Our Lady of the Assumption - Lab makeover with Chromebooks

Previously an 'under the desk' install of 'black boxes' (which could really WRECK your knees... student OR adults like me... we had all that stuff removed and laid out the computer tables around the outside edge of the room for better oversight and a more open and clean feel.  No more students tripping over one another between rows of chairs, etc.  Principal Gerrie Desio was right in there with us, cleaning, rearranging, managing - throughout the entire process and we think it came out great!

So... before is shown here - with the usual compliment of keyboards, mice, LCDs, computers, headphones... all tangled into macrame with one another.  This made for a very HOT and uncomfortable room much of the time with all those PCs generating heat - and noise.  Notice the countertop to the right in the picture - which is the back of the lab.  We had to tear that out to place the nice computer desks in its place and we moved the cabinet and shelving in back as well.

Okay... so here we have the end result.  A nice quiet, clean and spacious lab with Chromebooks!  Each student keeps their own earbuds in a basket in the lab - so no more bulky germ magnet coily cord messes that were previously in use.  No mice... kids are fine with touchpads - especially on the Chromebooks and so this leaves nothing but the Chromebook and the small power cable that is hidden in the back of each desk.  You can't get much cleaner than that!  That's my granddaughter Audrey in the foreground.  She came with me to the open house on Jan-25-2015 and demonstrated ABCMouse on the Chromebook for a few of the parents that came through.  She had just turned 3 years old... and she uses the Chromebook at home all the time... and the tablets and phones.  What-EVer!... they're kids... they're sponges!  It's the teachers we need to get up to speed!   ;-)