Infrastructure Technology Solutions (ITS), an Eastern Iowa Managed Services provider, was awarded the winning proposal for hardware and support related to Harmony Community School District’s 1:1 laptop initiative. Harmony is currently a consulting and hardware client of ITS, and will now be tapping additional ITS resources for wireless infrastructure, storage solutions, firewall/content filtering and laptops […]
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1:1 Devices in Iowa Schools
General Trends The early adopters of 1:1 initiatives in Iowa are nearing ends of leases/life cycles in 2012 or 2013, and several other districts are beginning their rollouts. Our service calls, consultation visits and conference sessions have provided us with keen insight on the questions, concerns and preferences that many Iowa technology directors and administrators […]
Evaluating 1:1 Initiatives
I was talking with a school administrator recently that is retiring from his Superintendent’s position this June. Earlier this year, his School Board had been discussing and planning a 1:1 laptop initiative. The Superintendent is tech-saavy; he can knowledgeably reboot servers and run commands from terminal, but also knows how to make technology work as […]