Our computer repair computers, which we got from ACE, inexplicably have a 5 YEAR warantee. I've never heard of such a thing. 90 days, sure, 1 year, maybe, but 5 years?
Anyway, we will have our faulty motherboard replaced, and the bad stick of ram, and we will be good to go!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
More evil paper
More items that should be E-Awesome:
Evaluations: Form A, Form B
Request for Purchase Order
Evaluations: Form A, Form B
Request for Purchase Order
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Inspired by Cisco
I had a few gentlemen in to talk to my class about careers in information technology. Two of them were from Cisco, and one from AT&T.
The Cisco team mentioned that about 5 years ago, they made a company commitment to go completely paperless for all in-house operations.
If anyone needs to check their information, paycheck, sick days, request leave, etc. It is all electronic.
Why don't we do that?
If we made a genuine commitment to do it, we could shift everything over to electronic format.
A glowing example is the websense unblock/block form.
Why in the world isn't that a web form?
I mean, the laptop and lab request forms are outstanding, but with the amount of paperwork we have to do, I find it irritating when there are still things that must be done by hand.
A running tally of things that should be webified:
Websense block/unblock
Sub Request forms
Request for leave
Work order
Auditorium Request Form
Request for disbursement
More to come.
The Cisco team mentioned that about 5 years ago, they made a company commitment to go completely paperless for all in-house operations.
If anyone needs to check their information, paycheck, sick days, request leave, etc. It is all electronic.
Why don't we do that?
If we made a genuine commitment to do it, we could shift everything over to electronic format.
A glowing example is the websense unblock/block form.
Why in the world isn't that a web form?
I mean, the laptop and lab request forms are outstanding, but with the amount of paperwork we have to do, I find it irritating when there are still things that must be done by hand.
A running tally of things that should be webified:
Websense block/unblock
Sub Request forms
Request for leave
Work order
Auditorium Request Form
Request for disbursement
More to come.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Subtle Humor
In the tech budget, under the comments that everyone probably overlooks, the DVD/VCR combo units who I'm quite certain have "Certain to break!" listed as a feature on the packaging, is listed "$#@&"
Either a heavy pinky turned 4327 into a suggesting censoring, or it really was a visual representation of a hateful emotion.
My guess? It's a synonym for "Expletive Deleted"
Either a heavy pinky turned 4327 into a suggesting censoring, or it really was a visual representation of a hateful emotion.
My guess? It's a synonym for "Expletive Deleted"
Who's a funny fellah? W. P. Kinsella!
Yesterday afternoon I went to a gifted meeting at Palatine High School.
These days, it's unusual to be in a group where there are so few technologically enthusiastic people. Of the twelve people in the group, there was only one gentleman who admitted to being able to create "rudimentary" (his words, not mine) websites. I didn't outwardly offer my skills at the onset, because as a new member of the group, I was still feeling out the dynamics.
Towards the end of the meeting, the problem of student abstracts was brought up, and the fact that it was becoming a major chore to get all of them into the same formatting. It was difficult to get all of the mentors listed as "Mr. John Doe" or Mrs, or Ms, or whatever it was supposed to be, never mind getting the school spelled right, or even the font size and face the same.
I suggested a web form that would be filled out, and would collate the data into a nice, pretty database.
Why do I do that to myself?
Long story short, I created the web form, and it is now posted here in all of it's random red glory.
http://www.fhs.d211.org/departments/appliedtech/mkarasch/gifted/abstract.asp
These days, it's unusual to be in a group where there are so few technologically enthusiastic people. Of the twelve people in the group, there was only one gentleman who admitted to being able to create "rudimentary" (his words, not mine) websites. I didn't outwardly offer my skills at the onset, because as a new member of the group, I was still feeling out the dynamics.
Towards the end of the meeting, the problem of student abstracts was brought up, and the fact that it was becoming a major chore to get all of them into the same formatting. It was difficult to get all of the mentors listed as "Mr. John Doe" or Mrs, or Ms, or whatever it was supposed to be, never mind getting the school spelled right, or even the font size and face the same.
I suggested a web form that would be filled out, and would collate the data into a nice, pretty database.
Why do I do that to myself?
Long story short, I created the web form, and it is now posted here in all of it's random red glory.
http://www.fhs.d211.org/departments/appliedtech/mkarasch/gifted/abstract.asp
Yesterday's sub-par post
Looking back at my post from yesterday during the meeting, it becomes apparent that I cannot pay attention to a presentation and blog at the same time. I'm actually impressed with the bloggers that keep up-to-date blogs during conferences and expos. That would be incredibly difficult.
Mike (Mike B, not me speaking in the 3rd person) has started a wiki for technology. I started making a "Tips and Tricks" page for the tablet PCs, because as they start to roll out, I have a sneaking suspicion that there will be a lot of the same question being asked.
After some tomfoolery, Mike slammed the doors on freewheeling editery, and made it so only writers can edit. I applied to be a writer, so keep your fingers crossed that I make the cut!
I've already prepared my acceptance speech.
Mike (Mike B, not me speaking in the 3rd person) has started a wiki for technology. I started making a "Tips and Tricks" page for the tablet PCs, because as they start to roll out, I have a sneaking suspicion that there will be a lot of the same question being asked.
After some tomfoolery, Mike slammed the doors on freewheeling editery, and made it so only writers can edit. I applied to be a writer, so keep your fingers crossed that I make the cut!
I've already prepared my acceptance speech.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Tech Meeting Today!
Wicked tech coach meeting today!
Learned to use labels! It's easier to search for things if they are labeled correctly.
Talked about social networking and blogs and how they could be used in the classroom.
Learned to use labels! It's easier to search for things if they are labeled correctly.
Talked about social networking and blogs and how they could be used in the classroom.
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