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About ByteSpeed
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Established in 1999
Intel-based desktops, laptops, and servers
Intel Platinum Technology Provider
Intel Top 25 System Builder
Top Direct Microsoft OEM reseller
Lifetime tech support
50 full-time employees/in-house tech support
30,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility
Customers in 47 of 50 states
Capable of building up to 1,000 machines/daily
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Technology for the Classroom
• What is Technology to Today’s Youth?
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Project-Based Learning
 Students become more self-sufficient and confident
through relevant learning opportunities
 Encourages collaboration with peers and teachers
 Students are more engaged and can create rich and
interactive digital content as part of their learning process
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Differentiated Learning
• Differentiated learning provides a variety of ways for
students to learn new materials
• Differentiated learning strategies encourage growth in
academic subjects, in addition to a child’s intellectual,
psychological, and social development
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Does One Size Fit All?
• Technology Needs of One District Won’t Match the Other
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1:1 Computing
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Increases student engagement
Complements project-based learning
Broadens learning beyond the classroom
Greater student collaboration
Greater teacher awareness of student progress
Prepares for tomorrow’s workplace
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Books?
• Nook for PC
• CK-12 Flex Books
• Kindle eBooks
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Developing a Technology Plan
• Who’s On Your Tech Team?
• Administrators
• Teachers
• Tech Staff
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NEW 10” NL3 Classmate – The Perfect 1:1 Solution!
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Ruggedized w/reinforced corners
Rotating swivel touch screen
Powerful Intel Atom Dual Core
N2600 Processor
Spill resistant features
Up to 9 hours battery life
Protective rubberized surface
Shock mounted hard drive
Retractable carrying handle
Free classroom software ($400 value)
3-Yr Accidental Damage
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10” NL3 Classmate
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ByteSpeed Equipment Protection
• Cost control – minimize unexpected costs
• Peace of mind – relax knowing your laptop is covered
from most everyday accidents
• Supplemental coverage – in addition to standard
3-year laptop warranty on parts and labor
• INCLUDED on ruggedized netbooks
BEP covers:
• Unintentional drops or falls
• Electrical surges
• Liquid spills
• Accidents
NOTE: There is a $100 fee to repair or replace damaged screen
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E-Reader Mode
Easy to control page up/page down
buttons with optimized E-reader
software allows great reading
experience .
Web Camera
Rotatable Camera & one button capture
enables flexible camera usages in multiple
positions.
Digital writing
New ergonomic stylus and
annotation software provides
intuitive writing tools.
And more:
HDD Protection
Using accelerometer to detect vibration /
shocks and auto-park HDD head to minimize
data damage.
•Creative Drawing with professional drawing applications
•Easy Navigation with quick launcher and home button key
•Auto Screen rotation with accelerometer
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Classmate Features the
Intel® Learning Series
• Complete education solution
– Intel reference designs, hardware, software, content,
infrastructure, services, training
• Based on ethnographic research
– 2000+ real classrooms, 36 countries
• Brought to life by an education-specific ecosystem
• Localized to meet geographic & cultural needs
• Engagement at all stages
– Design, deployment, implementation, evaluation,
evolution
• Educational + economic impact
– Prepares students for knowledge-based society &
global economy
– Builds local eLearning economies & national
competitiveness
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Intel® Learning Series Software Suite Feature Overview
Application
Category
Name
Classroom Management
Education Applications
Access Management
Asset Management
Touch Applications
Collaboration, in-class test/quiz, and sharing
Parent and teacher set access policy for client usage
School and client asset protection
Platform Management
Client management, deployment, SW upgrade, patch, back and restore
WebCam Companion
WebCam application, media management, editing, digital archive, annotation
System Recovery Tool
Client Applications
Benefit
System/image backup and recovery
HDD Protection
Enhancing ruggedize, HDD shock protection
Quick Launcher
Quick access to application
E-Reader
Optimized e-reader with multiple formats support, annotation
Pen Input
Handwriting recognition engine, pen input application
Note Taker
Quick Controller
Note taking tool for utilizing handwriting feature
Quick access to system setting
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Education Application – Access Management by Anemng
Value Prop. & Key Features
 Ensure child safe computer environment at home and school
 Parents can monitor children’s computer usage
 Unified policy management & deployment by school server
Key Features:
• Policy management:
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home & school policy
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Policy selection per Windows user account
• Web filtering for unhealthy contents
• Time access to system and network
• Program blocking
• Logging & monitoring
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Education Application – Asset Management by Intel
Value Prop. & Key Features
 Easier asset management for school
 Prevent theft & parts reselling
Key Features:
• Theft deterrence protection
• Boot and time expirations
• Both Client and Server components
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Education Application – Platform Management by Intel
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Value Prop. & Key Features
Bind with school
Server
 Easily manage, deploy & update CMPC clients
throughout an entire school
Key Features:
• Work in Pre-OS environment to ensure a
complete system recovery
• Pro-actively pull image from school server and
install on local machine in wired and wireless
network environment
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Select the image pulled from
server
Setup Network
Connection
Client System Restore
fr. Server
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Download and restore image on
local machine
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Education Application – Platform Management (Cont’)
Intel® Education Administrator
Value Prop. & Key Features
• Deploy Image to Clients
• Deploy patch & apps to Clients
Key Features:
• Source Image to
Server
• Able to quickly deploy image to multiple
CMPC clients in one time to switch or refresh
CMPC system image
• Status report to
server
Usage Model
IEA Server
• Able to perform this feature in both wireless
and wired network
• IT admin can centralized manage
(view/deploy) system patch and application
install or update from school server.
