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We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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We did this a number of years ago for our Digital Darkroom.

We replaced the lab of computers, with a lab of very nice monitors Apple monitors. When students come in to work on their digital media they connect their laptop to the monitor, run the laptop and monitors as a dual display set-up. This way they can, like professional media editors, use the one display (laptop) for all of the application palettes and the larger monitor for their digital workspace.

Included in the room are numerous large-scale printers, a display with an AppleTV for wireless projection, and other needed peripherals. 

I can look to get you a picture of the space.

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William Stites
Director of Technology
Montclair Kimberley Academy
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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That's an interesting setup.  Do you have BYOD or 1:1?  Are all students bringing their own Mac devices into the lab?

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Susan Fuhs
Director of Information Technology Services
Norfolk Academy
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-11-2022 09:28 AM
From: William Stites
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We did this a number of years ago for our Digital Darkroom.

We replaced the lab of computers, with a lab of very nice monitors Apple monitors. When students come in to work on their digital media they connect their laptop to the monitor, run the laptop and monitors as a dual display set-up. This way they can, like professional media editors, use the one display (laptop) for all of the application palettes and the larger monitor for their digital workspace.

Included in the room are numerous large-scale printers, a display with an AppleTV for wireless projection, and other needed peripherals. 

I can look to get you a picture of the space.

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William Stites
Director of Technology
Montclair Kimberley Academy

Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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We provide all of our students (4-12) and employees with identical Apple hardware.  This equipment is refreshed every three years, and we update the Digital Darkroom to match if/when necessary.

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William Stites
Director of Technology
Montclair Kimberley Academy
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-14-2022 09:42 AM
From: Susan Fuhs
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

That's an interesting setup.  Do you have BYOD or 1:1?  Are all students bringing their own Mac devices into the lab?

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Susan Fuhs
Director of Information Technology Services
Norfolk Academy

Original Message:
Sent: 03-11-2022 09:28 AM
From: William Stites
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We did this a number of years ago for our Digital Darkroom.

We replaced the lab of computers, with a lab of very nice monitors Apple monitors. When students come in to work on their digital media they connect their laptop to the monitor, run the laptop and monitors as a dual display set-up. This way they can, like professional media editors, use the one display (laptop) for all of the application palettes and the larger monitor for their digital workspace.

Included in the room are numerous large-scale printers, a display with an AppleTV for wireless projection, and other needed peripherals. 

I can look to get you a picture of the space.

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William Stites
Director of Technology
Montclair Kimberley Academy

Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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Original Message:
Sent: 3/11/2022 9:29:00 AM
From: William Stites
Subject: RE: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We did this a number of years ago for our Digital Darkroom.

We replaced the lab of computers, with a lab of very nice monitors Apple monitors. When students come in to work on their digital media they connect their laptop to the monitor, run the laptop and monitors as a dual display set-up. This way they can, like professional media editors, use the one display (laptop) for all of the application palettes and the larger monitor for their digital workspace.

Included in the room are numerous large-scale printers, a display with an AppleTV for wireless projection, and other needed peripherals. 

I can look to get you a picture of the space.

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William Stites
Director of Technology
Montclair Kimberley Academy
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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Original Message:
Sent: 3/11/2022 9:29:00 AM
From: William Stites
Subject: RE: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We did this a number of years ago for our Digital Darkroom.

We replaced the lab of computers, with a lab of very nice monitors Apple monitors. When students come in to work on their digital media they connect their laptop to the monitor, run the laptop and monitors as a dual display set-up. This way they can, like professional media editors, use the one display (laptop) for all of the application palettes and the larger monitor for their digital workspace.

Included in the room are numerous large-scale printers, a display with an AppleTV for wireless projection, and other needed peripherals. 

I can look to get you a picture of the space.

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William Stites
Director of Technology
Montclair Kimberley Academy
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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Hi Denise.
I like the idea of a design studio, vs. a lab, that is as device agnostic and agile as possible. This includes wireless interactive mobile displays (that can serve as table-top devices), comfortable seating, everything on wheels (I know, potential mayhem - case for student ownership of space), VR stations etc. Allow space for analog as well as digital design iteration. Provide plenty of power stations. The space is what the user (student or teacher) makes it.

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Jennifer Lamkins, Ed.D.
Coordinator of Member and Technology Support Services
she/her
Northwest Association of Independent Schools
5001 California Ave. SW (Ste. 112), Seattle, WA 98136
Office: 206-323-6137
Direct: 206-323-7005
jlamkins@nwais.org
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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A couple of years ago, I redesigned a fixed desktop computer lab with a mobile cart of 25 Macbook Pros  ( 25 =max class size), which are used for computer programming, robotics, 3d Design, yearbook, multimedia etc.  We loaded Indesign and the Adobe suite of tools as these machines. We also added extra monitors around the school to connect to and work with so students can sue multiple screens. We took a couple less used walls and painted them for green screen video capture.  Since our classrooms were heavily scheduled we focused on functionality, capacity and mobility. The school was a 1:1 BYOD laptop school but most students may not have machines with the capacity to handle these needs but this seems to work. We replaced the cart machines every 2 years to keep them fresh and sold them as used in the community. This machines were managed by our MDM solution. Hope this helps.

