What a fantastic opportunity to have been handed. And I love that your
designer is a disciple of The Third Teacher. Great stuff there.
One model for 1-1 that is uncommon, but is working for us, is that in which
the students purchase and own their laptops. The school plays no part in
this, aside from basic specifications. We outline our approach in this FAQ,
which may be found here: http://goo.gl/xNax
As for supplemental costs, in our case we re-did our wireless infrastructure
to give us greater density of APs (one per classroom, more in common areas),
and beefed up our security (to allow for posture assessment when someone
joins the network to prevent the introduction of malware). We did not add
more staff to deal with the influx of new computers, but we did create a new
student help desk for students to assist one another.
I would suggest a timeline which includes a pilot project with some earl
adopters this year if possible, in advance of a roll-out to the whole
school. Alternatively, you can roll-out the program over 2-3 years.
We did professional development with faculty for 2-3 summers before rolling
out the program. If you can find the time during the school year, you could
accelerate that. Part of our long period of prof development was a delay of
starting the program due to the economy. I can highly recommend the
Summercore program for professional development.
Feel free to call with any questions, and good luck with your construction
and program.
s
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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Vinnie Vrotny <vvrotny@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I hate to bother you, but I could use your guidance on a project I was
> handed late last week which has a turnaround time of only 1 week at this
> point in time.
>
> We are in the midst of renovating our High School. The architects have a
> very progressive and futuristic vision that they are designing. The lead
> designer is a disciple of "The Third Teacher" and this space is being
> planned as a 21st Century Learning space, with learning studios, flexible
> and adaptable furniture, and media rich presentation, using ENO boards and
> Steelcase Media::scapes throughout the building. Technology is expected and
> assumed to be throughout the building.
>
> At this point in time, we are not a 1:1 school. My project is to develop a
> 1:1 proposal(s) which is to include:
>
> - Concise explanation of proposal
> - Determination of ownership of equipment (school-owned versus individual
> owned) and cost implications
> - Supplemental cost implications (servers, backbone, bandwidth, etc.) to
> support
> - Staffing implications
> - Timeline for implementation
> - Detail of Professional Development for Faculty
> - List of Policies that will need to be created to support a 1:1 program
> - Anything else that I am missing
>
>
> This proposal will be presented to our new Assistant Head of
> School/Academic
> Dean, Upper School Head, and Business Manager. It will then be floated to
> the Head of School, the Board of Trustees, Upper School faculty then to
> parents and students.
>
> Our challenges for this project is that each proposal has to be:
>
> - Saleable to the Upper School faculty
> - Aligned with the design of the new High School space
> - Implementable
>
>
> I know that this project is backwards, and that a proper investigation
> would
> include surveying of students, faculty, parents, etc.
>
> I am asking you if you have any material or information which will be
> helpful in order to help me meet this goal, I truly would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Vinnie
> ------------------------------
> Vinnie Vrotny
> Director of Academic Technology, North Shore Country Day School
> Blog - Multi-Faceted Refractions (vvrotny.org)
> Twitter, Skype, etc. - vvrotny
> 858-876-8690
>
> "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your
> time on this earth"
>
> -Roberto Clemente
>
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