The Pioneer Laptop Program

launched Friday Oct 5, 2007 ... ready for second year, August 2008

Click here for the computer training session on Oct 22 or 23 or 24

Letter of Understanding re becoming a Laptop Pioneer at The Children's Storefront

Directions: please highlight this text, then choose COPY and now paste into a NEW email message to me ... Steve

Please put your initials in each set of parentheses ( ) or put NA if not applicable

( ) Yes I would like to be a Laptop Pioneer and receive one of the new Mac/PC cross platform laptops.
( ) I understand that the program will involve approximately 10 hours of training over this coming academic year.
( ) If I am a classroom teacher, I will be asked to use a projector and smartboard in the classroom on an occasional basis and model the usage of integrating technology in the classroom.
( ) If my job at The Children's Storefront is not involved in classroom teaching, then I will make an effort to use the laptop and a projector at occasional faculty meetings, division meetings, administrative meetings, etc
( ) I understand that I will be asked to take ownership of one Web page on our Web site and will of course be given training and lessons in how that works.
( ) I understand that when I am at school, the laptop must either be in my possession or it must be be locked with a security cable. I understand that keeping it in a locked office is not adequate. But of course, I can take the laptop home whenever desired and once at home, it is not necessary to be locked with a security cable.
( ) I understand that I will be asked to write a note to Pioneer Diaries on occasion describing the journey with a description of how things have been going and what I am planning.
( ) I understand that if I am not selected in August 2008, there will be another opportunity in Spring 2009 or Fall of 2009.
( ) I understand that in the second year of our Pioneer Program (08-09) each Pioneer with a smartboard in her/his classroom will be asked to be part of our One-On-One Smartboard Mentoring Program.
( ) I understand that since we are a "one person computer department" it is helpful for as many colleagues as possible to learn to help each other with tech problems so that we have a community of faculty and staff that "lean on each other" and "let others lean on them" ... this way we have a computer department of 40 instead of 1 ;-)
( ) I understand that this pioneer agreement is on a one year renewal basis and the fact that I have a pioneer laptop one year does not mean that I automatically have it the next year. I also understand that if and when I leave Storefront, the computer is to be returned to the school along with security lock, security cable, chargers, laptop bag etc

Please add any text or explanation about how the usage of a laptop may prove to be helpful to our students at The Children's Storefront.

Click here for the email sent on Wed 11/7/07.

Below is a list of where each of the laptops is currently located.

lab 4/25/08
lab 4/25/08 ... #2 has W87360FPZ60
lab 4/25/08 ... #3 has W87360FRZ60 ... SPLINTER to JASON 5/15/10
lab 4/25/08 ... #4 has W87360FUZ60
lab 4/25/08 ... #5 has W87360FWZ60 ... SPLINTER to JASON 5/15/10
Kathy has black laptop #6
lab 4/25/08
lab 4/25/08 ... #8 has W87360FVZ60
Amanda had laptop #9 and it is in lab 9/1/09 and needing to be imaged ... w87361c6z5v ... SPLINTER
~~Rubin has laptop #10 and that is now GONE~~
Joanna has laptop #11 (formerly Luis) ... W87361BWZ5V
Laptop #12 is now with Pioneer Rubin as of mid Oct 2009 .. formerly Victor had it (needs PS to be removed) ... W87361BYZ5V ... borrowed for SUMMER 2009 by Jennifer
Laptop #13 in lab 11/12/08 ... formerly Joel had it (needs PS to be removed) .. borrowed by Rubin for Summer 2009 ... w873707ayy1 ... SPLINTER
ALSO MONIQUE had #13 ... I think TWO MACHINES said 13 .. this one is returned ... in the lab as of 9/9/09 with the anomaly that the USB cable from a smartboard freezes the cursor
Laptop #14 is back in lab 4/11/10 ... returned by Damaa who reports issues with it, so we will re-image ... Serial # W87361CCZ5V ... SPLINTER to JASON 5/15/10
Monica has laptop #15 (needs PS to be removed) ... W87361YBZ5V ... SPLINTER to JASON 5/15/10

