Arrive at 7:45 and begin back up of PD data for exchange with Paris. Server update for Migrant web server.
8:45 Contact Cedarville about IDEAS training, catch up on e-mail, talk to Bridge (Scranton) about IDEAS training wed with the possible weather issue. Decided to postpone to next week. check on TCCs that need CIV session for Thursday. Sent out NORMES info from Debbie C. Caught up on some paper work that piled up while I was out doing IDEAS workshops and tech workshops last week.
9:45 - 10:30 Assist Susan (Charleston) with e-rate issuse
10:30 - 11:20 paperwork for absences and travel requests
11:20 - 12:00 worked on coop new web server
12:00 - 12:10 check email
12:10 head to Paris for the afternoon
Checked out the set up for the BEE project and the effect of the new internet connection on bandwidth usage.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, Jan 28 - I spent the day at Ozark middle school and Ozark junior high processing registrations for IDEAS and explaining what IDEAS makes available. I still have the kindergarten and high school to do Feb 9th. Loss of passwords for teachers that have moved to new districts and non-up-to-date information on recently hired new teachers (1 or 2 years and not always consistant) has made the process a little more difficult, but I pass along the address of IDEAS support and the information needed by IDEAS to correct those issues.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tech Coord Meeting and Booneville IDEAS
Wednesday - hosted a monthly coop area tech coordinators meeting. Dana Thompson discussed DIS service concerns and also discussed the B.E.E. Bandwidth initiative. Warren assisted schools with Windows 2008 server concerns and further talked about actual environmental changes needed to participate in the B.E.E. initiative. Everyone remarked on how valuable the information was. After the meeting I worked to repair Hackett mailfilter that failed Tuesday. I finally got it working and left the co-op about 5:30
Thursday - Went to Booneville and sat in the teachers workroom and registered teachers for IDEAS. I reached everyone in grades 4 - 6 (33 teachers). There were some new teachers that were not in the system and some others that had forgotten their passwords. I provided the contact information for IDEAS and the information they would need to provide so that IDEAS could fix those accounts.
Came back to the co-op and made some settings changes to the Hackett Mailfilter because when the server rebooted the filter didn't restart. Checked the settings by restarting the computer after allowing the mail to pass through for about 45 minutes. Didn't start automatically. Will have to work on this issue.
Thursday - Went to Booneville and sat in the teachers workroom and registered teachers for IDEAS. I reached everyone in grades 4 - 6 (33 teachers). There were some new teachers that were not in the system and some others that had forgotten their passwords. I provided the contact information for IDEAS and the information they would need to provide so that IDEAS could fix those accounts.
Came back to the co-op and made some settings changes to the Hackett Mailfilter because when the server rebooted the filter didn't restart. Checked the settings by restarting the computer after allowing the mail to pass through for about 45 minutes. Didn't start automatically. Will have to work on this issue.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Arrived at Ozark Elem at 8:00 and waited for Chad to arrive to begin registering teachers for IDEAS. We got X teachers registered at the lower elementary site and X registered at the upper elementary site. We also assisted X teachers in recovering their accounts. There were some teachers that were new that were not in the system and provided information for them to contact IDEAS to get that worked out. We planned sessions for the remaining campuses, and discussed other technology issues like migrating to Windows Server, Google Apps for Education, technology planning and future workshops at the co-op. Met Chad's new assistant Aaron.
from 7:00 to 8:00pm participated in an on-line workshop presented by IBM on using GarageBand to create podcasts and posting podcasts to Posterous.
8:00 to 9:30 pm worked on connecting to Novell server from home location through UVNC with a non-Novell client Windows box using the Windows Novell client. Seemed to work and should be a solution for the remote access to the PD application requested by Pat Yick. I emailed Pat, Pam, Shelby and Fenter about my progress and also Emailed David L to verify that my solution would not mess up anything in the program.
from 7:00 to 8:00pm participated in an on-line workshop presented by IBM on using GarageBand to create podcasts and posting podcasts to Posterous.
8:00 to 9:30 pm worked on connecting to Novell server from home location through UVNC with a non-Novell client Windows box using the Windows Novell client. Seemed to work and should be a solution for the remote access to the PD application requested by Pat Yick. I emailed Pat, Pam, Shelby and Fenter about my progress and also Emailed David L to verify that my solution would not mess up anything in the program.
catch up
Thursday Jan 20 was a 'Snow Day'. I came in at 7:50 thinking that maybe they would have the CIV but as I approached the co-op the snow started getting worse and worse. I called Amber (GT) and she told me the CIV session was cancelled. Seeing that no one else was arriving and the snow was getting worse, I drove back home.