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Vincent Jansen
Convergence.Tech
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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One thing to consider for anyone dealing with these sorts of multimedia labs is that there will probably be a need to access the Adobe Creative Cloud apps. So in a dedicated desktop environment with shared computers you would need to opt for the Adobe Shared Device licensing system, which is different from their Named User Licensing system and has a different pricing structure as well as administration. 

For us, we are 1:1 laptop (Apple) for all our students in Gr 9-12 and so it is far easier for us just to deploy Adobe CC through the Named User system to their laptops. We found with the dedicated lab machines we had, it was too much work (and money) also administering the shared device licensing just for the lab machines. So we are in the process of testing a similar approach to what William Stites mentioned where we have external displays with attached keyboard, mouse, SD card readers, and Wacom tablet. The kids can bring their laptop in and plug in with a Thunderbolt 3 connection to the monitor. 

I always liked the concept of dedicated multimedia lab computers, but since Adobe changed their licensing scheme it really forced us to re-think that concept unfortunately.

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Trevor Hoyt
Director of Technology
Durham Academy
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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Original Message:
Sent: 3/22/2022 9:07:00 AM
From: Trevor Hoyt
Subject: RE: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

One thing to consider for anyone dealing with these sorts of multimedia labs is that there will probably be a need to access the Adobe Creative Cloud apps. So in a dedicated desktop environment with shared computers you would need to opt for the Adobe Shared Device licensing system, which is different from their Named User Licensing system and has a different pricing structure as well as administration. 

For us, we are 1:1 laptop (Apple) for all our students in Gr 9-12 and so it is far easier for us just to deploy Adobe CC through the Named User system to their laptops. We found with the dedicated lab machines we had, it was too much work (and money) also administering the shared device licensing just for the lab machines. So we are in the process of testing a similar approach to what William Stites mentioned where we have external displays with attached keyboard, mouse, SD card readers, and Wacom tablet. The kids can bring their laptop in and plug in with a Thunderbolt 3 connection to the monitor. 

I always liked the concept of dedicated multimedia lab computers, but since Adobe changed their licensing scheme it really forced us to re-think that concept unfortunately.

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Trevor Hoyt
Director of Technology
Durham Academy
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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We replaced our 14-station Upper School Digital Media Lab (previously with 27" iMacs) in Summer 2020 with Dell U2721DE 27" USB-C docking monitors, with each station having a keyboard, mouse, drawing tablet, and wired ethernet connection.  6 of the stations had Mac Minis connected by default, and we have since added two more; the others are ready for students to plug in their USB-C devices (we have BYOD, so students may be using PCs, Macs, or Chromebooks).  We made this change in concert with a move to Adobe CC named-user licensing, so students can install CC on their personal devices if they have a PC or Mac.  We have since also deployed CC shared-device licenses to Citrix for students with Chromebooks.

This change was already planned for Summer 2020 but of course COVID was in full swing, so the lab didn't get used that much that year.  I discovered midway through this past school year that the lab was in a serious state of disrepair and was not being used effectively.  Things that seemed to be major stumbling blocks were people unplugging cabling and peripherals (e.g. keyboard and mouse, USB-C cable, ethernet, specialized scanners) from the docking monitors, thus rendering them not as useful, and a general lack of training/perspective amongst the faculty who were using the lab (we had planned out the lab with a teacher who was at the time art department chair, but then he ceded the chair to someone else and didn't really communicate well about the lab's new setup).  I believe I have solved the unplugging issue with some strategic ziptying, and I wrote up FAQ sheets on how to use the docking setups and do basic troubleshooting, but I think I will have to provide a more in-depth training to the teachers in order to make sure they are more effectively used this coming school year.

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David Fulton-Howard
Technical Support Manager
McDonogh School
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2022 10:58 AM
From: Denise Musselwhite
Subject: Re-Imagining Instructional Labs

We are in ongoing conversations about re-envisioning the traditional iMac lab full of 20 desktops when students show up every single day with their own Laptop device in their backpacks. 

The lab we are looking at is primarily used as a multimedia lab that supports a budding and young design and innovation curriculum grades 6-12.  We want to get away from the mindset that we have to replace the desktops every X years and instead re-imagine the lab.  If you've done this and have pictures, ideas, or successes you want to share, we could use them.  We've been trying to turn this semi-truck for a few years with little to no success but we are there again.   

The school will maintain two other dedicated iMac labs for Comp Sci, Programming and Robotics and the other to support newspaper design and photography, and film support. 

Thanks in advance for your insights and knowledge sharing.
#TeachingandLearning

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Denise Musselwhite
Chief Information Officer & ATLIS Board Member
Trinity Preparatory School
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