Judy Reibel had laptop #16 with no bag and yes a combo lock ... W87361C2Z5V got new keyboard thur Jason from Digital Society ... 16 is back in the lab as of 9/1/09 and needs to be IMAGED

Hi Steve; Here are the serial numbers for the 16 computers (ID 1-16) not covered by AppleCare. Regards, Jeff

White MacBooks
W87361BYZ5V   
W87361CCZ5V   
W87361C2Z5V   
W87361BWZ5V   
W87361C5Z5V   
W87361C6Z5V   
W87361BRZ5V   
W87361YBZ5V   

Black MacBooks
W87360FNZ60     
W87360FPZ60     
W87360FQZ60     
W87360FRZ60     
W87360FTZ60     
W87360FUZ60     
W87360FVZ60     
W87360FWZ60

Charles Brown (aug 2008) has #17 ... formerly Q'Jette
Candace has laptop #18
Alexis has laptop #19
Stephanie and Tracy have laptop #20
Monique and Judith have laptop #21 ... VERY STRANGE ... there is no #21 as of 9/1 but perhaps a duplicate of #13
Laptop #22 is now with Alex Castro (11/14/08) ... formerly Ryan had laptop #22 and Marguerita used this for Filemaker for Oct 08 grades ... W873904CYY1
laptop #23 is now in the lab 7/1/08 ... W87396EGZ5V ... SPLINTER to JASON 5/15/10
Adjowah has laptop #24
~~Yahni has laptop #25 ... this is the one with liquid damage that is now just for parts ... serial # w87396hpz5v~~
Katie has laptop #26 .. back in lab 9/1/09 and TO BE IMAGEDs
lab 4/24/08 (laptop 27) ... OS 10.5 ... W874530ZZ65 ... IMAGED BY Scott W 6/1/09 ... now Pioneer Tonya Fisher 9/9/09
lab 4/24/08 (laptop 28) ... OS 10.5 ... W8745KP8Z62 ... student named DR machine not working ... Jason and Apple March 2009 ... IMAGED BY Scott W 6/1/09 ... now in hands of pioneer Christine James as of 9/2009
laptop 29 ... is 1 of the 2 that was stolen in 07-08 ... as of 9/9/09 I am using this for Pioneer Dana since her laptop was labelled 13 the same as another one labelled 13 which was so strange
laptop 30 ... is 1 of the 2 that was stolen in 07-08.
lab 4/24/08 (laptop 31) ... OS 10.5 ... Scott Wickham IMAGE ... IMAGED BY Scott W 6/1/09
Laptop #32 in lab as 11/12/08 ... formerly Amanda had laptop #32 as 1 of 2 educational laptops ... now in possession of Yahni as of 9/1/09
lab 4/24/08 (laptop 33) ... OS 10.5 ... W8745KP3Z62 ...has wireless card issues ... ... IMAGED BY Scott W 6/1/09 ... now with Wendy as of May 2010
Steve has laptop #34 ... OS 10.5 ... W8745319Z65 ... SPLINTER
Laptop #35 is now in Arlita's office as the US Spare Laptop as of 12/4/09
Laptop # 36 is now with Damaa Bell who returned #14 on 4/13/10
Laptop #37 is now with Stephanie Ling as of 4/13/10

Laptop # 37 is in lab and donated by an outsider ... w87yyk67z63 ... SPLINTER ... IMAGED BY Scott W 6/1/09

