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Team Drives are useful alternative for workgroups
The district has deployed "Team Drives" within Google Drive as an alternative to the usual "MyDrive". Team Drives allow a group of district users to easily store, search, access, and edit shared files. This service is targeted toward groups of district staff members; it is NOT suitable for sharing files with non-employees. A big advantage to this approach, versus having one person create a file or folder and then share items with the other team members, is that Team Drive files belong to the team instead of an individual. So they won’t disappear when their creator leaves the district. Some things to bear in mind about Team Drives: Everyone on a team might be able to edit the files in that Team Drive. So think before you put documents into a Team Drive or add users to a Team Drive, since everyone with access to that drive could have editing rights to everything in there. However, when adding users to a Team Drive, you can choose to limit them to viewing or commenting access. Make a copy if you don't want to edit the master version of a document. If you want to customize your own copy of a file in a Team Drive, open it and use File > Make a copy… to create your own version to edit. You can then use File > Move to shift that copied file around, including relocating it into your own MyDrive so that you can share it differently or with no one at all. You can share files in a Team Drive beyond that team, but only to district users. You can still share viewing and editing rights to documents in a Team Drive beyond the users assigned to the team. HOWEVER, such shares are limited to district Google accounts. You can't share the files with the general public nor with accounts not associated with the district. So for files you want to make public, use your MyDrive. |  |
Google Cast for Education Deployed
We have deployed Google Cast for Education to all district Chrome devices and accounts. So when staff members or students use their district account to log into a Chromebook or log into the Chrome web browser on a desktop or laptop computer, they will automatically have it available. Google Cast for Education allows you to wirelessly mirror your desktop screen or a tab in your Chrome browser to any other Chrome browser you are also logged into. This means:
Here's a link to a document with detailed instructions and screenshots for setting up and using this feature: |  |
1:1 Computing Initiative Update
1:1 Computing PlanIn August 2016 district voters approved a bond issue to fund a multi-year plan to implement 1:1 computing for secondary school students. This will eventually provide a Chromebook to each middle school and high school student for use both at school and at home.
2016-2017
In the 2016-2017 pilot year, 13 carts with 20 to 35 Chromebooks have been provided to the students in all 10th, 11th, and 12th Grade English classrooms. The students and teachers are using G Suite for Education along with the Canvas Learning Management System in their lessons. Beginning in January 2017, 9-12 faculty members have been eligible for instructional equipment rewards for completing online training on the Canvas Learning Management System via KUNGFUCANVAS.ORG. Similar programs will be offered to 6-8 faculty in 2018-2019 before Chromebooks are distributed to middle school students the following school year.
2017-2018 In August 2017 all freshmen will receive a Chromebook for use at school and home. The district is prepared to deal with the accidental damage that may occur. Parents will be able to purchase an insurance plan to help cover Chromebook repairs, and there will be an on-site Chromebook repair and support program at the high school, manned by trained students and an instructor. The Chromebooks program will expand to grades 9-12 in 2018-2019, and to grades 6-12 in 2019-2020.
Our elementary schools will begin offering Project Lead the Way Launch STEM modules in 2017-2018. We will ensure each school has a compatible iPad cart via a Challenge Grant from the Bartlesville Public School Foundation and other sources. We expect to need a second iPad cart at each elementary school in 2018-2019 as additional STEM modules are added. In later years, additional iPad and/or Chromebook carts will be provided to expand use of devices in the elementary classrooms. Unlike the secondary school Chromebooks, the elementary devices will be school-based and not checked out to individual students.
Technology advances quickly, so this timeline and plan structure is subject to change in order to maximize instructional effectiveness and efficiency. |  |
Bruins Chromebook User Guide Available
BHS Chromebook Carts Deployed
All 13 Chromebook Carts for the pilot stage of the district's 1:1 computing initiative have now been deployed. Almost all sophomores, juniors, and seniors will gain experience using the Chromebooks for class assignments and activities since every dedicated English and Language Arts classroom in grades 10-12 received a cart.*
The following 10th-12th grade English and Language Arts teachers received carts of 35 Chromebooks for their students to use in class during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years:
Additional carts with 20 Chromebooks were distributed to the following teachers in Special Education and Bruin Academy:
A special thanks to the following teachers for their after-school efforts in helping get the carts ready:
*Severe and Profound (Intellectually Disabled and Multihandicapped) special education classes, which already have dedicated iPads, did not receive Chromebook carts in this initial deployment.
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