I have been seeing all sorts of innovative ways to store and move around Chromebooks as we have been adding them to our school jurisdiction. We are up to 520 machines, and if we don’t spend all of our money on expensive, heavy carts we can get even more! I find carts very inflexible. Cords are often trapped inside and hard to get out, and they are heavy to move around the school. They still feel like a barrier to access technology when students need it for learning. There are simpler, less expensive solutions.
This cube of 8 is from John Lobo at Onoway High School. He used a simple rolling cube, magazine racks and a power bar. The collection of 8 is a useful number for collaboration, and teachers can sign out more than one cube if they need to.
This locking cabinet idea came from Gillian Penny when she was headteacher of Gavinburn Primary near Glasgow, Scotland. They were used as storage for iPads, but this solution would work with many types of devices. The locking cabinet is $130 CDN from Ikea – http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/80100190/ There is magazine holders to hold the devices inside the cabinet. The cabinet also comes in red!
Our grade five classes at Whitecourt Central School in Whitecourt are going 1:1 with Chromebooks. With 112 machines they needed an inexpensive way to store and charge devices, but make them easily accessible. Tim Bowman shared the dish rack solution.
