Today, the grade 6 team sat together to iron out the orientation schedule for next year. Having been through the orientation and laptop roll out once already, we feel much more prepared for next year then we did this time last year. After a lengthy discussion and looking back at some old notes from the first week of this school year, this is what we decided on was essential for those first two introductory days back at school:
1. Laptop nuts & bolts session (including what's included in the laptop bag, logging in, changing passwords, navigating the mainshare and D drive, logging into school email and changing that password as well)
2. TUP (going over some of the main expectations with our school's Technology User Plan - but we also thought this was too much information for those first days. We decided a brief introduction followed by a more in depth lesson on the TUP in the second week of school)
3. Personalizing the desktop (fun activity where students personalize desktop with four things that speak to who they are)
4. Tour (hallway patterns and expectations for carrying laptops, storing laptops, and laptop free zones)
5. Online classroom (logging into, changing password, and an introduction to navigating the LMS)
We are pretty satisfied with those topic areas for the first two days. 7th and 8th grade will also be implementing their laptop program too in those first two orientation days. It will be interesting to see how whether their priorities differ or are imilar to the 6th grade...
Monday, April 13, 2009
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