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One-To-One Laptop Issue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Alicia May 29, 2009. 5 Replies

 

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Alicia replied to Alicia's discussion One-To-One Laptop Issue
"District or State will not allow us to hold grades because of unpaid fines. (not sure which one) Good idea about adding the fee for the next year. Thanks!"
May 29, 2009
Rich White replied to Alicia's discussion One-To-One Laptop Issue
".... Add the fee when they enroll the net year or hold their grades until fee's are paid?"
May 28, 2009
Alicia replied to Alicia's discussion One-To-One Laptop Issue
"Thank you, yes we aren't losing our trust in students, guess we never dreamed of this happening either. We do have Computrace and they can disable it for us, should the student choose not to return it. I just look at this as a learning…"
May 28, 2009
Alicia replied to Alicia's discussion One-To-One Laptop Issue
"Thank you for your response. 1. The police said because we issued the laptop to them, we cannot consider it stolen.( but we are questioning this still) 2. $200 fine is our replacement fee for them, the insurance covers the rest. 3. Our agreement is…"
May 28, 2009
Alicia posted a discussion

One-To-One Laptop Issue

We have tested out a one-to-one laptop project this year with our Tech Apps courses. Now that the year is coming to an end, we are running into issues. We have a few students that are not returning their laptops. Some refuse to pay the $200 fine. We were told by the police that we cannot treat it as stolen because we issued it to them. Anyone have any suggestions or similar situations that they can give me some pointers on how to deal with this situation? Kind of at a loss now. How does your…See More
May 27, 2009
Alicia replied to Brad Bahns's discussion Technology Standards for Teachers
"We used the tech lit exam for our 9th graders and soon for our 8th graders. The only bad thing about it is based on the curriculum they provide."
Apr 24, 2009
Alicia replied to Brad Bahns's discussion Technology Standards for Teachers
"Our district currently has 2 ed tech specialists. We are to help model teaching with technology, train teachers use technology, etc. Fortunately we have a lot of teachers that LOVE learning technology. Our problem comes when they try to do things in…"
Apr 22, 2009

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At 5:34pm on April 22, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…
Hi Alicia,

With your work in Education Technology at your District, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.

 
 
 

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