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Wireless Educator Initiative Community High School District 128
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Program Description This program provides eligible, full-time CHSD128 teachers with an HP laptop or tablet PC for a period of up to five years. Participation in this program is voluntary.
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Rationale for Program CHSD 128 Strategic Plan Implement technologies which enhance the delivery and content of the curriculum Implement technologies which support the collection, interpretation and analysis of student performance data Implement technologies which enhance parent/student/teacher/district communications Online Course Management (Moodle) School Improvement Planning Curriculum Revision Practices ACT Readiness Standards Assessment Delivery & Data Analysis
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Program Eligibility All full-time CHSD 128 teachers are eligible to submit an application to participate in the program Teachers who participate in district-wide initiatives related to online course management, school improvement or curriculum revision will be eligible to apply Teachers must commit to a 2-hour orientation workshop which provides basic training in power management, security, docking, wireless configuration and application management Teachers who select a tablet PC, must participate in an additional 2-4 hour workshop on using applications specific to writing tablet technologies
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Security and Management of Hardware All tablets and laptops will be equipped with Computrace LoJack.... a software-based computer tracking, data protection, asset tracking and theft recovery service Program hardware can only be used for educational purposes consistent with the teacher’s District Acceptable Usage Policy
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How will we fund this? IT plans to interrupt the five-year replacement cycle for district desktop PCs Extending the use of approximately 130 of 430 five-year old HP D530 computer systems currently in use can free up over $100,000 in projected technology monies. Limits “may” be set for the number of program participants in the first year…to possibly 60 teachers district-wide (30% of all teachers.) The HP D530 computer systems are Pentium 4- 2.4 GHz computers with 512MB memory and plenty of hard drive capacity to handle our current application set. The district currently has 1600 computers in use; a ratio of students/staff to computers of about 2.5:1 (one of the lowest in Lake County.)
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Timelines October – November 2008 > Meet with All-Admin, Technology Teams, Strategic Planning Team, I-Team & STARS to finalize program eligibility requirements and answer questions December 2008 > Formally introduce program details to teachers and provide a Moodle discussion forum to answer questions and get feedback January 2009 > Teachers apply for participation in the program (application deadline: February 1, 2009) February – March 2009 > Finalize IT readiness requirements and budget details July 2009 > Acquire and test hardware August 2009 > Distribute program hardware and begin training
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