[CASL-L] Chromebooks in Schools

[Fitzgerald, Joy]

Our School has had LOANABLE Carts of Chromebooks in use this year. While this is not ONE ON ONE for the school, it allows a class to have one on one for a period of time.  This new option has forced many teachers to change their expectations of always using Microsoft Office's POWERPOINT or WORD, which we do not have access to in our district, at this time, on the chromebooks (at one point we thought we were getting Office 365, but it hasn't happened yet).

The Library Media Specialist has a great opportunity, especially if your teachers are used to falling back on using WORD & PowerPoint.This is an opportunity to show the teachers and students PREZI and ANIMOTO or other websites that can be their PROJECT PRESENTATION PLATFORMS and use Google or other online sites for Word Processing or Classroom Blog sites. Schoology is the preferred teacher and class site one of several teachers who has been using a CHROMEBOOK all year.

And the Library Website or WIKISPACE PAGES for SUBJECT GUIDES are always a great quickly editable jumping off point for teachers and students who are doing special topics.

Joy


Joy Fitzgerald, Librarian Media Specialist, Dept. Head.

Rockville High School Library

70 Loveland Hill Road

Vernon, CT 06066

860-870-6050 ext. 336

Joy.Fitzgerald at vernonct.org<mailto:Joy.Fitzgerald at vernonct.org>

Hours of Operation: 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. E.S.T.

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From: casl-l-bounces+joy.fitzgerald=vernonct.org at mylist.net [casl-l-bounces+joy.fitzgerald=vernonct.org at mylist.net] on behalf of Crowley, John [jcrowley at region9ps.org]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 8:05 AM
To: Shanley, Kristen; casl-l at mylist.net
Subject: Re: [CASL-L] (no subject)

I heard that Greenwich is going to Chromebooks for the middle schools.
The contact is Fran Kompar Fran_kompar at greenwich.k12.ct.us


John Crowley

Director, Learning Resources & Information Technology
Joel Barlow High School
100 Black Rock Turnpike
Redding, CT 06896
203-938-2508 x1540
fax 203-938-9851



On 4/24/14, 8:16 PM, "Shanley, Kristen" <kheiligman at cheshire.k12.ct.us>
wrote:

>Looking for advice and suggestions on the role of the library media
>specialist in a middle school that has one to one Chromebooks for all
>students. We are looking to make changes to the existing library and are
>curios if anyone else is in a similar situation.
>
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