Middle and high school students at Long Lake Central School received their long-awaited HP Chromebook laptops for use in school and at home.  Their teachers are already up and running utilizing the laptops to add digital components to their lessons.   Above, the 5th and 6th grade students in Mrs. Pine's Social Studies class use their new laptops to review the regions of the U.S. and their natural resources.

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Apple iPad tablets have also arrived and will be handed out in the elementary grades for instructional use in the coming weeks.  The tablets will remain in the classrooms.

 

Anticipation had been high as the school wrote and finalized the Smart Schools grant last year, waited for State approval and then planned and implemented the 1:1 device policy for the Pre K-12 population.  Staff and teachers received extensive training on the devices last year, in readiness to hit the ground running this year with the new technology. 

 

Andy Truesdell, who heads technology at LLCS, has been instrumental in programming and inventorying the Chromebooks with the proper specs, ordering and housing the devices in great cases and distributing them to students and teachers.  Having a seasoned IT perspective helped in the research phase of the device implementation in creating policies, implementation procedures and proper device use information for these laptops.