| August 1 |
Review and revise parent and student
contracts for this school year. |
| August 5 |
Distribute parent
contracts as part
of enrollment packet (parents need to complete these before
they can pick up student schedules. |
| August 5 |
Hand out student cantracts and have them sign and return
them. |
| August 5 |
Charge all student handhelds. |
| August 6 |
Decide on the set
of software to be installed on all student
handhelds and set up one master student handheld with all
programs and settings. |
| August 7-8 |
Use SD
Deploy to image the master handheld setup
to all student handhelds. |
| August 10 |
Assign usernames to all student handhelds (we do this by
hotsyncing each handheld and assigning usernames through
Palm Desktop. |
| August 22-23 |
Distribute carrying bags to students and begin the egg
activity (students must carry a hardboiled agg in their carrying
case for 48 hours without breaking it before they are given
a handheld). |
| August 28-29 |
Distribute handhelds to students (for at least a week,
students leave their handhelds at school, where they are
charged overnight). |
