January 16, 2009

I am ready to finish the week. I had a teacher Lenovo die on me, and I mean it was DOA. I just can't wait to deal with Lenovo. We are trying to image the lappys. K has been working on the image and is going to teach me some ghosting unlike the old C promised he would and never delivered. That will teach the old anonymous one. I see a light at the end of the tunnel dealing with a lot of things, and then I can concentrate on working with the implemenation of it all. That is where it is. Next week, I have to get the embedded learning ready for deployment (sounds like a new OS, not quite). Like I said, not much to write. I will have more next week--I just checked my calendar.

March 7, 2008

I am definitely having trouble reformatting the Lenovos. I am not impressed with this laptop configuration, etc. I am trying to create an image without the @@#$$%%^^%^ thing keeps losing its integrity. I have tried three times to get the image; I get so far and then have to redo it. I am not happy with Lenovo, CDW-G, and anything else with this particular laptop. I will try again Monday. Sometimes one just has to walk away for now. Do not get me wrong; I think Lenovo is a great brand, but I feel we got the short end of the stick when we got these with a Celeron processor, etc. I wish we could have configured the lappys ourselves. I also got bad news from Promethean. Supposedly I received an email in December concerning the training. I have those emails and found none. The training is over so I have to work out an alternate solution to get things done. The bureaucracy involved in this is wonderful {sarcasm}.
I attended a meeting with the technical director et al. to go over a document for new teachers accessing technology. It was quite productive. I was late due to the Promethean and Lenovo problems. I also met with the teachers and set up some times to deal with them individually to go over concerns, etc. I have a full day planned Monday. I also have to filter in the Lenovo, etc. I am also confirmed to go to Adobe training in Williamsport on April 28-29. I know this conflicts with the one-to-one computing computing conference, but I feel I need this more. I'll be back next week.