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When we put HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-Ones into two high school classrooms, we knew they would be helpful, but we had no idea how quickly they would become indispensable! See what two teachers from very different high schools had to say about having an All-in-One in the classroom to teach visual literacy, copy notes, archive student work, and so much more. |
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Different schools; different needs |
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| Julie Veltman in her classroom at a small, public charter school focused on leadership and entrepreneurship. |
| The school where Julie teaches operates out of a space not originally built as a school, presenting some technological challenges. |
| At Julie’s school, the copier is housed in this blue building (The main building is the grey one on the left). An unfortunate fire in the blue building made the wireless capabilities and copier on the HP Photosmart even more indispensable than usual, coming to the rescue of the entire school. |
| Santha in front of her school. |
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Recently, HP offered two high school teachers the opportunity to test drive two HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-Ones in their classrooms to see if having these multi-talented machines nearby would make the school day any less stressful.
Meet Julie Veltman
The first teacher, Julie Veltman, works at a small charter school focused on leadership, entrepreneurship, and college prep for students with a wide range of skills and socio-economic backgrounds. Though she has 11 years of teaching experience, this is her first year teaching A.P. English and working as a college counselor.
Her school has many funding and resource challenges, which impact her printing situation:
- The school has a shortage of printers (5) for the number of teachers (20)
- All of the printers are located inside of other teachers’ classrooms, so to pick up a printed document, she needs to interrupt another class in session
- The school’s copier is located in a separate building (an issue in the rainy climate in which she lives)
- The school’s printers are all mono (black & white)
- The copier only makes single copies at a time; not good for large copy jobs
- Spotty Internet connections throughout the school can make wireless printing from a laptop a challenge
Meet Santha Cassell
Our other teacher, Santha Cassell, works for a public school as well, but in the city’s most affluent district. This term, she’s teaching U.S. History and supervising the school newspaper. Next term, she’ll be guiding students through their Senior Exhibition class, an interdisciplinary and multi-media requirement for graduation from her small, innovative program.
Santha’s primary concern with her current printer situation is privacy. She writes numerous college recommendations and prints out other sensitive documents that she’s uncomfortable sending to a public printer accessible to students in the computer lab.
Beyond remedying her concerns with confidentiality, Santha shared another area she hoped to improve: “I guess the theme of the past month since I’ve started school has been ‘How can I use technology better and smarter just globally in my teaching?’” She was eager to see how the printer in her classroom could help.
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Copier in the classroom “a lifesaver” |
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| Julie has a small office in the back of her classroom where she keeps her HP All-in-One. |
| The school where Julie teaches uses very few textbooks for both economic and pedagogical reasons, so she appreciates the ability to scan and copy primary sources for her classes in accordance with the Fair Use Doctrine. |
| When a student has been absent, Julie uses the in-class All-in-One to quickly copy a good set of notes from the missed classes. |
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We talked with Julie shortly after she had a chance to work with the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One in her classroom. “I have to say that the number one exciting thing is the copier. I think you could ask any teacher in America, ‘How would your life change if you had a copy machine in your classroom?’ and their eyes would light up.”
Modeling good work
Julie has already found myriad ways to take advantage of the immediacy of an in-class copier. “Say I see a piece of student work that I think is excellent; I can actually make a copy of it, project it on the board, and I can model, for example, how I want students to do peer editing. I can model how to annotate text… all these things that I do regularly in the classroom, but I don’t have a way of making a copy of it, I’m now able to do with the printer, which is incredibly exciting.”
Helping kids share information
The All-in-One is also a revelation for copying notes. Julie continued, “I have kids who are on IEPs (Individualized Education Programs), which are special education students who, for example, can’t take their own notes, so they’re able to copy another student’s notes or I can make a copy of my notes for a kid.”
She also talked about the in-class copier as a tool to help kids take responsibility when they are absent. “They know, when they miss class, they get the notes from someone, they walk over to the copier, they make their copy.”
Daily class planning
Santha concurred, telling us, “I use the printer all day. When I come in to prep, I create assignments and print them and make copies. I also download articles and readings and then I print them and I make copies.”
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Color printing and scanning as learning tools |
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| Santha showed us the (unretouched) difference between an assignment she printed on the school’s ill-calibrated laser printer (above—notice murky colors and striping) and the more vibrant version she created with the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One. |
| Here’s an example of student work expressing the historical significance of a subject visually. Santha praised the student’s representation of an abolitionist and clergyman: “Having the color show off his many jobs, his many guises, just worked great.” |
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Getting students excited
Santha has been working on creating assignments with more of a visual component, including an assignment for her history class “to do research about a person who lived in the 19th century but was not covered by the Constitution … and write a poem in first person about the things that person did, and then create an image that communicates the historical significance of the person.”
She had fun playing with color while creating the handout for the assignment. Additionally, it was exciting to see what happened when one student got inspired with an idea for a color treatment of his subject. She told him, “’Yeah, and then you could print it on my really good color printer,’ and so he did it, and the other kids were like, ‘Wow, I want to do it, too,’ and it was like a domino effect, and they were using the printer better just because this one kid said, ‘Oh, I can do this.’”
Santha explained that, aside from the “wow” factor and the fun, there were academic benefits as well; the ability to translate an historical figure’s significance into a visual expression is “kind of like higher order thinking,” and the students used the printer to help.
