April 13, 2009

The golden touch definitely came into play today, but, of course, I wonder if I will jinx myself for the rest of the week. Nah, just will not happen. It was also a day of frustration with some matters, but I will not go into that because of names. I was able to help A's class with photo story, and I was also able to finish the movie maker and prepare for that tomorrow. The rest of the day dealt with handling problems. I still have been working with eyeplorer and becoming more accustomed to its odd search patterns. I still feel that there is some good relevance there, and I do look forward to working with it. I need to finalize plans for the van for the weekend of the 25th and 26th for the Promethean conference in Hershey. I will finish that tomorrow. Then the following week I have the one-to-one computing conference at PSU. I also worked with the embedded learning, and forging into areas unknown to mortal man (just in my own mind). Ya gotta love it. Well, I must also prepare for the school board meeting on Wednesday. I will be back tomorrow. Oh, this is my 180th posting for all of you keeping count. Yay!!!!!!

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.