SAMUEL W. SHAW SCHOOL, CALGARY

•IWBs used by students mainly, not only for teachers to provide instruction

•Ebooks & IWBs – teachers writing notes in the margins when sharing

reading

•Online subscriptions that allow students’ access from home (e.g.

Discovery education)

•Special cases (autism, Down syndrome, learning disabilities, second lang

learners) learn better through technology. Curriculum adapted for these

cases

•Teachers just being taught the IWB’s basic management,

they researched and learned by themselves. School’s

policy states IWBs’ use as mandatory

•One set of 30 ipods. Students use them for downloading

Video

•Portal (Alberta Board of Education) – access to students,

Parents and teachers

SMARTECH

•One touch integrated products – SMART Board/ Table/ Response /Sync

/Exchange /Administrator tools

•System: hardware, software, content, PD, learning community, faculties

of education

•Training & Professional Development – SMART training certification

(Notebook and Smartboards, classroom suites), lesson designer – Five

levels of learning

HP

•Virtualization of technology - thin clients virtualized classroom

•Three projects: HP MultiSeat, HP TeachNow, HP SchoolCloud

•HP SchoolCloud – personalized anytime/anywhere learning. Students

and teachers access all their applications and data through an

Instructional Desktop that follows them … throughout their school day …

from home … or any Internet device. IT manages a handful of servers

instead of hundreds or thousands of PCs. Administrators get vital usage

data that indicates how technology affects students’ outcome

•ClassLink: software for clouding, can be uploaded on Citrix to have more

tools such as communication with students and applications such as

Photoshop and Autocad simultaneously, also video

SchoolCloud demo

LAPTOPS

CALGARY SCHOOL: One set of 30 laptops per grade (4 classes, 27

stds/class). Levels divide the set among the four classes and borrow

them.

Children allowed to bring laptops, but not hook up to network, work on a

separate network for students

MARKHAM COLLEGE (LIMA): A laptop assigned to each student from the

2nd year in Secondary school onwards (ab. 600 laptops), 2 PC labs for the

last year of Primary sch. and the first year of Secondary sch.; a lab in

Preschool and 3 labs in Primary, plus a computer per classroom. They

had a laptop cart in Bach, but since students were not careful enough they

decided to make a laptop classroom, mainly used for Maths.