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Common Client Application – WebCam Companion by ArcSoft
Value Prop. & Key Features
 Media capturing and management tool
 Easy video and image content creation
Image/Video
Capture
Key Features:
• Touch Optimized UI
• Photo capture, burst & video capture modes
• Flexible shooting angles (landscape or portrait; camera face
at or against user) supported by rotatable HW camera
• Photo editing
Image Annotation
• Photo annotation (free handwriting/drawing, shapes &
texts)
• Digital Archive - compose captured images & convert to PDF
file that could be read in E-Reader
• Capture image by simply pressing hardware camera key
Digital Archive
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Common Client Application – System Recovery Tool by Intel
Value Prop. & Key Features
 Ease Of Use utility for system backup and restore
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Key Features:
• Standalone image backup and restore tool.
• Easy to create a bootable USB recovery device
• Easy to backup whole image to external storage media
• One-button system recovery
USB Generation Tool
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System Image Recovery
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HDD Protection
HDD Protection (by Intel)
Value Prop. & Key Features
 New software and accelerometer will provide additional
protection to the hard disk drive incurred as a result of
shock, vibration, or accidental fall.
Key Features:
• Motion detection with accelerometer
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Smart HDD reading/writing head positioning to
protect from accidental data lost and disk damage
• Adjustable sensitivity & settings
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Common Client Application – E-Reader by Foxit
Value Prop. & Key Features
 Optimized reader to read and easily manage digital
contents
 One solution supports multiple formats
 use classmate PC as a reading device with specific
hardware reading keys
Key Features:
• Touch optimized E-reader with good reading and
annotation features.
• More mainstream formats support(1)
Foxit Reader
• Book library support
• HW page up/down button support
(1): Supported format: ePub, chm, html, rft, PDF
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Touch Application – Pen Input by Vision Objects
Value Prop. & Key Features
Value Prop:
 Natural handwriting converted in real-time in the active
application
 Flexible writing modes for easy interaction with any
application requiring text entry
Key Features:
• Multiple writing/input modes:
– Natural/ free handwriting
– Soft keyboard (even for passwords)
– Full screen input
Input Modes
• High-quality handwriting recognition (ink to text)
• Intuitive gestures for easy & quick handwriting edition
• Math formula input
Insert space
Go to a new line
Erase text
Editing Gestures
- Cut a word
- Add spaces between
words
• Improved user experience:
– Boost the recognition of your favorite words from the
writing pad
– Write multiple lines
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Touch Application – Note Taker by Vision Objects
Value Prop. & Key Features
Value Prop:
 Organize & search handwritten notes
 Use the screen as paper for quick handwritten notes
capture
 High recognition rate for text, graphics and shapes
Key Features:
• Handwritten note taking
• High-quality ink conversion (character, shape & table
recognition)
• Quick search in ink files
• Notes management & editing
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Touch Application – Quick Controller by Intel
Value Prop. & Key Features
 Quick system setting control for convertible
classmate PC in tablet mode
Quick Controller
Key Features:
• Launched by double pressing HW Home key
• Touch optimized controller
• Easy & quick system setting control:
– System volume
– Screen brightness
– Screen rotation
– Display switch
– Show/hide cursor under tablet mode
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Teacher Resources
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ABC Teach - PreK - 8 materials and creative activities for students and educators. Over 5,000 free documents
- including printable worksheets, interactive activities, theme units, and much more.
