K-12 Chromebook deployment questions.

[Bill Long]

We have decided to deploy Chromebooks to our MS/HS Students next year 2014-2015. We have just given all our teachers Chromebooks so that they will have time to get used to them before the students get them next year. I was wondering if you could help me on a few things.

1) When you deployed the Chromebooks to the staff did you require them to meet certain Milestones to prove knowledge of them? Like creating Google Apps documents and sharing? If so how did you do it? My school board is wanting to have the teachers show progress toward learning to integrate them in instruction by the end on 2013-2014 school year.
 

2) Do you give parents/students the option of providing their own Chromebooks instead of using the School purchased Chromebooks?

3) Do you require insurance for teachers to purchase? What about students?

4) Can you give me a link to your AUP for the Chromebooks that I can review?

Thank You SO MUCH!!!

Bill Long
technology Director
Harper ISD

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[Shane Johnson]

Hello Bill - 

While I do not work at a school system, I have 7 years of experience in this industry, so take this all with a grain of salt. :) 


1- I think the milestones is a great idea, and understand the boards concerns. Props to them for implementing safeguards before shelling out the cash for the Chromebooks. Not sure of any other ISD implementing this at this point, but I also haven't searched for this information.

2 - Some schools utilitze BYOD, or hybrid with their CB program, but this seems like it would be a lot more of a hassle in my personal opinion.

3- Many schools utilize insurance policies, but do not require students to purchase it. They have however signed an AUP that in the event of damage,  the unit must be repaired through the school district(s vendor), at their expense. A simple outlay of costs, showing that an LCD replacement costs north of $75-100, would instigate most parents to pay for insurance. Other larger schools "self-insure" the devices, and charge every student a fee at the beginning of the year before handing them a Chromebook. 

4 - Here is a link to two AUP's -  Leyden 212, and St Helena's - Leyden has thousands of units.

http://www.leyden212.org/NEWS/Chromebooks/Chromebook_Procedures_Info.pdf

Let me know if I can help in another way. 

Shane Johnson
VP of Business development
Gophermods Education
www.gophermods.com

[Shane Johnson]

Forgot St Helenas link - 

http://shusd.schoolwires.com/cms/lib6/CA01000647/Centricity/Domain/1/SHUSD%20Chromebook%20Policy%20-%20081413fnl.pdf

On Monday, January 20, 2014 10:16:28 AM UTC-6, Bill Long wrote:

[katefahey]

Hi Bill,

We just deployed to our sophomore class so we have some experience here.  We're a 9-12 HS district in the suburbs of Chicago.

1)  We didn't require them to meet certain milestones with the Chromebooks.  We did, however, set up an in depth training program for our LMS, Haiku.  I created levels and instructional content to help teachers get to each level.  The district provided PD time to learn the content as well as clear expectations of what was expected at beginning of school year, at semester, and at end of year.  We did offer some "lunch and learn" sessions for teachers to become familiar with the Chromebooks.  Fortunately, we began to push the teachers and students to use Chrome last year, so familiarity was already there.  

2)  For now, we have allowed students to bring their own Chromebooks if they would like.  We just put them on our network.  Only a handful of students have done this.  Time will tell if this was a good decision.  My only concern is that since we manage the Chromebooks we hand out with the chrome management console, we might run into trouble later if we want to deploy some of the testing policies (I think there's a safe browser option in the chrome management console).  We wouldn't be able to deploy that to the student purchased machine.  

3)  We did not require insurance.  We linked to a 3rd party vendor option (Worth Group) and a list of the costs to repair the screen, etc., so the parents could decide for themselves.  

4)  Here is a link to our Anywhere, Anytime Teaching & Learning page that has lots of goodies:

http://www.lths.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=721

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Kate

On Monday, January 20, 2014 10:16:28 AM UTC-6, Bill Long wrote:

[George Sorrells]

Bill:  

1) We did not require educational milestones.  We provided loads and loads of Professional Development time.  We offered Two week long sessions the summer before we went live.  We held a monthly 4 hour technology based session.  We also offered weekly sessions after school, and would meet any teacher at any time in their classroom to work with them.  My district followed the principle, that if you are a good teacher and do not use technology in your classroom that is fine, but you will have to demonstrate ability to use Google Apps by performing the administrative functions of your job.  We learned very quickly that even the most technology averse teacher was quickly implementing technology use, because the kids were demanding it.

 

2) We went with an entire BYOD system.  The chromebooks we deployed were for the students that did not already have technology they could bring in.  If you are truly utilizing Google  BYOD is very acceptable, because if it will run on a chromebook, it will almost always work on any device using the chrome browser. 

3) We do not require insurance we do charge for damage.

4) We do not have an AUP for chromebooks.  The AUPs we have is for any internet usage.  The following are the text of our AUP's:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H1gPj7nF3hmpc3rvuTiRFTqDLbHuRfuyvX9ZiDijDY4/edit?usp=sharing     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ADthny5ZI74y4lhbrvTRN_1i7SKG0DcKxu1fR-apNDE/edit?usp=sharing

[Guy Ballard]

We have had our AAL program 4 years. Started off with netbooks and last year went with Chromebooks. Here is a link to our plan written 4 years ago with a ton of resources linked https://sites.google.com/a/d219.org/aal-plan/ 

1. We required every teacher to take a course that we offered in face to face and blended.  When the teachers took the course they received the device we were issued to students that year.  Attached is the course syllabus.

2. We strongly encourage that students buy insurance. We use Worth Group.

3. We do not have a specific AUP for the AAL program.  

One feature of our program that we are especially happy with is the Tech Leaders program. About 20 students in each school maintain a help desk for student needs. Here is a link to their site.  https://sites.google.com/a/d219.org/aal-help-desk/ 

Good Luck with your program. 

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[Nic Finelli]

Bill,

I work with many schools on Chromebook deployment and professional development.  While many do a pilot with teachers before giving them to the students, I have not run into any that required milestones/benchmarks.  However, that being said, I know several districts that have used the teacher/beta testers of Chromebooks to create a Google Site that they collaboratively share their journey and experiences which include lesson plans and best practices.  This may be the route to go so you bring the collaborative sharing nature of Google Apps and Chromebooks and let the board see how collectively your faculty worked to integrate this technology.  

With the managed aspect of Chromebooks, I have heard that some school districts have gone ahead and bought all the devices and then after the Chromebooks were set up to be managed, offered it to parents/guardians to purchase.

Nic

[Shane Johnson]

how did the deployment go? What option did you end up choosing?