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All this sounds good. I like the idea of ​​digital leaders. It is a way to further expand training time and reforce chain ITS This is the weakest part of end users.
Save money using double-sided printing only in black and white fonts, changing the toner usage percentage.

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BYOD is the way to reduce the ICT cost :
Dont't ask to schollto buy it and to repair or updated.

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We are using NUC computers, much cheaper than regular ones, but I think BYOD would be a great money saving project

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BYOD for students and teachers as an obligation are out of question. Most do not have the economic power to do so.It would be an aggravating factor for social exclusion that is already. We have a limited quantity paper that each teacher can use per year. Some teachers are using Google Forms for some kind of tests instead of printing them. I think is good idea (and I will try to implement in my school) use narrow margins and a eco-friendly font.

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The archives in the clouds help us in organizing the activities and easy return for evaluation. Before we used DVD to record, today we create folders with specific dates and names making the work faster for everyone.

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Or Byods or computers with free software or chromebooks are a solution for the approach of cheapening. But is it the same with teacher training by continually introducing changes in software used?

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In my school we took  some computers from other public offices which renewed their instruments; we installed open source operating sistem as linux;  we don't use paper, when it is possible, so we have reduced the cost of paper and ink; we have  had new computers and smartboard collecting stamps to supermarkets. The new challeger is introduce the practice of BYOD.

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I like the idea of Digital Leaders for reducing ICT costs. In my school, there is a strict evidence of paper and ink consumption.

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The provided solutions for saving are interesting, however, I think that this information needs to be shared with a wider circle of staff and not just ICT administrators.

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​In my school the documents for students and their families are available online (school-website or "registro elettronico"). A little number of teachers use the cloud to share documents and this isn't good.

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I agree with Jalena and think that principals need to change their mind and let children bring their devices into school.

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The idea of
Digital Leaders is really interesting because in this way students are also involved. Some tips in video are usefull: change the margins to narrow, use fonts aren't ink-heavy and produce two documents side by side

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Excellent ideas! I will change the normal.dot first thing tomorrow morning. In my school we ask private companies for donations and we try to involve the students' parents into helping whenever needed.

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I think that use of a free cloud based technologies and BYOD is a great possibility to save money.

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Good ideas for saving money (and resources, time,...). I've just talked a couple of Padlets ago about using free-software (free, for having no prize, and free, for having the free philosophy), because it makes that old devices can come to live again, we haven't to pay for licenses, etc.
Another thing that I like is to have a user/password configuration on the photocopiers and printers (for example wiht a previous amount granted to each teacher or department).

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The idea of Digital leaders is really interesting because in this way students are also involved and, what's more, they even learn things that could help them in the future. Regarding the savings, our school does have a technician..even if he is not always able to solve all the problems and we also don't use such a great equipment because the budget is limited.

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Personal work when everybody has gone from school.
Buying refurbished PCs and ask for donations for  H/W from organizations and companies.

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tips:

margins/ fonts for photocopying

gsuite

chromebooks- little maintenance

digital leaders?

BYOD?

Invest in staff training

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Our school already made some savings with reducing small printers in every office and replacing them with rented network printers. Teachers now have three rented network printers. The rent includes toner and some quote of free copies  per month. We do print on both sides and extend margins. Suggestion about  choosing the right font to save ink was new to me, so thanks, I will transfer this information to other colleagues.
Teachers use Drive to store their documents and some teachers use Moodle interactive classrooms. Last year we also bought some refurbished computers. They work as good as the new ones.

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Saw an example of Student Digital Leaders in a school recently and it seems like a great scheme. We need to control printing costs in our school. We have started having secure print on the network printer - staff no longer print material that they forget to go and collect.

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I like the idea of Digital Leaders: it is a way to extend training further, and reforce the chain in its weaker part that are the end users.
Saving money using two sides for printing, just in black and white, changing fonts and margins. All this sounds good.
In our case, we have been reducing the number of printers spread around the school, using a centralized printer, with a control of use, and it saves a lot of money too.
A right use of Projector options like mute, can save a lot of time in projector lamps . It could be showed by the digital leaders to the rest of teachers that they didn't know how to use them.

