New Chromebooks are Here!

Ms. Newburger, Library Goddess, setting up a cart of Chromebooks from scratch.

Yesterday CMS delivered 3 carts full of shiny new Chromebooks. They are ready to go now (interested in how we got a 24 hour turnaround? see below) so head over to signup genius to reserve them for your end of the year digital needs!

Links:

• Piedmont Tech Signup (Signup Genius Link-use your CMS email to login)
  
• Chromebook procedures for teachers (private staff wiki link)
  
• Chromebook and Drive Instructions for students
• Online Learning Rules and Procedures for students
• Chromebook Usage Video Tutorials (my homemade)
• Drive Usage Video Tutorials (my homemade)
• Professional Tutorials via Atomic Learning- Passwords posted on private staff wiki, on media center doorway as you exit into the hall or email me.

Note: Ms. Newburger has streamlined a system to make the sharing of our school tech as smooth as possible. Please respect her work by adhering to procedures while the Chromebooks are in your care. Especially note that they are not as rugged as our iPads.

Setup Details:
The rest of this post is for those interested in how we keep up the Chromebooks. It's not the prettiest - but it keeps things organized when lots of people share!

Our district configures and manages them for us. Ms. Newburger figured out how to share them efficiently when we check them out to classes. She tapes down the cords so they don't get jumbled indaily checkout. She labels each cord to cut down on confusion and she puts an arrow label to help teachers see when a chromebook is missing . 

Setup workflow:

See photo above

1. take new Chromebook
2. Assign it a number on inventory list
3. Write it's number in sharpie on back of Chomebook/ total of chromebooks in cart.
4. Write it's cart number for easy return if we take them to another room for testing or if teachers share more than one cart.
5. Hand chromebook to helper.
6. Helper read out the serial number as you record that number on inventory list.
7. Helper place the chromebook in it's numbered slot and plug in
8. Repeat
9. Add new cart to your checkout form (we use Signup Genius)
   
10. Let the 21st Century learning begin!