Thursday, July 28

This morning I had inservice, but this afternoon I was with Mrs. Marilyn Estes at Charlotte Elementary.  We replaced 3 computers in the office, and worked on 2 in a classroom.  What surprises me is although that does not sound like a lot of "work", it is very time consuming.  Putting the hardware together is easy, it's the software that Mrs. Estes has to load and "tweak" and register.  She does some of that and then has to restart the computer (at least 5 to 10 minutes of waiting), back to more software tweaking and then another restart to make sure all comes up right.  Time seems to fly by and we haven't done very much WORK.  I did get another computer for my room out of the deal, she let me have the slower, less memory computer from the office.  I think the best part of this 6000 class is the relationships you form with the technology people.

Tuesday, July 26

Today we had our school in-service orientation.  Once we got through with that I ran into one of our other tech's Mrs. Marilyn Estes.  She was troubleshooting how to get a computer to show up on the TV with an S-cable.  Most of the televisions have been equipped with the proper "boxes", but this particular classroom had not been done.  Once we finished with that, we looked at another room and why the computer will not show on the monitor via the video transfer box.  We could not figure out what was going on, so she is going to ask some of the other tech's what they think and bring in a new box to try.  Our final fix it was a 3rd grade class room that the towers were mixed up and one was not coming up.  She determined that one computer "died", we had the flashing yellow light of death.  I'm hoping to run into her again tomorrow once I'm done with the New Evaluation Training and help do some other troubleshooting.

Wednesday, July 13

Today I helped a new teacher set up her computers in her room.  We originally did not use the room she is in, but now need the 5th fourth grade teacher.  She was having small, easy for me, technical difficulties getting internet up and computers working.  I did some simple troubleshooting and was able to get all 3 of her computers up and running.  I did have to turn in some "helpdesk" inquiries for Scott and the tech team to troubleshoot for me.  Those requests concerned passwords and S-video capabilities for her room.  I would LOVE to do this daily with pay if they would hire me.  I like troubleshooting and finding the easy fixes that others don't know.  (They think I'm brillant!!)

July 6-7

WOW!  I've been busy.  Scott and I worked at CreekWood Wednesday adding new switches and shortening the CAT 5 cables.  Same as we did at Centennial Elementary.  My jobs are to screw on the "ears" or brackets on the new switches, hold switch boxes while Scott tightens them down, and keeping the are clean by hanging up old cables and picking up trash.  It's been enlightening and Scott has been really patient and kind about me following him around.

Thursday was busy working with three of my fellow teachers.  We have created blogs for each of them and rearranged their rooms.  The three new blogs are the library, a fourth grade teacher, and a fifth grade teacher.  Two of the three made voki's for their blog.  I've really been enjoying my 6000 this summer, I've learned a lot and made some good "connections".  I'm not done, I have 24 days until the kids show up and then I'm sure I'll blog during the Fall when tech happens!  =)