SB personal BLACK LAPTOP ... SPLINTER ... W87200EPYA9

note from 1/1/08 ... Leopard 10 MacBooks from 27 to 36 ... 36 purchased

Topics we covered in various training sessions

Admin account .... what is our login and password?
Did we set the SLEEP
Best practices regarding safety: security lock, not walking with laptop open, electric plug and charging, using a laptop case and not a personal backpack with other stuff
Overview re http://www.thechildrensstorefront.org/ and http://www.cstorefront.org
Adding tech to our URL
Which grade 8 student will become your partner?
How to swap the battery
How to install software
How to access one of our printers on campus
How to access the file server with your personal login and password and accessing shared files
What does it mean about 1gig vs 2gig
What is parallels and will you become a JV or Varsity user
Making sure you understand First Class plan A vs First Class plan B
Microsoft Word Skills ... let us work through these challenges and these skills together ... http://www.summercore.com/challenges/
Microsoft Excel Skills
Internet Explorer Skills especially with the FAVORITES ToolBar
What should every laptop contain ideally? Remember that we are pioneers and it will take us a while to reach Orgeon
How to access the Web template and make your first Web page
How to hook up speakers, head phones, and a projector

Useful Links

Click here for Firefox
Click here for Flip4Mac
Click here for Inspiration and Kidspiration
Click here for RealPlayer
Click here for Parallels
Click here for the Template we will use for creating Web pages
Click here for the Grade 8 Web pages
Click here for the free software we identified for Tech Saturdays, some of which you may wish to download
Click here for our Student HTML Web page which has tips for those of you who make Web pages

First Required Pioneer Note (several weeks after launch)

good morning to the 14 Pioneers who met on 11/7 when we launched ... it has been about a month and is time to write your first Pioneer note ... please send to Pioneer Diaries (ML) and understand that I will be compiling the notes and sharing as part of a Web page ... questions below are intended to provide you with some things to respond to ... you do NOT have to answer all questions and can use any format you like, even pretending you are writing in a covered wagon that is heading to Oregon ;-)

( ) I understand that I will be asked to write a note to Pioneer Diaries (ML) at least once a month describing the journey with a description of how things have been going and what I am planning

where do you keep your pioneer laptop (home or at school)? do you ever bring it back and forth?
do you have a combo lock if used at school?
have you used a projector yet in the classroom? if yes, what did you think of the experience? do you know that I can easily set you up with a projector in the classroom and if time allows "be your techie" while you teach the kids
we now have several extra projectors so that you can have one permanently if desired and if you will commit to using it at least 2 or 3 times per week
what have you used your pioneer laptop for so far?
can you access the Web from home? legally or by tapping into a neighbor's wireless?
do you want to be on the mailing list called Pioneer Diaries (ML)? if yes, you will get a lot more mail .. if not, I will compile once a month
have you started serious work on your Web page? do you want to catch 30 minutes one on one to help review and get you going on this? if so, please sign up on my door? it would be a great pleasure to meet with you for 30 minutes on ANY topic you want!
do you use First Class regularly now? do you like it?
what is your reaction to having a pioneer laptop for the first month?

topics we covered briefly in our first two hour session back in Nov or Dec: Best practices regarding safety: security lock, not walking with laptop open, electric plug and charging, using a laptop case and not a personal backpack with other stuff, Admin account and password for installing software, How to swap the battery How to hook up speakers, head phones, and a projector, the basics of making a Web page

topics for this third hour include: Mac shortcuts, accessing your file server folder more quickly, using the PC side of your Macbook (1 gig vs 2 gig and parallels), intro to the Smartboard, working with pictures (iPhoto), intro to Kidspiration and Inspiration, update re printing from a laptop, Page breaks on Microsoft Word (re comments), the value of a regular weekly time slot

Pioneer Training Session October 22-24, 2008

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

Something old? standard Microsoft Word tricks for tabs, margin markers, leader tabs
Something new? an intro to blogs and wikis
Something borrowed? finding curriculum related PowerPoints and Smartboard Lessons
Something blue? find out about the blues you hear on our main Web page and where it is from

Related to above

Click here for a Microsoft Word challenge we will tackle
Our 8th graders have blogs here. Let us create a faculty blog for a pioneer of the form blogs.cstorefront.org/???? ... I can make the account for you by going here and dealing with a complicated password ;-)
Let us see the power of typing something like SMARTBOARD LESSON TIME into Google or doing an Advanced Search to find a PowerPoint on a specific topic
In order to get back to the specific Web page, you need to know the password for the new Intranet section of www.thechildrensstorefront.org