“Tech in 20” Mac File Management, Peripheral Setup

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“Tech in 20” Mac Basics

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Tech in 20: How to navigate Adobe Connect

Please watch this video to familiarize yourself with Adobe Connect before you attend the Tech. in 20 live webinar.

 

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We Have a Winner!!!!!

Congratulations to Welina who won our contest to rename our 1:1 laptop project.

Pāhana Kīpaepae – Stone pavement or steps for entering a house, opportunity (project) to utilize these laptops as a stepping stone in order for students to attain more, in terms of their education and gaining a glimpse of the future.

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April News

Mahalo to those who have responded and provided their manaʻo via the PD Feedback Survey.  For those of you who have not completed the survey yet, we would appreciate if you do so, as your manaʻo is important for the development of our PD plan.  Please provide us feedback by clicking here.

MacBook Air laptop rollout – scheduled for April 25th.  Teachers will engage in hands-on/informational sessions including document transfer, printer set up, email overview, and Mac OS 10 training (Lion).  Will you please take two minutes to complete this short survey about software use in the classroom?

April 28th Tech Boot Camp – Registration coming your way soon!  Boot Camp will run from 8:00 am – 2:00 pm.  Sessions offered are based on your feedback submitted in February.

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Got Web 2.0?

If you’re interested in learning about Web 2.0 tools and how they can be used to enhance instruction, Edublogs has a Free Tools Challenge you can participate in anywhere, anytime (as long as you have internet access).

If you take on the Free Tool Challenge, you will be given an overview of a Web 2.0 tool, a hands on “activity” using the tool, a “challenge” using the tool, and additional resources to help you as you integrate the tool.

Check it out and let us know how it goes!

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Platform Decision

January 10, 2012

 

From: Lance Tachino, Hawaii Campus High School 1:1 Student Laptop Project Manager and the 1:1 Project Core Team

To:                        Hawaii Campus High School Faculty

Subject:            Student and Teacher Laptop Platform Decision

 

Aloha, I know many of you have been eagerly awaiting the student and teacher laptop platform decision.  The process involved engaging the High School faculty and some students to gather their input and mana`o by attending the Dell and Apple sessions.  We thank you for your participation and feedback.  The project core team’s recommendation to Dr. Fortuna was based heavily on your responses.  Dr. Fortuna received the core team’s recommendation in December, 2011 and he has agreed with the core team to support the Apple Macintosh platform.  The Apple Macintosh models are as follows:

  • Apple MacBook Pro 13”            for Teachers
  • Apple MacBook Air 11”            for Students

We understand that some of you may not have been in favor of the Apple laptop; however, we ask that you support this decision.  The core will be providing assistance and training to those who are concerned with the transition of their Dell laptops to Apple Macintosh laptops.  We will be providing more details on this support process in the future.

If any of you have further concerns about this decision, please contact Phil Aganus or myself ([email protected]).

Finally, we would like to thank all the participants, vendors and core team members that made this process a fair, equitable and open process.

 

Mahalo,

Lance Tachino

Project Manager

 

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Communication from 1 to 1 Project Manager

Aloha KS Hawai’i Faculty,

As the Project Manager for the KS Hawaii High School Student 1 to 1 Laptop Project, I have been quite impressed with your staff and faculty.  It is not often that I get to work with people who are willing to collaborate with their faculty.  Your core project team and administration has undertaken a huge task in planning for the deployment of over 600 student laptops in SY 2012-2013.  As part of this planning process, the core team has reached out to faculty and students to review and give feedback on the laptop platform.  The feedback received will help formulate a laptop recommendation that we will forward to Dr. Fortuna for his approval.  Hopefully, he will make a decision by the end of December.  We want to thank all the faculty and students that participated in this very important evaluation process.

We are planning to have a decision made by January 12. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this process, please feel free to contact Phil Aganus or myself at [email protected].

Again, mahalo for your participation and feedback!

Lance Tachino
Project Manager
Hawaii campus HS student laptop project

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ISTE 2012 Application Open

FROM:            Phil Aganus

RE:                   ISTE 2012 Application Process

Aloha Everyone,

We are excited to move forward and finalize our plans to attend the upcoming 2012 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference.   Attached, you will find a Participation Process Fact Sheet that will outline the process to apply for and attend the conference.

Whether you are a novice or an expert technology user, we are encouraging all faculty members to think about attending ISTE 2012.  This conference is the largest educational technology conference in the nation. It provides the best teaching and technology professional development opportunities for teachers.   The workshops offered are for all skill levels and abilities.   You will also see actual teachers and students use and train on educational technology.