Academic Earth – A user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the
ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading
scholars.
Asymptopia - Crossword Builder allows teachers or parents to create unlimited math crosswords, or supply
their own words.
AutoCollage - Have students gather images from the Web or snap their own photos on a subject. Then, they
can create a unique piece of art using this free collage-making tool.
Bing Search and Bing Maps - Bing Maps offer breathtaking, bird's eye views of the world that can enhance
any project.
Bing Translator- Easily converts what you have written into nearly any language you need. Cut and paste the
text into the area indicated, and click Translate.
California Learning Resource Network - Free digital textbook initiative that provides educators with a "onestop" resource for info needed for State Board of Education academic content standards
Celestia - The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
Childsplay - Educational activities for young children for home, kindergartens and pre-schools.
CK-12 FlexBooks - Customizable, free, curriculum-aligned content for K-12 designed to decrease textbook
materials costs in the United States and around the world.
Connexions - View and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be
organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.
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Creative Commons Index of OER - Introduces the scope of OER and the organizations cultivating its
increasingly vital role in opening higher education up to the greatest number of people worldwide.
Digital Literacy Curriculum - Classroom-ready digital-rights curriculum - great for anyone with basic reading
skills who wants to learn the fundamentals of computer technology.
Edmodo - A safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access
homework, grades and school notices.
Education World - A resource where teachers can gather and share ideas, including lesson plans,
information for educators, and information on how to integrate technology in the classroom.
Flashcards – Play with online flashcards. It keeps track of what you know and uses that information to
determine which card to show you next. It's memory optimization based on science.
Flat World Knowledge - Remixable textbooks by expert authors, free online and affordable offline.
Foxit - Solutions for reading, editing, creating, organizing, and securing PDF documents and forms.
Customers choose Foxit products since they are fast, affordable, secure, and easy to deploy.
Gcompris - An educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some
of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.
Georgia Virtual Learning - Content is available for anyone to view. Courses are divided into modules and are
aligned with the Georgia Performance Standards.
GIMP - image manipulation software for GNU/Linux and UNIX. It is a raster editor, which means that it
performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor.
Google Apps for Education - a broad IT solution that schools can use to bring communication and
collaboration tools to the entire academic community for free.
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Immune Attack/Educational 3D Biology Video Game – A high tech 3D computer game that teaches how the
human body and the immune system work. Great game for high school science students.
Intel AppUp - A centralized catalog of thousands of netbook apps in one convenient location for education,
social, entertainment, communications, etc.
Intel Free Teaching Resources – Free, easily integrated tools and teaching resources to support collaborative
student-centered learning.
iTALC – A powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network
in several ways, including seeing what's going on in computer-labs, remote control computers to help other
people, show a demo, lock workstations for moving undivided attention to teacher, and much more.
Kahn Academy – Supplies a free online collection of 2,400+ lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube
teaching math, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics and computer science.
Learning Games for Kids – Free educational games for preschool and elementary school kids that help build
skills in math, language, science, social studies, and more.
Lily Pond - An automated engraving system that formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a
friendly syntax for its input files. It is Free Software (open source).
Little Wizard – Development environment for children to learn about the elements of computer languages.
Math Worksheet Generator - Easily create your own math worksheets with practice problems to give your
students. Generates math problems based on a sample and then creates a worksheet to distribute.
Memory Lifter - A free flash card program that presents flash cards using various sensory outputs and using
a special display technique that enhances a student's ability to remember.
MERLOT - Online learning materials, web sites and educational digital libraries.
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Microsoft Mathematics - Helps students visualize and see mathematical concepts as never before, including
step-by-step instructions and easy to understand explanations of fundamental concepts.
Microsoft Office Training - Free training courses and tutorials, as well as training roadmaps that show which
courses are available and offers information on the training.
Microsoft Photosynth - Students can explore famous places in the world with cinematic quality using this
virtual, visual three-dimensional tour.
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) – A free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the
undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
Moodle Exchange - Shares Moodle courses and other content useful for Moodle teachers.
Moodle Share - Community of Moodlers sharing their Moodles, Moodle Sites, and Moodle Lessons.
Mouse Mischief - Integrate multiple choice, polling and true/false questions into your lessons with this free
add-in for PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010 that lets students use mice to answer.
National Repository of Online Courses - A growing library of high-quality online course content for students
and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement.
