The First Chromebooks in Taiwan - A Presentation at Google HQ
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When we determined it was time to pilot new devices to integrate technology into our BYOD school, it turned out to be an adventure as we settled to bring the first Chromebooks into the island of Taiwan.
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The First Chromebooks in Taiwan - A Presentation at Google HQ
- 2. bit.ly/googletw victor boulanger director of learning technology lena wang systems analyst @ 法國人 已任職三年 我愛台灣 我愛新科技 王若馨 系統分析師 台灣人 已任職二年 柏維德 資訊主任
- 3. KAS history technology integration implementation of GAFE at KAS chromebooks device management drawbacks conclusion
- 4. KAS history technology integration implementation of GAFE at KAS chromebooks device management drawbacks conclusion
- 5. 1992 basement of hospital (長庚醫院宿舍) 1997 high school opens with 20 students 設立高中部 1999 move to share facilities with a public school(福東國小) 2004 move to current campus location in a decommissioned school (左營勝利國 小) 2010 IB school 獲得IB認證 2015 new campus 新校舍
- 13. 新校區 友善綠化的學習環境
- 19. KAS history technology integration implementation of GAFE at KAS chromebooks device management drawbacks conclusion
- 22. 線上使用者 網路存取要求 封包數
- 23. 新校區-多媒體中心
- 25. 新校舍-資訊辦公室
- 26. KAS history technology integration implementation of GAFE at KAS chromebooks device management drawbacks conclusion
- 31. KAS history technology integration implementation of GAFE at KAS chromebooks device management drawbacks conclusion
- 33. ．1對1數位學習環境將推廣至4年 級，筆電 或 iPad？ ．成本和管理問題 ．4年級老師因為教材設計，要求 提供配有鍵盤的產品。 ．IKEA採購推車改造 -＞參考各學校IT主管建議， 決定用便宜筆電而非平板。 -＞美國科技管理協會(ISM)用 Chromebook 取代現有的 iPad。
- 35. 而鎖定宏碁設計與評價良好的機型。
- 36. 解析度考量因素
- 42. KAS history technology integration implementation of GAFE at KAS chromebooks device management drawbacks conclusion
- 53. KAS history technology integration implementation of GAFE at KAS chromebooks device management drawbacks conclusion 使用問題反饋
- 54. KAS history technology integration implementation of GAFE at KAS chromebooks device management drawbacks conclusion
- 55. bit.ly/googletw victor boulanger director of learning technology lena wang systems analyst @ 法國人 已任職三年 我愛台灣 我愛新科技 王若馨 系統分析師 台灣人 已任職二年 柏維德 資訊主任
Editor's Notes
- From France. I love Taiwan, I love technology. At 10, I broke my first computer. I started at KAS 3 years ago. Lena started at KAS for 2 years and thanks to her analytical brain quickly became systems analyst.
- Kaohsiung American School is one of 2 American schools in Taiwan It is a non-profit institution, entirely self-funded without any other support Pre-K through 12, and when I started in 2012, it had 500 students.
- Our facilities were very old No extra space and so it was difficult to find rooms to meet But it was already a very fertile ground for innovation
- And it was centered around a strong sense of family
- It is obvious that everyone knows each other and all who work at KAS are happy to help the students learn
- It wasn’t easy to say goodbye to the old facility
- So we wrote messages on the walls, floors and windows
- When it was time to leave, we were all excited for the new campus
- Our first day was April 20. It’s been four weeks now in our state of the art campus and already we have had: A play A concert A grand opening with guests from AIT and the city government
- Our new school is environmentally friendly Built around 2 big courtyards With lots of windows
- Plenty of creative spaces for meetings, gatherings, and studying Visitor from a local university explaining stretches to grade 7
- Study rooms on two floors where students can meet and work collaboratively Floor to ceiling glass whiteboards Just like in all the classrooms, the rooms are equipped for wireless projection with Apple TVs. Here we hooked them up to mobile 60” screens very much like this setting.
- We partnered with architects to build a student centered classroom. Students don’t learn by listening to teacher, they learn by doing. This trend in academia is what is known as project based learning. Gigabit wireless Wireless audio and video
- One of the most beautiful theatre I have ever been in Integrate a wireless projector which displays on a screen of 11.5m Lights, sounds and projector are remotely controlled with iPads
- Our enrollment speaks for itself: we continue to attract many new students We will cap our number of students at 800 within 5 years to keep our community a family Although we are a global school turned to the world, we continue to look at building connection with our community, other schools in Kaohsiung and in the region
- The 1 to 1 environment started when I joined 3 years ago. Because so many families already own laptops, the only model which made sense was a BYOD laptops for students from grade 6 to 12. 2 big challenges: Challenge 1: old campus
- Challenge 2: size of our department: Robert, senior network specialist is the 3rd member of the IT department. There is only 3 of us. Over the past 3 years, we reduced our 12 mono-task servers to virtualize everything on 3 main servers with network access storage. For our WiFi, we built an infrastructure with Cisco APs and radius server. For our services, we are turning to the cloud, which explains our choice of Google Apps.