Faculty interested in attending will need to submit the following documents:

  • Professional Development Request form
  • ISTE 2012 Attendee Application

Deadline for submittal of form and application is Monday, November 21st, 2011.

If you have any questions, please feel free to see me.

Mahalo!

PARTICIPANT PROCESS AND REQUIREMENTS form – FINAL

ISTE 2012 Conference San Diego Application

PD Request form ISTE 2012

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Vendor Demonstrations

Kamehameha Schools Hawaii Campus 1:1 Project

Vendor Demonstrations

Schedule

Apple and Dell will be on campus Nov 14 and 15 as part of the evaluation process of potential devices for the 1:1 Project. There will be five sessions held on both days with each session lasting approximately 80 minutes.

The session times will be as follows:

  1. 8:00-9:12a
  2. 9:46-11:06a
  3. 12:13-1:33p
  4. 1:40-3:00p
  5. 3:10-4:30p

Participants

  1. All High School faculty (50)
  2. High School students from leadership groups (20)
  3. Select staff (10)

Setup

  1. Vendors will be located in separate rooms.
  2. Each room will be equipped with a projector.
  3. An ITRT will be available in each room to assist the vendor.
  4. Lunch for the vendors will be provided on both days.
  5. Devices will be setup with wireless access and pre-installed with MS Office Suite.

Vendor Guidelines

  1. The beginning 15-20 minutes of each session is reserved for a presentation by the vendor.
  2. The remaining time should be spent on Q&A and platform/device demonstrations.
  3. Format of the demonstrations is up to the discretion of the vendor.
  4. Vendors are only allowed to demonstrate devices that have been given prior approval (see next section for list of approved devices).
  5. Vendors are not allowed to present or engage participants outside the designated session times.
  6. Giveaways are not permitted.

Approved Devices

The following is a list of approved devices that can be shown during the demonstrations:

Apple

  1. MacBook Air 11”
  2. MacBook Air 13”
  3. MacBook Pro 13”
  4. iPad

Dell

  1. Latitude E6420
  2. Latitude E6320
  3. Latitude ST

Participant Instructions

The purpose of the vendor demonstrations is to provide faculty, students, and staff the opportunity to learn as much as possible about the vendors, their approach, their platforms, and their devices. Participants will be asked to score each device based on two criteria: Education Fit and User Experience.

Some questions you might consider as you review the platforms and devices:

Education Fit (for Teachers)

  1. How well does the platform meet your needs to integrate technology into your curriculum and reach your program goals?
  2. What are the unique capabilities of each platform that could improve student learning and enhance the school’s project-based learning objectives?
  3. How well does the platform allow you to implement different learning strategies? Does any platform allow you to better individualize curriculum for a particular student?
  4. Does the platform allow you to develop the instructional material you need for your class?

Education Fit (for Students)

  1. If students were assigned projects requiring them to communicate through multimedia (audio, video, animation, etc.), are there advantages to a particular platform to produce this content?
  2. Consuming content for research and study is an important task students will need to perform. Does a platform offer a unique advantage in terms of collecting, organizing, and analyzing information?
  3. Students will also be asked to collaborate with one another and with their teachers. How well does each platform allow you to do this?
  4. One of the benefits this project hopes to achieve is for students to become more engaged and involved in their learning and to allow them to produce better quality work. Would any of the platforms or devices help the project better achieve this objective?

User Experience (for Teachers and Students)

  1. When scoring User Experience, base your score on your own personal interaction with the device and how it meets your requirements as a teacher or a student.
  2. Since teachers and students may differ in terms of the specifications and experience they want in a device, a final User Experience score will be calculated separately for each group.
  3. Does the device provide an interface (operating system and software) that you will be able to easily adopt?
  1. How well does the device characteristics and performance (such as device size, weight, screen size, keyboard, battery life) suit your needs as a teacher or student?

Scoring

Participants are required to attend both vendor sessions before scoring. Sign-in sheets will be available up to 10 minutes after the start of the session. Scoring will be done for each device on a 1 to 5 scale (5 = Best, 1 = Worst). Scoring sheets will be distributed on Wednesday, Nov 16.

 

Sample Scoring Sheet

Platform Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X iOS Win 7 Win 7 Win 7
Device MacBook Air 11” MacBook Air 13” MacBook Pro 13” iPad E6420 E6320 ST
Education Fit              
User Experience              

 

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