Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Finally, finally the light is actually appearing at the end of the tunnel with my summer/fall projects.  I am close on the Media Centers and I have set a drop dead date of next Thursday as the completion date for them.  We are also waiting for the rest of the Celeron processors that will enable us to get the final units built that will finish the last room that will be needed.  We will also be completing GEM, Art, and a couple of small projects that are still lingering on and on.  I am working on Smithville's Media Center over the next two days and I hope to be almost completed by end of day on Thursday.  I have several tables to construct, some addition wiring and some small amounts of electric that need to be done as well.  I have decided to put the teacher's station on a cart that will fit between two doors coming into the Media center.  Since the rooms were designed to accomodate twenty terminals and a laser printer as well as the teacher's workstation it will be tight for real estate.  We will be able to at some time add some units to the center island that I have left in the room.  What that will entail will be to break up the concrete to drop a conduit into the floor and run the necessary electric and network cables   In order to not ruin the view with a power pole I will need to get the electric to the unit in someway.  I don't know if we can do this inside but I will attempt to get our guys in Maintenance to get this done for me.  As we are finishing up the projects it is time to think about December and the rest of the year.  The month of December will be spent collecting our collective self and revisit the projects and coordinate with everyone as to the effectiveness of each.  I have some ideas as to what the rest of year will bring but we do have some commitments that we need to try to fulfill.  The teacher's workstations that we are working on are next on the list as well as the TV's that need to come out of the Middle School and be distributed to grades 1-3 in the elementary schools.  I have some units that need to be ghosted and installed in that function.  I may have to put that off since we have about two months of work in moving existing teacher's workstations throughout the district.  Since our electric has been taken care of we now can concentrate on putting everything where it belongs in the classrooms.  I have started this in Reeds Road this week and we should be pushing through this over the next two months.  We are now up to about 1100 workstations that have been hooked to the network and have received the latest virus protection updates that are needed.  Til next post. 10:48:58 PM    comment []

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