The first year of South Hamilton’s 1:1 is in the books and was a great success! There were many students that did not want to turn in their laptops and start their summer break. The School Board, Administration and Staff all expect the greatness to continue. Since technology never stands still and South Hamilton’s goal is to prepare students for the world in which they will live there will be some new things for next year:
1) All students will be given a gmail account in the fall, this will give access to emails, google docs and many other great apps provided by Google for free. Student email accounts will be firstname_lastname@studnet.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us. To read more about Iowa’s relationship with Google Apps for Education go to http://bit.ly/8YaTJM
2) More classes will be using Moodle to organize courses.
3) Limiting Printing, South Hamilton will be adding Turn it in.com to our teacher toolboxes. This website will allow teachers to collect papers electronically, grade and return paper electronically. This tool also allows teachers to check for plagerism.
4) Addition of Smartboards, due to the recent Microsoft settlement South Hamilton has been able to acquire a number of SmartBoards for the entire district K-12. Some of these will be in by the start of school.
5) Increase in bandwidth, South Hamilton increased their internet connection speed from 10Mb to 20Mb. As students need access to more and more web 2.0 websites we need more and more speed.
6) Also remember to check Mr. Hehr’s blog for continued updates.
One last important item to point out, roll out night for the 2010-2011 school year will be: August 16th for last names A-N and August 17th for last names O-Z. This years roll-out will be more workshop based and less paperwork talk than last year. Attention students: It is important to remember that in order to get your laptop back you need to attend the roll-out night with a parent/guardian.
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