Struggling to Stay 1:1

If you're teaching anywhere in a district like mine your district has been touched by the not so invisible hand of budget cuts.  That can mean many different things depending on what you teach, grade level, or where you teach.  We could debate until we're blue in the face as to why this is happening, but it would change very little.  Art supplies get cut for the art dept, calculators don't get replaced, gym class will be played with flat basketballs everyone has to take a bite of this sandwich I understand.

One thing everyone gets no matter what you teach is bigger class sizes.  People retired and they were not replaced leaving you with an excess of students.  For me this means in a class that four out of the seven classes that I teach are no longer one to one.   What is a 1:1 teacher to do?  Give up?  Get out the worksheets and vocab lists?  Those are loser answers, necessity is the mother of all invention.  Here are some of the things I've done to deal with the situation.  Any other input would be appreciated.

Bring in some of your old personal laptops/desktops:
I only have one old laptop, so I brought it in.  Students cannot save to their network drive, but as I told them "You're a big boy/girl, you should have a dropbox account and a google apps account."  Students are not really limited as to what they can do on a non-school machine due to the cloud.

Personal Devices:
This is bound to be the most controversial option for some people (esp. if you are in administration).  Should a student ever use a personal device in my room for educational purposes I would simply make sure that they could create content (slideshows, movies, documents etc) but save the uploading for later so they are not on the school network.

Differentiate:
Some students either do not want to or do not have the ability to produce work and demonstrate knowledge in a 21st century classroom, but obviously can still demonstrate mastery of a subject.  Let them do it however they want!  Lets face it, some students are more comfortable answering questions at the end of the chapter on a piece of paper.  However, (and this is where I used to struggle) make sure to assess them in that manner rather than PBL.

I don't have all of the answers but these are just some of the things I've done.  As I said before, any help would be appreciated.  Maybe somewhere in the not to distant future I will no longer have to create a post like this, but until then...improvise.