Student+Workstations


 * Laptop with 15" monitor
 * Managed laptop service
 * Full featured hardware support/service contract.
 * Good graphics card
 * Cellular modem card for each
 * 4 GB Ram
 * smaller hard drive
 * Extended battery life
 * One replacement battery for every two laptops
 * Laptop bag

TI-Nspire student software (calculator, geometry, data and statistics, graphing, spreadsheet, word processing for reports and presentations) – files download to handheld and back to laptop managed laptop service, budgeting $100 per laptop per year, which includes: - Initial processing of each new laptop – asset tagging, computrace activation, and storage until deployment request - Initial deployment at beginning of school year: imaging, config for specific student, attach to domain controller, and deployment to school. - Telephone help-desk support, pickup of broken systems, depot repair, and drop-off back to school for return to spares pool - Web-based asset management software to keep track of which student has which laptop, laptop repair & disposition history reporting, etc – all accessible and usable by your team - End of year laptop pickup, cleaning & repair, and storage for next school year
 * Investigating half of laptops with cellular air card with service from 5:00pm to 6:30am**
 * Plan to lease each student laptop over 4 years: budget $300 - $400 per year

1:1 computing Rubrik

Laptop Recommendations from New Tech Learning Network **

New Dell Latitude. Is this the one we should use?

=**NETS FOR STUDENTS 2007, The National Education Technology Standards **=

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 * NETS FOR STUDENTS 2007**
 * 1. Creativity and Innovation**
 * 2. Communication and Collaboration**
 * 3. Research and Information Fluency**
 * NETS•S 2007 Student Profiles** (pdf)
 * Essential Conditions** (pdf)