Sunday, April 7, 2013
After being plagued with Internet outages, the district will now have three Internet service portals, so that if one goes down, the others will kick in, and Internet service will continue uninterrupted at Maine East, West and South High Schools.
Maine Township District 207 High School board members okayed funds Monday to improve Internet service in the district's three high schools: Maine East, Maine South and Maine West. The improvements should address both some recent Internet outages and Internet service slowdowns. They will also set the stage for the fall semester debut of Google Chromebooks, which incoming freshmen will use to read their texts, write papers, do research and more. "For about $1,300 (more) per month, we're greatly increasing our (Internet) capacity and increasing our redundancy and reliability," said Dr. Hank Thiele, the district's chief technology officer, after the meeting. Earlier: Chromebooks plan raises concerns Because federal funding covers 49 percent…
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Parent, student urge Maine Township High Schools to reconsider using Google Chromebooks. The Internet was down at Maine South for 5 days recently, and in such a case, no learning would happen, they said.
Jon and James Dombro are worried that District 207 students might not be able to study next year if the Internet goes down. Citing the fact that the Internet was down, or had interruptions, at Maine South High School four days last week and was down again Monday, they said this was a real concern. James, a sophomore at Maine South, and his father Jon Dombro addressed District 207 board members at their meeting Monday. Earlier: District 207 replacing texts with Chromebooks When Internet service failed last week and this week, the Chromebooks would have been rendered useless, James Dombro said. Devices need Internet, and Internet has been down "Right now the Internet (at Maine South) can’t seem to support the devices," said James Dombro…
Monday, February 11, 2013
Maine South, West and East freshman and sophomores will be toting laptops, not textbooks, next year. The district says it will save money in the long run.
As other neighboring school districts have done, the Maine Township High School District 207 board voted Monday to move from textbooks to Google Chromebooks, which are a type of laptop computer. The Chromebooks will cost each student a technology fee of $319, plus an optional insurance charge. However, over a three-year span, that would result in cost savings of $225 over what each student would normally pay in textbook charges, according to a D-207 presentation. Students who will be freshman and sophomores in the 2013-14 school year will be the first to get the Chromebooks. Juniors will be added in the 2014-15 school year and all students will have them by the 2015-16 school year. “The Education Committee supports the proposal because…
Caroline9087
9:17 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
false. I believe kids will have a harder time working on those dinky devices. and more devices will add more strain and can potentially bring other things ONTO the network its self. What about managing? If I as a student buy the laptop south has no jurisdiction managing my device. They have the right to manage their own network and the devices using it. But not my own device. Only my connection … more ›