“I Can’t Make This Stuff Up” item for today
This is a real help desk ticket from one of our users. The computers in question are Mac Minis connected to Dell displays. There are not a lot of places to look on a Mac Mini for a power button. There is nothing wrong with the computers or the displays.
“Since I have been in this room. This is 3 years now, I cannot just go to a computer in my classroom and use it. Right now on the Dell one I wanted a student to use it to type up a story, and lo and behold it would not work. We have a blank screen. Then another student turned it off and turned it back on and we had a green light for a moment, then we saw, in screen saver mode, and then we had a yellow light.
I can’t turn the other computer on because I don’t know where to do that. My room parent shut it off because she feels it is too loud and she comes and uses the other one to level books.
Please give me a minilesson on starting up the computers.”
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Progress?
Yesterday, got the OK to do a full-in 1:1 readiness assessment. Today, learned that Legal is fine with Google Apps COPPA compliance process (with a tweak or two). Feels like progress.
Things No Tech Director Should Have To Do
Explain to grown ups that handing in a filthy school laptop is not OK.
If a projector fails in the forest….
…and no one is there to see it, will the warranty still cover the repair?
Conceptual Problem
I think there might be something conceptually wrong with selling VIP tickets to a punk rock show. But it didn’t stop me from buying one.
The Independent Schools Management newsletter offers up a couple of interesting factoids about social media in higher ed and their implications for private K-12 schools.
Students at a suburban school may be able to log on some time in 2012 or 2013.