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We use both paper sides for printing; take care of lamp in projectors; use clouds..
Very interesting is the idea of students "Digital Leaders", but I agree that in primary schools it is hard to implement.

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In Spanish schools the budget is limited and the purchase of material is the responsibility of the administration. The center barely has the ability to shop and invest in modern equipment.

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Very interesting fast and easy operations suggested to save ink,  paper and time.
Another way to save money in school is using cloud and open source software.

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Unfortunately, even if we have national programs of development and IT labs in schools are not equipping all schools sufiecient sources. In this case, until the projects are implemented in all schools, equipment becomes obsolete.

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I think that the problem is to have more money for the government. But it's is impossible. Now, one method is use FOSS/FLOSS for ICT, but for use it is necessary many ICT competence. Then is very important to learn and upgrade the teacher about ICT. This course is very useful for us about technical competence but is very important to know school law, and the law limit about every single Nation.

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I liked very much the idea of Digital Leaders. It is way to reduce time and money and on the other hand a way to make students more responsable.

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Interesting suggestions order to save.
As regards Digital Leaders is an excellent idea, but in primary school is a difficult task to be entrusted to the pupils because they are too small.

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I appreciate the suggestion about students as Digital leaders. I work in an "Istituto Comprensivo", i.e. children aged 6-14 and this is not always possible, but I think students can effectively contribute to troubleshooting. BYOD is not allowed in our school, but we have G Suite since this school year and that is helping a lot, even if we are facing the major problem of training teachers.

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Appointing some students as Digital Leaders, as Paul Hynes suggests, and giving them some basic training about general trouble-shooting can result in real help for the school and also gets students involved. That can stimulate cooperation between students and teachers and the school itself. In addition, students would feel engaged because this idea makes them an active part of their school.

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A GOOD IDEA FOR SAVING MONEY

I love the idea of students as Digital Leaders with some basic training: trouble about shooting printers, projectors, connectivity, use of the network and so on. In this way  a big part of problems could be solved by the Digital Leaders and the lesson could be easily carried on.

After an incident, the Digital Leaders has to send a report to the ICT manager for future reference: this is helpful also for teachers in order to avoid wasting time sending a help message to all staff.

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I don't think that the problem is to have or not G. Suite, but to have the budget to update pc, toner etc. Very interesting the idea of students "Digital Leaders"

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google G suite always returns to solve all problems. I have tried to convince my principal to let me work on it, but the main problem is represented by a negative attitude of teachers who are not willing to undergo a training program (I already tried with Moodle, years ago). Wi.fi also, often slow and often not functioning because of crash, is another problem because any cloud service is based on a constantly reliable connection. Also the idea of young digital leader is a very good one. In effect, in our school we do have "unofficial" digital leaders, it would be good to give them badges or prizes.

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We are saving money primarily by using cloud and open source software. We don't use Byod because in our opinion Primary school pupils are too young to bring and effectively use their own devices

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I agree with all proposals read and heard. Another thing is to carry them out.

2 years ago we put Open Office instead of Microsoft Office. Teachers (who are not very technological) at home had Office and at school Open Office and did not know how to coexist with the 2 systems.

The same goes for the operating system. It is true that you would save money on windows licenses, using a free operating system. But teachers find it difficult to understand another different operating system. Some do not care and agree, but others see it as a problem

I would like to know if those who have changed to open source software have had those problems and how you have solved them.

We use BYOD, that's why we saved money on devices, but if not, I think it's interesting to study chromebooks.

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In my region there are public funding and that the head of school can request showing a project for school

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Using BYOD and  open source software is good idea to save money.

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To reduce cost. some initiatives already we have taken in our school.
- Print both side.
- encouraging all to use electronic version instead  of hard copy to read
- Using email for communication.
-Maintain school time.
- Government reducing tax on ICT equipment.
- Using trusted free apps for educational purpose.
- Staff orientation on how to ICT safely for reducing trouble of ICT equipment

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The BYOD solution is the cheaper to save money to spend in building a school network. Today the large diffusion of smartphones allow every student to manage a personal web-connected device at school. This situation could become a point of strength which could allow a comfortable use of new technologies without spending a large amount of money.

