of our new laptops, access points, and
  operating systems are capable of using this which
  will allow us to upgrade to this when we are
  certain that legacy systems are not going to be
  an issue.

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Managed System

• Wireless devices that use any of the 802.11 a, b,
  or g bands can communicate with the wireless
  network provided they are able to do WPA
  encryption with 802.1x (RADIUS) authentication
  (also referred to as WPA-Enterprise or WPA-TKIP).
  
• Since all settings are centralized, changes can
  be made easily at the server and pushed out to
  all clients when they next attach to the network.
  
• You get to control access to your network by
  determining who gets a certificate and forcing
  them to have network credentials.
• Non-domain machines can use your network as long
  as a network administrator installs a certificate
  (30 second process) and gives a valid username
  and password to a network guest

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Offline file synchronization

• You can make network files available offline by
  storing shared files on your computer so they are
  accessible when you are not connected to the
  network.

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More on Offline Files

• When you reconnect to the network, any changes
  that you made to files while working offline are
  updated to the network. This process is called
  synchronization. If you and someone else on the
  network made changes to the same file, you can
  save your version of the file to the network,
  keep the other version, or save both.
• Any shared files or folders on a Microsoft
  network can be made available offline

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Tech Support

• Created a new position to share ½ time between
  both schools to help with hardware/software
  issues.
• Lenovo - 3 year complete care package
• ESU 10 HelpDesk/Odie Tickets

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Training

• Staff
• Students
• Parents
• Administrators
• Board Members

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Staff Development

• ESU 16
• Local teachers/technology coordinators
• Made a list of mandatory/optional training

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Policy/Procedure

• Find out from other schools what works
• Be flexible, realize that things will come up
  that will force you change your policy

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Funding/Budgeting

• Leased with fair market buyout
• Utilize all sources
• REAP
• SPED
• Title IID
• Grants
• Library
• Textbooks

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What would we do differently?
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Q A

• Jane Davis jdavis_at_esu16.org
• John Molzahn jmolzahn_at_esu16.org