I'm associated with so that's how we got our Chromebooks. Just sharing that with you. There is grant money out there hopefully for a lot of you in various states but that's how we were able to pay for our Chromebooks. We also have an iPad that we use, as I said earlier, for time management strategy. We will go over the app that we use, there are pros and cons but mostly pros. We bought nine Fitbits that we use, we will go over the pricing as far as that goes but they are invaluable method that we use for our interns as well as staff members too. Kalahari was nice enough to purchase the last four. So everybody was able to have them. Next part is our intern Gmail accounts. We set them up first thing whether interns arrive here in August, of the last week of August, we had our interns set up Gmail accounts a couple of them had them but the majority did not. Some
know their password and their user name and we have it on record in case they forget it so we have that stored away in case they do come in and forget it. Knock on wood, all our interns do remember their name and password. We do have folders for our interns and right on the inside of the folder we have an index card with user name and password on their folders they are locked up in the closet after instruction but are there each morning if they need it but this year after the second week they were able to utilize their emails without that. We store interns information, in case we forget it as I said. But we also share log in information with the parents. We also try to encourage parents to try to get some Gmail accounts as well. Some of the document that we share, sometimes might only be compatible with Gmail accounts throughout the year.
These are the interns Gmail account benefits. It really helps interns with their self-adequacy skills, one intern sometimes gets anxious, his teacher works with him and let us know how he's doing. So rather than Dawn or me explain it we have the interns themselves reach out to their case managers and stuff like that. That teaches them self-adequacy skills because when June comes around we won't be there every day so we're trying to display that stuff for the intern so they're able to communicate that. What we do is we help the interns create resumes, share documents as I said earlier, write letters and we do that throughout the school year if the interns are working on anything, during instruction time, all that stuff is going to be saved right in the Gmail account so once they log in, you go down to documents and whatever device they're using and that stuff will save automatically. Because
paid they can pull up the progress monitoring, the data of that intern, so it's invaluable for keeping everyone on the same page perspective. DAWN DIAGNAULT: We have a unique payment point system for the agency to get paid for the skills trainers services so we need to notify OVR at different increments where the intern is at such as the start date, the program they're enrolled the day they attended the first session, the date of first rotation, and what they do, and rotations and placement, and 90 days successful time on the job. So all of those increments are in our shared drive, it's an easy way to track it and you can just click on it to open it to see where they're at. MASON MESSINGER: Okay. Next slide please. Thanks Jasmina. This was using the computer during our hour of instruction. We do have our interns use the
and can you use it. It's still recording the movement. Exactly, Mason. MASON MESSINGER: Okay. JASMINA SISIRAK: Any other questions? Here is another one. Do Chromebooks have features that others do not have? MASON MESSINGER: For my experience using the Chromebooks, I guess you need other the Chromebooks, they have been very good using the Gmail, everything associated with Gmail that we're using here. So I would think everything that we do need, they have been very valuable. Obviously they're not like an Apple product or anything like that but then you are paying so much more for it. For the price Chromebooks do have a lot of features that I do like. They're very user friendly I would say. It doesn't have all of the great Apple features, but then you're paying a whole lot more money for that if that