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The font problem is really a big thing. We did this last year and it is significant how the toner cost are reduced. Secondly it is also reduce of cost if you outsource some kind of things. For example we have an external company that cares about all the hardware an installation of the network components.

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Saving money in our school:
1) open source software

2) printing over account (card with limit for teachers, students have to pay a certain sum of money for printing)

3) default black-and-white printing
4) e-mail distribution lists
5) drive  to store etc.

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In my school we saved money using open source software, ebook bought by students and all free Apps that we find on web. Regarding devices we haven't the possibility to change every three years the computers or others devices but often teachers and students work with old devices

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The boys are a resource. The cooperative learning is a possibility to create resources and to decrease service costs.

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I think schools can start leverage the smart use of technology to significantly reduce the running costs with some tips:  using source software like Linus, make a BYOD project and use a double side printing.

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I am the G Suite admin and the responsible for staff training in line with the PNSD National Plan for Digital Innovation by the Italian Ministry of Education  in my school and I think that open sources, free 2.0 web tools, G Suite for education and the use of BYOD policies are now the main ways to save money in schools and also support innovation in teaching and learning.

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We use BYOD system for many activities. In addition, the Faculty of Education of my city changes its computers from time to time to modernize its computering labs. These computers are in very good conditions and are not obsolete. My school asked 18 computers to the Faculty of Education to replace the old computers in the computering lab. And at the moment this request has been accepted and we already have the computers we requested. Now we have to do the change of computer equipment and prepare the lab so that the students can use it.

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I suppose our school made saving by using open source software Linux.  Then many colleagues print on two sides of the paper. A good tip would be to extend the margins or take in to consideration the font being used. Good solution at the moment seems moving to the clouds, but firstly to improve the situation with the internet connection. It is hard because many things are interconnected.

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I made by myself our wifi network. I bought, installed and configured our wifi network made of 11 AP. Funds coming from an internal project.
We get several PCs that some companies, like banks for example, deliver to school, in substitution of new ones: the PCs are completely clean and I have to install all the softwares and to configure the machine.
We use G-Suite and Office 365 and other platform like Edmodo

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The school shown in the video is an ideal school has everything. There aren't economic problems. It's not like my school!!! It's a dream!!!

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The use of Office 365, revealed a great cut cost in my school. The use of electronic documents, sent to the teachers and the administration by the Office 365 capabilities, reduce enormously the use of paper and printing.

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We are using for the last four years G-Suite, so we store files in the cloud and we reduced the work we had maintaining the shared resources in the server. We started two years ago replacing Windows computers with Chromebooks, the prices are competitive and you manage them from the admin panel in G-Suite, so less work. We have computers with Windows and MS Office and my idea, yet is not a school policy, is to migrate them to Linux and Open Office. Actually we don’t need Open Office been the school policy that for work we would have to use Google Docs, but is difficult to change some old habits, even with young people.

We are thinking about BYOD, however, being a VET school we need devices with keyboards, so, It’s not enough to have a smartphone. Right now we are doing a qualitative inventory of hardware and software in order to make decisions.

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I completely agree with Irish colleague Lynda. I am trying to introduce open source OS and software but colleagues are not so happy. Moreover our machines are often older than 5 years. I have also the problem that my school has 10 different buildings not so near each other, so that it is difficult to have a rapid problem-solving as I am the only internal staff member who is in ICT, I am also a full-time teacher...

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1.) BOYD - modern IT for free
2.) LEAN LAN - only provide the services that are really needed
3.) USE OPEN SOURCE - we are uinsg linux on our school pcs and unifi wifi - where i only pay for the hardware - the controller software is for free.
4.) in the US chromebooks are a big thing by now - they are pretty maintenance free, could be sth. for europe.

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COULD you seek help from sponsors, the municipality or even the parents of pupils, asking for their cooperation.