OCW Search – A search engine that indexes the OpenCourseWare content so you can find courses faster.
OER Commons - As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with
resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing.
Office Add-ins - Office add-ins allows you to add academic-specific features and functions to Word,
PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote, such as making presentations interactive, graph equations, and more.
Ohio Treasure Chest – Thousands of high-quality, teacher-reviewed, interactive, and free websites aligned
directly to the Ohio Academic Content Standards in math, science, language, and social studies.
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Open Course Library – A repository of course modules that anyone can download, customize and use.
Open High School of Utah - Unique to OHSU is our commitment to share the curriculum we have developed
as an open educational resource.
Open Learn - OpenLearn gives you free access to learning materials from The Open University
Open Learning Initiative - Offer these courses to your students. You can customize them to suit their needs.
Open Michigan – A University of Michigan initiative that enables faculty, students, and others to share their
educational resources and research with the global learning community.
Open Source Physics Project - Open Source Physics Project offers curriculum resources that engage students
in physics, computation, and computer modeling.
Open Textbooks - Open Textbooks allows you to view over 500 open textbooks in many subject areas.
OpenCourseWare Consortium - A collaboration of higher education institutions and associated
organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a
shared model.
Photo Story 3 for Windows XP -This free, downloadable program has tools to enhance, crop, and rotate
your digital photos, and bring them to life with music and pictures.
Photosynth – A powerful set of tools for capturing and viewing the world in 3D.
Rekentest - An arithmetic quiz program that tests your skills in operations such as addition and subtraction,
the multiplication tables, decimals, money problems, percentages and fractions.
Seterra - A very nice, and free, geography teaching package. Covers all parts of the world. Includes quizzes
and map exercises. Runs in several different languages. Each exercise has a high score list.
Small Basic – A simplified version of Microsoft's Visual Basic, suitable for kids and beginners
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Songsmith - Bring out the musical creativity in your students. Choose a style-from pop to jazz or R&B.
Student sing into a PC microphone & Songsmith will generate music to match his or her voice.
SoupToys.com - Takes the concept of physics and transforms it into a software tool that lets children play
around with objects that interact with the world around it in a manner that obeys all of the laws of physics.
Stellarium – A free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what
you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors.
Stykz - Free Stick Animation Software - Create your own stories in stick animation pictures. Add people,
animals, letters and objects and move and bend them a little in each frame to easily build an entire movie!
Sugar - Promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Children and their teachers have the
opportunity to use computation on their own terms; they are free to reshape, reinvent, and reapply both
software and content into powerful learning activities.
Sumo Paint - A full featured photo editing / painting application, which works right in your favorite web
browser! Create, share, remix, explore, comment, rate and fave the artwork of its members.
Textbook Revolution - A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by
teachers and professors.
Tipp10 – A simple but effective free typing tutor. It logs and analyzes a whole list of detailed information
that can help you understand where you're making most of your mistakes and how you can improve.
Tux Paint – A free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. It combines an easy-to-use
interface, fun sound effects, and a cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
TuxMath – An educational arcade game based on the classic arcade game "Missile Command” in which the
character Tux must defend his cities by solving math problems.
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Vision Learning - Vision Learning is an award-winning collection of peer-reviewed learning modules written
by professional educators and scientists.
We Teach We Learn - A Student Created Content Course Book - A neat fill in the blank book great for
elementary, Special Ed and/or ELL.
Windows 7 Training - Find out how to get up and running with Windows 7, and browse the most-viewed
trouble shooting articles.
Windows Academic Program - Provides universities with curriculum materials, Windows kernel source
code, and a project environment for teaching operating system principles using Windows.
Windows Live Movie Maker – The fast, easy way to turn photos and video clips into great-looking movies
and slide shows you can share in class or on the Web.
Windows Live SkyDrive - Gain access to 25 gigabytes (GB) of free, online storage. Use it for a student or
teacher workgroup to upload and share documents in one central place, rather than trying to track them in
e-mails. Store your photos and files, and access them with a password.
Wisc-Online - Wisc-Online is a digital library of Web-based learning objects.
Worldwide Telescope - A free tool with imagery from the world's best ground and space-based telescopes.
It not only offers guided tours from interesting places in the sky, but also enables students to explore the
night sky by panning and zooming to distant planets and galaxies.
Zoodles – A simple, safe, and free web browser for young children that offers a virtual toy box full of
educational, entertaining sites that are age- and interest-specific.
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