ChromeBook school in Dunedin area

[Chris Nelson]

A school I am involved with is all Microsoft and are investigating purchasing ChromeBooks. Is there anyone here that knows of a Dunedin area school that users them well and wouldn't mind a couple of teachers coming along and seeing how they are used best for education and student learning?

[Julian Davison]

What level of school?

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Chris Nelson <taier...@gmail.com> wrote:

A school I am involved with is all Microsoft and are investigating purchasing ChromeBooks. Is there anyone here that knows of a Dunedin area school that users them well and wouldn't mind a couple of teachers coming along and seeing how they are used best for education and student learning?

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[Gerard MacManus]

If all microsoft based, and looking at chromebooks, it would be easier to move to google apps for education if you are looking at those, designed to manage the chromebooks, integrated apps, its just easier.

if wanting to keep microsoft i would suggest that you look at the HP Stream options https://www.noelleeming.co.nz/shop/computers-tablets/laptops/laptops/hp-y8h67pa-stream-11-blue-notebook/prod149027.html 

Gerard

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Julian Davison <jul...@davison.org.nz> wrote:

What level of school?

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Chris Nelson <taier...@gmail.com> wrote:

A school I am involved with is all Microsoft and are investigating purchasing ChromeBooks. Is there anyone here that knows of a Dunedin area school that users them well and wouldn't mind a couple of teachers coming along and seeing how they are used best for education and student learning?

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[Chris Nelson]

Years 1 to 8

[Dave Young]

Try Fairfield School.  They use them up to Yr8.  Give the principal a ring.

[Chris Nelson]

Thanks Dave.

[Landyn Frisby]

Would not recommend HP Streams. They lack any sort of manageability using home editions of windows and really do have poor specs for the software which is only marginally optimised. They can run out of space just downloading updates!

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 10:40:02 AM UTC+13, Gerard MacManus wrote:

If all microsoft based, and looking at chromebooks, it would be easier to move to google apps for education if you are looking at those, designed to manage the chromebooks, integrated apps, its just easier.

if wanting to keep microsoft i would suggest that you look at the HP Stream options https://www.noelleeming.co.nz/shop/computers-tablets/laptops/laptops/hp-y8h67pa-stream-11-blue-notebook/prod149027.html 

Gerard

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Julian Davison <jul...@davison.org.nz> wrote:

What level of school?

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Chris Nelson <taier...@gmail.com> wrote:

A school I am involved with is all Microsoft and are investigating purchasing ChromeBooks. Is there anyone here that knows of a Dunedin area school that users them well and wouldn't mind a couple of teachers coming along and seeing how they are used best for education and student learning?

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[J B]

Work with a vendor like Noel Leeming to get access to the Stream2/Pros which come with double the RAM and double the storage for comparable or less cost.  Better touchpad and Windows 10 Pro Education.

 

Also you can use the kivuto system to get free Windows 10 EDU for each student http://onthehub.com/search/k-12/ This means any device a student brings in that can support Windows 10 can have Windows 10.

Apparently you can also provide a custom base image. 

 

We now join ours to the Office 365 InTune giving it limited manageability and a single signon experience through some apps with 365 credentials it also means a lost password is not a locked out device.

 

With WIMBoot support you can also recover 2-6GB of space from a Windows 10 system https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus/2015/09/16/windows-10-reducing-the-disk-footprint/

 

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: Landyn Frisby
Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2017 10:07 AM
To: Techies for schools
Subject: Re: [techies-for-schools] ChromeBook school in Dunedin area

 

Would not recommend HP Streams. They lack any sort of manageability using home editions of windows and really do have poor specs for the software which is only marginally optimised. They can run out of space just downloading updates!

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 10:40:02 AM UTC+13, Gerard MacManus wrote:

If all microsoft based, and looking at chromebooks, it would be easier to move to google apps for education if you are looking at those, designed to manage the chromebooks, integrated apps, its just easier.

 

if wanting to keep microsoft i would suggest that you look at the HP Stream options https://www.noelleeming.co.nz/shop/computers-tablets/laptops/laptops/hp-y8h67pa-stream-11-blue-notebook/prod149027.html 

 

Gerard

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Julian Davison <jul...@davison.org.nz> wrote:

What level of school?

 

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Chris Nelson <taier...@gmail.com> wrote:

A school I am involved with is all Microsoft and are investigating purchasing ChromeBooks. Is there anyone here that knows of a Dunedin area school that users them well and wouldn't mind a couple of teachers coming along and seeing how they are used best for education and student learning?

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[Sam McNeill]

An interesting platform I just found from NeverWare that basically creates a cloud based OS for O365 integration:

https://www.neverware.com/office365#office365title

From the website:

CloudReady: Office 365 Education Edition is a browser-based OS that transforms your hardware into secure, easily manageable machines featuring out-of-the-box integrations with Microsoft OneDrive and online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. 

This could be an interesting way to recycle older machines and get "chrome like" speed/experience.on the O365 platform on older / cheaper machines. I am downloading the VM image now to give it a trial:

https://t.co/egzdLDgXY0

Cheers

Sam

[Colin Hogg]

Hi Chris,

Try Robyn @ St Clair. 

Also as Sam suggests the Neverware conversion of older hardware to Chromebooks also works well, I have come across quite a number of schools reusing older hardware saving money this way. 

Cheers

Colin 

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 10:22:13 AM UTC+13, Chris Nelson wrote:

[Nick Steenson]

I played around with CloudReady which worked nicely on our older netbooks, definitely breathed some life into what was useless!

In case it's important to you CloudReady can also be managed with chrome management console, but I have no experience with that, I've only got proper chromebooks enrolled there.

Nick

Edit: I've just realised it's the same thing. Whoops. My statement still stands.

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[Landyn Frisby]

We use cloudready on old white macbooks. Works really well. Have them enterprise enrolled as well. 

No issues whatsoever!

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