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Format for the evening

• The Curriculum in digital form.
• Website availability -
• By Year level
• By term
• By topic
• A roadmap from P1 to Graduate Year
• Linking Curriculum, Resources and Communication.
• Teacher and Learner Mr. Miles Allkins, Director
  of Educational Technology
• Laptop 2003 04 Mrs. Trudy Bucher, Manager of
  Information Systems

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Why Laptops?

• Information Management
• Students face a huge information
  integration/organization/management task.
• Computers are the most powerful tool available
  for working with information. Therefore, students
  should be provided with computers to help them
  with the information management tasks they face.
• This reasoning becomes especially compelling with
  regard to movies, animations, and simulations.
  These dynamic ways of presenting information can
  be very effective mediums for learning, but are
  not usable anytime and anywhere without a
  one-to-one computing infrastructure.
• Computers don't replace existing tools like
  paper, writing implements, and calculators --
  computers supplement them. Computers alone don't
  solve the information management tasks students
  face. They are one part of the whole milieu of
  student development, support, and molding forces
  that exist in schools.

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Why Laptops?

• Communication
• This is seen in practice at schools with laptop
  programs such as ours through greatly eased
  communication between teachers and students,
  between students and students, and between
  students and families.
• With a one-to-one computing infrastructure in
  place, faculty can easily distribute any
  information that can be put into a digital form.
  Assignment sheets, syllabi, useful Web links, and
  accumulated digital course materials become just
  a click away.
• Students can more easily get their work to
  faculty via the network. Students can also
  collaborate more easily with each other because
  of the facilitated communications provided by
  their networked computers and various network
  servers.
• Finally, students can be in touch with friends
  and family outside the school environment in ways
  that can make many students feel less isolated.

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Why Laptops?

• Digital Manipulation
• Computers can provide virtual playgrounds, or
  what some prefer to call "digital manipulatives,"
  for an increasing number of knowledge domains. By
  virtual playgrounds I mean programs that allow
  for the playful (or at least relatively painless)
  manipulation of the information of a knowledge
  domain. For an activity to be playful there must
  be no significant cost to experimenting.

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Curriculum Development Review
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Courseware Management Distribution
What is Blackboard?
Blackboard is a curriculum content distribution
portal allowing access to multimedia education
materials.
Personal Organization
Pastoral Communication
Personal/School Communication
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Development of Materials Action Plan
Timeline
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Content Distribution and Media Styles
SummariesNotes from teachers slideshow
SlideshowsInteractive classroom resources
MoviesDigitized movie resources from classes
Information SheetsExtra resources for value
added learning
Internet LinksResearched sources on the World
Wide Web
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Dell Latitude D600

• 1.30GHZ Pentium M, 14.1 XGA
• 512MB 1 DIMM
• 24X CDRW/DVD
• 20GB Hard Drive
• Floppy Drive
• Internal 56K Modem
• Truemobile 1300 802.11b/g Internal Wireless
  Networking Card
• Grey Logitech USB Optical Mouse
• 6-Cell Primary Battery
• 3 Year Warranty
• Complete Care Package
• Targus Sports Backpack
• Windows XP Professional, SP1
• Microsoft School Agreement
• Trend Micros OfficeScan
• Mediator

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Pentium M Processor

• Designed for mobile computing
• Allows systems to be thin and light(5.30 lbs.
  with CDRW/DVD battery)
• Extended battery life
• Excellent for running applications such as word
  processing, spreadsheets, databases, as well as
  doing presentations and working wirelessly

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Memory

• 512MB 1 DIMM
• Expandable to 2GB
• Two slots available(one used for 512MB DIMM)
• Dell recommends 512MB for optimal performance

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3 Year Warranty

• For hardware failure not associated with wear and
  tear.
• Includes parts and labour.
• Repaired locally at BMS.
• Batteries and A/C adapters have only a 1 Year
  Warranty.

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Complete Care Package

• Covers accidental damage to the laptop
• (Drops, spills, cracked screens, etc.)
• Does not include theft, fire, or intentional
  damage.
• Saltus suggests that you consider adding the
  laptop to your home insurance policy for theft or
  fire.
• Coverage is for 3 years.

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Software

• Windows XP Professional, SP1
• Trend Micros OfficeScan (anti virus)
• Mediator (web page design)
• Microsoft School Agreement
• Microsoft Office Professional
• Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook
• Microsoft Publisher
• Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia

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Microsoft School Agreement

• Includes Microsoft Windows upgrades, Microsoft
  Office Professional, Microsoft Publisher and
  Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia.
• Students will be entitled to the latest versions
  of the software listed above.
• A yearly fee of approximately 53 will be
  included in the bundle cost for the first year.
• Students will not receive media.

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Cost?

• One time payment of 2020.00
• Over a 600 savings from last years bundle

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Service

• Saltus Help Desk
• Ghosting procedures
• Bermuda Microsystems, Dell Authorized Service
  Provider
• We cannot service laptops purchased outside of
  Saltus
• Spare laptops available

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