Paradise ValleyUnified School District

Phoenix, ArizonaJeff Billings

GoogleTalk and WebEx

PVUSD Numbers

•34,000 students (K12)

•Northern Phoenix - 100 square miles

•45 schools - 13 Title

•4,200 employees

•16,000 computing devices - Mac, Chromebook, iPad, Windows, Linux

•88% of high school population has high bandwidth at home

Gooogle and GoogleTalk

•pvLearners - brand of Google Apps for EDU

•Four year evolution - first year for all students AND employees - unique, managed accounts - 50,000

•Core Google Apps - GoogleTalk, Blogger, Picassa, YouTube, Docs, gMail, Calendar, etc..

•Only system used for student/teacher online communication and collaboration

•Hosted in Cloud

GoogleTalk Interface

•all students, teachers, administrators

•web browser - lower TCO

•waiting for Google+

General Google Apps Use

GoogleTalk Use

• Intra and Inter school student use - within bells and at home

•Mandarin - Practice with a Partner

•ELL - Elementary students helping English proficiency of high school students

•Music assessments

•Student/Teacher/Administrator

•Departments

WebEx

•Collaborative Suite of Audio/Video and Content

•Hosted in Cloud

•Various Centers - Meeting/Training/Event/Support

•Recording, Annotation, Break Out Rooms, etc.

•Content shared through computer, iPad, doc camera

•PVUSD IT “passes the ball” to support and manage

Host (Computer)

iPhone Participant

iPad ParticipantCius Participant

IT in WebEx 7am to 7pm•support/JIT•“pass the ball”•concurrent licensing

One Touch

•WebEx and TelePresence integration

•8 CTS units

•12 Cius tablets

•720 resolution from TPx unit to WebEx participants

NHS Student WebEx Training

•OneTouch (WebEx and TelePresence) to train on WebEx for tutoring

General WebEx Uses•NHS Student Tutoring - w/o OneTouch

•Hybrid PD courses - all IT courses - 50/50 split

•7am to 7pm support and one on one JIT

•Gifted, 4th grade classroom, integrating with pvONLINE

•Events - 50 to 250

• Just starting with Training Center - advanced tools