Hill City High School 1:1 Tablet Computing

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Hill City High School 11 Tablet Computing
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Hill City High School

• 185 High School Students
• 25 High School Staff
• Smartboard and projector in each classroom

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Timeline of the 11 program (part 1 of 2)

• August 2005 informal discussion of 11
• November 2005 Buena Vista 11 Conf
• January 2006 - Discussion item with school board
• February 2006 Gateway 11 Conf
• March 2006 Board approved Classroom Connections
  application pursuit
• April 2006 Community and Staff forums
• April 2006 Application submitted
• May 2006 HCHS awarded

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Timeline of the 11 program (part 2 of 2)

• June 2006 Tablet PC computers arrive at HCHS
• July 2006 Teacher training
• August 2006 Teacher training
• Last week of August 2006 Student Deployment
• September 5, 2006 School Starts

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Tablets versus Laptop Computers

• We felt tablet computers were a much more
  intuitive tool for our students
• The cost difference was justifiable

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District Budget Impact

• 108,000 from capital outlay for three years
• Lease vs. buy
• 36,000 back from the state
• We have built the laptop program in to five year
• capital outlay plan

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District Monthly Technology Committee Meetings

• We have monthly technology meetings that include
  a representative from each building as well as
  all of the administrators, board members and our
  tech support people.

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Community Support

• School Board Support
• Public Community Meetings
• EDC Support

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Expectations

• How did we think the 11 project would impact
  Hill City High School?
• Teachers
• Students

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District Impact

• How we thought the 11 project would impact the
  Hill City School District (K-12)
• All teachers (K-12) have a laptop
• We have 10 Smartboards throughout the district
• We have given tech integration sessions
  throughout the year
• We will offer tech classes this summer

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Polices and Forms

• Policies and Forms for students and parents

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Student Email

• Student email use
• Beginning of school year
• Today

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Discipline

• How has the district dealt with discipline for
  tablet violations?
• Student Restriction Active Directory Groups
• Fines
• Parent involvement

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Summer Teacher Preparation

• DSU Onsite Sessions
• Onsite DSU Sessions
• Hill City preschool inservice

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Summer Technical Preparation

• DDNIT at DSU
• HCHS Server configuration
• HCHS Wireless configuration
• Tablet computer imaging
• DAS Storage Device

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Deployment

• The week before school
• Student assembly for each class
• Signed student use agreements
• Distributed tablet computers

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HCHS Staff Preparation

• Staff train the trainer session
• Three ours of student training by teachers first
  day of school

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HCHS Staff Sessions

• Before school every Friday the first semester of
  school
• Smarboards
• SychronEyes
• Student 2006
• Staff presentations

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Assumed Student Abilities

• We assumed the students knew computers
• The students were not as proficient as we assumed
  on core computing skills (File Management, Office
  Applications, quality web queries,)

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Routine Computer Inspections

• At the end of each quarter all student tablet
  computers were turned in for damage inspection
  and routine maintenance

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Questions?