This is the catch up phase of the fall technology project season. I guess that's what I should call it for lack of a better term. Most of the projects are very close to completion but not quite there yet. I have the entire week planned out but I need to leave some extra time for the normal chaos that will definitely ensue. Monday is returns day. I need to arrange for the return of fifty document cameras from all over the district of which I don't have any packing material left. It was all thrown out when the camera's were installed over the summer. This could prove interesting since the packing material will probably cost us something extra. We did receive the the "newest" camera from Avery this week and yes it is true, it does work better than the Kenavison units that Troxell had been supplying us. I was disappointed with the quality of the previous units but I can't say enough about Dave Johnson and Troxell for sticking with the problem long enough to get a solution for us. In addition to getting the units returned I need to get the Business Office to complete the necessary PO's that will enable me to get this done. Hopefully we can get this done all on Monday, including the PO's that will allow me to get the cameras ordered.
Tuesday will be GEM day. I am going to try to hit each of the GEM rooms on Tuesday to recap with the teacher's what needs to happen for them to finish and just what is left for me to do in each of their rooms. Rann is done and Reeds is close. Smithville is without power as is Roland. Tuesday will give me a punch list of what is left and also give me a time frame to share with them for completion. I will have Tom Ortiz help me with Reeds on Tuesday so that I will at least have two rooms completed. I will have him wire up the projector and the electric for it. Two is half done.
Wednsday will be Media day. I do plan on sneaking in some work at Roland on Monday in addition to getting the camera's switched out. I need to move some monitors and start to assemble the rest of the tables I purchased for the rooms. Steve Wilkens from our maintenance department was able to cut up the center island for me last week and as usual he did a great job and gave me exactly what I asked for. I believe that I should be able to get the room up and running in one day if I put the whole day into it. It is probably about a three day project but if I hustle and work smart I may get it done much faster than that. There will be some problems with one of the corner units that shipped with the furniture. I will need to brace the unit with some sort of extra bracing that I will need to bolt onto the corner desk. I will have Steve look at it this week and between the two of us we should get something together.
Thursday will be coorespondence day. I have paper work that is needed for Verizon, E-Rate, 2004 inventory documents and about a hundred return phone calls to make to a host of different people. I am exchanging some printers as well as trying to work out the switch to the transparent lan services from Verizon. This is the beginning of the movement away from the router based system that we are currently using on the off campus intranet connections. I am also leaving two hours open to back track on the prior day's work as well. I really don't expect to get the entire room done at Roland in one day but if I can get some help from Tom again with the wiring I may have a shot at it.
Friday is a Staff-development day and that will take the entire day to complete. It is a necessary day and there will be a number of very good presentations scheduled to take place. That's the week in brief at Galloway.
Charter represents some very different tasks to get this week in the books. New systems in Music and TV will take up Monday and Tuesday night. Tapes need to be done and rotated on Monday and Thursday of this week. There will be some work in the academic wing with some software installs for both Math classrooms. There are also going to be some storage space manipulations that will be necessary this week as well. Most likely this will be a five night week at Charter since the system use if actually through the roof we are experiencing an extremely high volume of traffic on the system. The staff are really using the system more and more each week since the beginning of this school year and we should have some interesting decisions to make before the end of this year. I have to address the BOE about obsolence and the actual number of workstations that will be turned over this year. Not a fun discussion but necessary. Busy, busy week. Till next post.
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