CHROMEBOOK TRIAL IN ROOM 3

In my class we were lucky enough to have an opportunity to trial a pod of 20 Chromebooks on loan to us by Noel Leeming group.

This page highlights the two week journey utilising Chromebooks as part of our learning: As a teacher I found that the pros heavily out weighed the cons however, it would have been greatly beneficial if I had some form of professional development using google Apps and Chromebooks prior to the trial.

I felt having two weeks with the Chromebooks was fairly short to utilise effectively. Below is a short PMI chart highlighting our experience with the Chromebooks.

The need to become efficient using IT

PLUS                                             MINUS                                             INTERESTING

The start up time was less         The lack of knowledge I had going         Google classroom APP

than 7 seconds in most cases.    into this trial.

                                                                                                                   Sharing and

There was no need to update     The need to find plugs for all 20             management

anything like Adobe, Java etc.   Chromebooks at the one time.           

                                                                                                                    How are other

Everything would update on     Having the students working                    schools using them

boot up.                                     collaboratively on one document

                                                  often caused issues                                  The need to develop

Lightweight and easily                                                                               confidence and

portable meant the                   The school would need to purchase           efficiency using I.T

Chromebooks were great in       key locks for them rather than the

MLEs.                                        coded locks.

The students were very           Ideally if we were to get these

enthusiastic to use them in      across the school a ratio of 1:2  

their learning.                          Chromebooks could be costly

Working together on an assignment - Jigsaw learning

They held a charge for a

significant amount of time.

Students could save work in

their own folders and easily

access it to continue working

at a later time.

Having signed up to both

Mathletics and Reading

Eggspress – two online tools

easily accessed on

Chromebooks.

Storage online means no files/

folders to slow down the

hardware. There is little to no

chance of viruses as it is

based on Linux and using

Apps.  Also very easy to reset

Chromebook.

A very focused learning

Environment when using them.

An engaged class, some using chromebooks as part of rotation.

Working on writing on a bean bag MLE

An engaged e-learning classroom