Teaching visual literacy
Julie also found ways to incorporate the printer in her teaching. “Part of the AP Language and Composition course has to do with analysis of visuals.” Unfortunately, she began this unit before she had the HP Photosmart Premium Fax in her classroom. “I chose four of what I considered to be iconic photographs and because I didn’t have my printer yet, I had to print them on the color printer, and the colors were off and they were pixelly. It just didn’t translate. You didn’t really get the sense of it.”
She imagined what the assignment could have been with the HP All-in-One. “Had I had a scanner, I could have taken actual books that had the photographs in them, scanned them, and then I think kids would have had a much better sense of what those images actually looked like.”
Using scans for presentations
Julie explained further plans for the scanner later in the year: “Our students do student-led conferences where they present to their parents their progress so far. That’s done in a PowerPoint.”
“One of the pieces that they have to do is show examples of student work.” She plans to have students scan their work examples, put them on their computers, and include the scans in their PowerPoint conference presentations. |
Tools for conserving resources |
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Saving paper
Santha was surprised to find that an HP All-in-One could be a valuable tool in helping her reduce paper use, one of her goals for using technology more wisely in her classroom. “Having a scanner is a way to reduce paper.” She added, “I’m looking at trying to plan electronically and then post that online… I could scan a reading into my computer and then post it online as a PDF file.”
She also plans to make greater use of the Automatic duplexer, setting two-sided printing as the default whenever possible.
Saving time and money
Save time and money by using high-yield 564XL cartridges with an HP Photosmart Premium Fax. These high-capacity cartridges let teachers spend less time ordering and changing ink while getting a lower per-page printing cost. And because the HP Photosmart Premium Fax uses individual inks, you only replace the color you’re out of, reducing waste. |
Enriching classes with technology |
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Printing wirelessly
Santha said, “Here’s something interesting. The kids who have laptops, I can give them the disk, and they can print.” She estimates that about 25% of the students in her classes have wireless-enabled notebook PCs and laptops, enabling them to print wirelessly in the classroom.
For Julie, the school offers several shared student notebook PCs. She finds that the direct, short-range instant Bluetooth connection is helpful because the school’s Internet connection and Wi-Fi signals aren’t as reliable in her wing of the building.
Printing directly on CD/DVDs
Julie foresaw several times throughout the year that she and her colleagues would be using the handy print-to-CD feature on the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One. “A lot of assignments are done and submitted on CD…When I teach Spanish, there are lots of speaking assignments that kids have to hand in, or kids do skits, film them, and submit them on CD, so there’s potential for that.”
On a more extracurricular note, she added that, “Every year, the school puts out a CD, and so we can scan the kids’ picture onto the music CD that they do.” |
Winning teacher feature: Quick Forms calendars |
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| Santha uses Quick Forms calendars to track her newspaper students’ progress in a self-directed class. |
| Julie goes over a schedule for make-up work with a student—printed from Quick Forms. |
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Santha already has become addicted to the Quick Forms feature (available on several HP Photosmart All-in-Ones). As a person who doesn’t consider herself tech-savvy, Santha said, “Being able to pump out a calendar; to me, that’s not basic—it’s fabulous.”
Quick Forms as teaching tool
Santha explains how she uses the calendars in her after-school newspaper class. “I use the printer to make handouts of instant monthly calendars to give to students who have to keep a daily diary of what they do in newspaper.” She explains that, because newspaper is a self-directed class, these daily diaries are the only tool she has to grade students’ productivity.
Helping students plan
Julie uses Quick Forms in a different but no less useful way: “I have kids who are behind from when they’re sick, and I can just print out a week with the Quick Forms, or a month and we can say, ‘All right. Let’s map out what you’re going to have by what date.’ So, especially kids who have organizational issues, the Quick Forms are really helpful.” |
The teachers sum up their experiences |
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Access to technology
Aside from her enthusiasm about the convenience of copying and printing without having to leave the room, Julie noticed an additional benefit of having a full-featured HP All-in-One in her class. “Giving access to this not only opens the teachers’ world, but also opens up the kids’ world as well; a lot of kids don’t have technology at home, so, in a lot of ways, having this in the classroom evens out the playing field.”
Improving teachers’ quality of life
After having the printer in her classroom for a few weeks, Santha reported back on her overall experience, “It’s made my job a lot more pleasant and actually taken down the stress a little bit to have a printer right here.”
She continued, “Anything that smoothes out efficiency and requires fewer steps and less worry about the wrong people seeing a document, and less frustration is just a huge boon to a teacher.” |
Get an HP All-in-One for your classroom |
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| End your reliance on the office copier and the print shop with an HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One in your classroom. Make single- or double-sided copies in color or black-and-white, print wirelessly, print out weekly or monthly calendars at the touch of a button, and so much more. |
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The HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One
$299.99
- Scans, copies, faxes, and prints in vibrant, detailed color
- Networking via built-in wireless, Ethernet, and Bluetooth
- Quick Forms feature creates calendars, Sudoku, to-do lists, graph paper, and more—instantly and without a PC
- Accommodates high-capacity XL printer cartridges for lower per-page printing cost
- Automatic two-sided printing
- Direct photo printing from memory cards and photo editing directly from the printer control panel—no PC required.
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Learn more |
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- See the Guide to HP printers to find out about other HP printers and All-in-Ones that can help in the classroom, including low-intervention HP LaserJets, high volume HP Officejet Pro inkjets, and a wide range of features and price points.
- Find out more about Printer features to help out teachers, including HP Academy, an equipment discount program for educators and students, and other ways that an HP printer can be a more affordable teaching partner.
- Home office printing: Get additional ideas for increasing productivity and efficiency in the ways you print at home and at work.
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