Mooresville , NC visit
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 5:35PM The trip to Mooresville, NC was quite the experience. If we could have everybody involved visit their school district and see what they are doing, we would.
One thing I want to reiterate is that 1:1 is so much more than every student having a laptop. It s a complete change in how the students aproach learning and how learning is presented to them. And also that as we look into 1:1 we understand that a very key component is Professional Development and that we can t possibly succeed if that component is not there.
Most of what I post is going to be from a technical standpoint, and involves the things that concern me so remember that.
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This is in one of their Intermediate Schools and notice how they have WiFi Access points every 20 feet or so in the hallway. For the students to be able to take their laptops from classroom to classroom this was very important.
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This room is key to making sure that every year goes well. This bench holds 105 laptops at a time and is used to image them. Imaging is the process of making a copy of a computer s Hard Drive, the image , and basically pasting that copy onto lots of other hard drives all at once. Every year a call goes out to all the teachers to let the tech staff know what software they need in their classroom and those software packages go into the image to be deployed during the summer.
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Behind the scenes is a series of server racks and networking equipment that serves the district. These are 3 of 4 main server racks and these control the internet filtering, login accounts, email, student information system, imaging, and classroom management software. All of this needs cooling as well so there are dozens of case fans all pulling and pushing air around. This was a very loud room and I m glad that we only stayed in there as long as we needed to.
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All Laptops were barcoded and had an asset tag that was entered into a database so they could keep track of all the students and who had what machine. When the next year rolled around, each student recieving the exact same machine that they may have abused last year was disheartening and is a deterrent for them abusing the equipment.
Gabriel Forrester (Tech Director)
Here are some links to the Mooresville District’s website:
Mooresville Graded School District Home Page
MGSD Digital Conversion page This one has lots of information about the process they took to implement what they have, as well as how they plan to keep it going.
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