Your Laptop License

Participating in the 2-day Boot Camp experience and then completing all your laptop Boot Camp tasks earns you your Laptop License. Your Laptop License certifies that you are able to take full, 24 hour responsibility for the proper use and care of your school laptop and begin to take it home.

Of course, going through Boot Camp and earning your Laptop License does not mean that you know everything there is to know about how to use your laptop to be a highly productive and successful student. Your Laptop License means you have completed the first step on this journey.

Additional Badges

Throughout the year you are going to have many opportunities to expand your technology skills and use the apps on your laptop to complete numerous assignments and create many marvellous projects. You can use these to earn additional badges/stickers to highlight your learning. Collect ALL FOUR and stick them on your laptop bag!

Creativity

This badge recognizes a digital product that showcases creativity. This could be making an original piece of work that makes extensive use of a creative app like iMovie, GarageBand, or PhotoShop.

Critical Thinking

This badge recognizes a digital product or problem-solving process that showcases critical (computational) thinking. This could be a coding project, working with data in a spreadsheet or involvement in an Hour of Code activity.

Communication

Need to spread a powerful message or share your research? This badge recognizes the effective and appropriate use of a digital communication tool to share a concept, idea or product with the wider community.

Keyboarding

Fast and accurate text input is a huge asset in your digital toolbox. This badge recognizes the achievement of a 40+ words per minute / 95% accuracy typing score in an approved testing event. If your keyboarding isn't strong this is one skill to focus on early.

Losing your license!

We all have the potential to make mistakes, either by lack of thinking or by making poor choices.

Actions that might cause you to receive some kind of disciplinary action, loss of 'take home' privilege or the complete loss of use of your laptop:

not having your laptop protected by the hardcase AND padded bag
leaving your laptop unattended/misplacing your laptop through carelessness
downloading and using torrenting/P2P software to pirate games, music, movies, etc
sharing inappropriate content/malware/nuisance scripts to others
disrupting others with unnecessary chats
playing games during class time
interfering with another student's laptop
purposely damaging a school laptop

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