Ridgewood students power up their new Chromebooks

Ridgewood students power up their new Chromebooks

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014, 9:26 AM
BY JODI WEINBERGER
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

The first thing students at Ridgewood High School (RHS) did with their new Chromebooks was power them up and test out their log-ins and passwords to make sure they worked.

The second? Change the background screen.

Some students gathered their friends and took a selfie with the computer’s built-in camera for a truly personal background, others chose bands or cartoons. Junior Becca Feder laughed before saying what her new background was, but then finally admitted, “SpongeBob.”

According to the district’s manager of information technology Ryan Kenny, the other first priorities for the teens was whether they could remove the hard plastic cover and put stickers and decals on the case – the answer to both was “no.”

All together, 1,717 Chromebooks were handed out to the students this week, each one engraved with “Ridgewood Public Schools” and plastered with a barcode and the student’s name for identification.

The high school used the students’ gym period to hand them out, giving them the time to play around with the device before using it for paper writing and other activities in the classroom.

“Is it charged already?” one student asked as he signed his name indicating that he received the laptop.

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