- It allowed us to grow from 250 concurrent users to almost 1100 devices at peak time We routinely administer independent examination online Open access philosophy where our teachers can access all resources on YouTube, Khan Academy, Google Classrooms
- After 2 years of preparation and pilot tests, we were able to move into the new facilities without a glitch This is our high school meeting on April 17, 3 days before students come back from their spring vacation
- Today, this is what our our 1-to-1 program looks like For the first 2 years, I focused on MS and HS. Today we are focusing on our ES. Chromebooks fit perfectly in our grade 4
- In our new school, we now have a separate server room which we can monitor remotely Our new office is centered around people relationships, not machines. It is built to welcome people so we can work together to improve technology integration.
- We phased out our old Exchange server and moved all our teachers and students to Google Apps for Education The 3 key components we are using are GMail, Google Calendar, and now Google Drive Before any new teacher comes to KAS, their account is created and tutorials are sent to help their transition We now have 844 active users (students, alumni, faculty and staff)
- Google Apps for Education is at the heart of our workflow as a school Google Drive has completely changed the way we collaborate with students, and between teachers This is why you can see that collectively we own almost 700,000 documents. I have no doubt we will break a million by the end of the year.
- When Google Docs launched in 2006, it had very basic editing functions but it was free and you could collaborate. The key component which transformed our work are the sharing features that Google Drive was built around. 75% of the top universities in the US are using Google Apps
- Now only a handful of the old guard are still using Office. Most students do not install is on their computer anymore. We still use it from time to time for publication purposes.
- In spring of 2014, following well established trends in international schools, we purchased 30 iPads Air as a pilot program for our elementary school
- A quick trip to IKEA allowed us to setup a cart to share the iPads throughout all the elementary classes. It is colorful, simple to use and grade 2 students move it between rooms. Our grade 5 was already a 1-to-1 environment with a fleet of 40 MacBooks, but when it came time to turn grade 4 into 1-to-1 we asked the teachers and students what they wanted. G4 teachers were open to the iPad but at the same time, they are asking for a keyboard in order to be as productive as they were before Research: Big management issues with iPads Buzz in IT Directors forums about using cheap laptops instead of tablets ISM pulls all its iPad and replaces them with Chromebooks
- We started to look at the Chromebooks offer in the US
- And settled on a beautiful machine made by Acer
- The main criteria for me was the HD screen
- Because no Chromebooks were available in Taiwan, we had to purchase the machines in the US and bring them back in Taiwan For the licenses, it was much easier thanks to EdSolution we were able to purchase them and deploy them directly
- Launch party with Google Australia
- Students signed responsible use contracts
- Feedback from students: this machine is so cool, I know I brought my own computer, but can I still borrow a Chromebook? Feedback from teachers: this is a no brainer, battery life is extraordinary, machine is very easy to handle Feedback from our resident hacker: he is very unhappy, the machine is locked Feedback from IT department: it is a dream to manage
- A few months later, our choice is confirmed by the trends in schools in the US
- Cloud management Centralized dashboard, accessible from our GAFE admin console
- Device management gives us a quick overview of what is deployed and how to configure their settings We can reuse console licenses. License are not tied to a device. We own a specific number of licenses. When a Chromebook is decommissioned, we can reuse the Management Console license.
- Each item is listed making the inventory dynamic
- We can add custom fields to the description to provide more information for each laptop
- WiFi and proxy settings: in Mac and iPad we need to setup each machine manually. With Chromebook we need to be able to connect to Google and then the console deploys the settings.
- Any change we do is propagated directly from the cloud. Any settings can be deployed automatically and wirelessly (in contrast with iPads or MacBooks where we need to call back every single device).
- Menus are the same as the ones on the machine which means complex adjustments are simple to find and make.
- Cloud Printing: setting up a cloud printer and easily deploy to all without any installation.
- Public Session used for NWEA testing. We limit which website can be accessed by the machine and limit layout and apps. Every setting can be customized: wallpaper, icon, avatar. Deploy user agreement at the beginning of session. This does not require a Google account, anyone can use. Web security controls.
- App deployments is available directly from the console.
- Very limited purchasing options. Dashboard is not necessarily laid out very logically. There are so many options in the console that it is sometimes difficult to navigate. Difficult to establish a clear distinction between user settings and device settings in the console. Google pushes apps but I don’t know of anyone using them.
- Preparing for a Chromebook rollout: GAFE Strong infrastructure, stable WiFi, define your policies Today we are preparing our next purchase of 25 Chromebooks The future at KAS: Cloud computing (picture of IT office) Integrating workflow into the cloud (KiSSFLOW)