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BYOD is the becoming popular and has the potential to reduce costs provide it is managed effectively. Some nice ideas on cost saving for printing using margins and fonts in the word setup normal template.

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The idea of having Digital Leaders is brilliant! They would reach where I cannot.
Some of us already use an excellent free digital platform: Edmodo. Google Suite may be coming.
The high number of photocopies is a problem, though, and especially the use of proprietary operating systems: our textbooks have a lot of extra digital resources, but they can only be read in a Windows or Mac environment. What a pity!

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1. BYOD - modern IT for free!
2. IT that works! - avoid the enormously negative effects of IT that doesn't work.
3. Use Apple products. The ease of use and less trouble is of multiple benefit, including economic.
4. Prioritize good wifi. Old IT equipment can live with good wifi. Nothing can live with bad wifi.
5. Use what you have to the full! Hardware needs software.

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It would be great to replenish desktops and projectors every 3 years like Paul Hynes suggests but in reality it happens every 5 years or whenever we get an ICT grant from the government.
When we do renew hardware we recycle what we have in-house - by putting open source software on the machines and placing them in the library or science labs. Whenever a classroom based laptop fails we can swap one of these machines in until funds become available to replace it.
Moving totally to open source software has ben great - though not a smooth transition with staff complaining but that settles down fast enough.
BYOD is an interesting idea and one we haven't adopted yet but will be looking into in the near future.
Printing ideas and tips were great! What are the ink friendly fonts??? anyone ?? We don't allow colour printing in my school, just plain black. This in itself cut down on printing costs. Students are encouraged to use cloud services for project work and presentations. This also cut down on printing costs and paper usage dramatically.Our biggest costs would be paper and photocopier maintenance.

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we already do some of the things mentioned in the video above.  For exapmple we print double side
we have e-mail distribution lists
we use google classroom environment
we use open source
we use drive  to store materials and to work interactively..
we use BYOD when possibly
There is still a difficulty to replace books with only tablets or white board. As I mentioned previously we use also BYOD  but only with private and not school internet connection. I found the suggestion of  creating a group pf students as digital leaders very interesting  as it could help a lot  in "developing student competence"  and their awareness  of a need of a responsible use not only of the net but also of all the resources and devices we have at disposal in our schools . It could help also teacher to learn more about optimizing  te use of school's resources.

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Most of the things that I can think have already mentioned in the video:
(1) Double side printing
(2) E-mail distribution lists
(3) G-Suite
(4) Switch to open source software (Linux, LibreOffice etc)
(5) Refurbished pcs, printers etc

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I agree with Patrizia: The school can save by using the BYOD and taking advantage of cloud computing resources but in my School personal machines are forbiden

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We could use the tablets instead of the textbooks, since so much money is spent on it.
We use the cloud to share documents.
Also if the students used the tablets to do the exams we would save a lot of paper.
We work on the eScholarium platform where students can be evaluated online.

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The school can save by using the BYOD and taking advantage of cloud computing resources.

In the schools, allowing students to bring their own tablets or mobile phones it can overcome the problem of the lack of devices for all pupils. The school's facilities, rarely available 1: 1 (student: device), will be used by those students without their own devices. In this way the classes are transformed, even in the absence of sufficient funding, in environments for integrated teaching.

The use of cloud computing resources allows reducing costs, reduce the activation times and doesn't need to acquire expensive equipment or specialized skills.

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We've definitely moved to cloud, we use G-Suite to communicate, but there is still a waste of paper because teachers do a lot of photocopies for the tests. We use printers less than photocopier and fax.

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I think we print things we shouldn't print... there's such a waste of paper and ink!
Great suggestion the one about choosing the right font to save ink

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Few good rules: 1) printing only when needed;2) switching off the beamer when it is not used;3)taking out the battery of the laptop if it is always plugin...They seem silly rules but nobody respect them...

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We are looking for sponsors or try to save money from European projects

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We saved printing costs by looking at the very simple things a school could do in minutes. The classic one was to go to the Word template ‘Normal’ that appears as a blank document when users launch Word.

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Through personal work or with the help of local authorities.

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What about working or volunteering?