Week 2- Snow days= Outside Hours

AN ENTIRE WEEK OF SCHOOL CANCELED FOR SNOW?? Anyone feel like punching mother nature right now? 

This was my measurements of snow earlier this week! 

Due to the entire week of school being canceled, I did not get in any inside hours. However, I got in 7 hours of "outside" hours working! Our district requires principals to get to school during snow days. As I live very close to school, I was able to make it into work when my principal was there.

Many media specialists are also the STCs, or school technology coordinators, for their schools. It is important that I gain experience troubleshooting, updating, and processing technology. Our district offers an online work order system for teachers with technology problems. I was allowed to access the ZMS system and work on a variety of work orders. I fixed Smart Boards, projectors, replaced desktop mice and keyboards, updated software and many other technology needs.

One of my biggest tasks was to process newly purchased technology. Zoneton is a Title I school and we receive funds to support our needs. Recently, we had a budget surplus that needed to be spent for the fiscal school year. Our school had enough funds to purchase 82 mini-laptops! My task is to help process all of these laptops to create two mobile labs with 60 of them and create a library mini-lab of 22.

Processing 82 laptops is an enormous job!! First I had to unbox, unwrap, and plug in all of them. That took several hours! Then I had to "image" each of them. The district technology gurus showed me how to use the district internet to download all required software and network capabilities. This process takes at least 45 minutes for each mini-laptop. ZMS has 10 open network ports for imaging use. As you can imagine, I spent a lot of time in the network room this week!

Hopefully next week we will actually have school and I can get into the library!