It's almost time!

As I sit here and try to work on my grad school work, I can't stop thinking about the fact that in one week, I will get to begin teaching with Chromebooks in my classroom. I'm very excited and it will be difficult to reign myself in and keep from trying to do everything all at once. Starting tomorrow, I will have students. They will not have the Chromebooks yet. On Tuesday, September 2nd, they will receive their Chromebooks only if they come to the roll out that night. I am hoping that all students will be able to come so that I can start teaching students how to use them on Wednesday.

I say that I'm going to teach students how to use them but what I actually mean is teach them the rules for appropriate use in the classroom. They have to learn the procedures that I will have in place in the classroom. I am also feeling a little bit of anxiety. To me, this feels like a huge thing. I have to have procedures in place for these Chromebooks and monitoring student use. I have never experienced this before so I don't really know for sure what will work and what won't. Some of it will be trial and error.

Over the next few days, I will be talking to students about the Chromebooks and hopefully getting them excited so that they remind their parents to take them to the roll out night. I will also be making some decisions for where they will keep the Chromebook in the classroom when it is not being used. What happens if they forget to charge it at night? There are so many things that are popping into my head. I think what I will do is have the students write down a question that they have on a card (since we won't have the Chromebooks yet I won't be able to do this on Padlet) and then I will go through them and work with my students to answer the questions that they have the next day. I will need some time to make sure that I can answer the questions before discussing them in class.

This is going to be a great opportunity for my students and the teachers in my district. I am looking forward to going through the process, reflecting on, and sharing my experience.