Friday Jan 21 did some minor work on web page and hosted the CIV on Common Core Language. I also worked on Twitter and Facebook accounts to set them up for mobile access so we could do weather related closing info etc. (per Shelby per Pat request)
Monday Jan 24 held the e-rate workshop and helped 8 districts fill out 471s and a few to create new 470s for the consumer bandwidth project. Also worked with Shelby concerning access to the network PD app from home locations. From 3:15 to 5:45 worked with Kay (County Line) produce a DVD for her National Board Cert project. After getting home and eating dinner, I worked from 7:30 to 9:45pm on setting up and correcting errors in the VPN access to the Co-op's internal network IP numbers using OpenVPN on Apple MBP and Windows. This is to possibly access the application of PD from home locations.
Friday Jan 21 did some minor work on web page and hosted the CIV on Common Core Language. I also worked on Twitter and Facebook accounts to set them up for mobile access so we could do weather related closing info etc. (per Shelby per Pat request)
Monday Jan 24 held the e-rate workshop and helped 8 districts fill out 471s and a few to create new 470s for the consumer bandwidth project. Also worked with Shelby concerning access to the network PD app from home locations. From 3:15 to 5:45 worked with Kay (County Line) produce a DVD for her National Board Cert project. After getting home and eating dinner, I worked from 7:30 to 9:45pm on setting up and correcting errors in the VPN access to the Co-op's internal network IP numbers using OpenVPN on Apple MBP and Windows. This is to possibly access the application of PD from home locations.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Went to Lamar School district to try and get all their certified staff registered in IDEAS. There were about 12 faculty that didn't have IDEAS registrations. 1 needed to update his school of record, 3 were not in the system, 1 was central office and not listed in the school data from IDEAS, 1 was registered but hadn't done the turtorials, the rest we got registered today.
Got back to the coop at 12:00 and caught up on e-mail etc and then took a bit of time for lunch.
discussed excel dump with Pat
discussed excel dump with Shelby
discussed Tonia's computer issues with Shclby
Follow up with Roy (Lamar) about the teachers that didn't appear in the IDEAS system
Going to head to the CIV room to run the Legislative update session for Supt.
Got back to the coop at 12:00 and caught up on e-mail etc and then took a bit of time for lunch.
discussed excel dump with Pat
discussed excel dump with Shelby
discussed Tonia's computer issues with Shclby
Follow up with Roy (Lamar) about the teachers that didn't appear in the IDEAS system
Going to head to the CIV room to run the Legislative update session for Supt.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Arrived at 7:40 and began working on using Google Apps to upload video that can be somewhat securely shared for Laura Cooke as she works on a new Special Ed certification. Found that I have to white list users to be able to upload videos. white listed both mine and Laura's address and refreshed and nothing. logged out and logged back in, nothing. Started wondering if there was a time delay as the rights propagated to all the google servers. So caught up Friday's blog and started today's.
8:05 started working on google sites while waiting to see if the rights issue was related to server propagation.
8:25 checked back on the video rights and they were now correct. uploaded a video and waited for it to complete processing. At 8:30 I refreshed the page and the video shows processing complete. I don't know when it really got finished, to it may be important to refresh the page occasionally.
10:40 stopped working on the template page for google site. going to have to learn more of how it works. also needed to get skype up and running to help Eric tomorrow as we try to get some remote teaching/learning set up for a home bound student.
2:40 sent out information on the commissioners memo about the required 479 to all e-rate coordinators with instructions on how to fill it out and where to send it.
been messing around a bit in social networking and other things waiting for teacher to show up that needed help with video editing.. It is nearly 4:00, I am not sure they are going to show.
8:05 started working on google sites while waiting to see if the rights issue was related to server propagation.
8:25 checked back on the video rights and they were now correct. uploaded a video and waited for it to complete processing. At 8:30 I refreshed the page and the video shows processing complete. I don't know when it really got finished, to it may be important to refresh the page occasionally.
10:40 stopped working on the template page for google site. going to have to learn more of how it works. also needed to get skype up and running to help Eric tomorrow as we try to get some remote teaching/learning set up for a home bound student.
2:40 sent out information on the commissioners memo about the required 479 to all e-rate coordinators with instructions on how to fill it out and where to send it.
been messing around a bit in social networking and other things waiting for teacher to show up that needed help with video editing.. It is nearly 4:00, I am not sure they are going to show.
Friday Jan 14
Had a very busy day Friday doing paperwork and then headed to Alma to do a train the trainer for IDEAS portal and registration. Alma is very interested in the system getting up and going so they can start recording their own workshops and using the system for record keeping.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Arrived at 7:55 - Goals for the day: take care of some requests by Pat Yick about the survey. E-rate 470 for bandwidth, more work on the new web server, set up next TCC meeting, work with Christy to create a PBWorks site for TCC group, exchange back up drives with Jason at Paris, get ready for meeting with Robin at Alma on Friday.
started with Pat Yick requests
8:48 - started on the 470 for bandwidth
9:10 - finished the 470 and went to the office bldg to get financial papers and turn in travel request for TICAL and fill out PO for TICAL
10:00 - got login and password from Leon for the survey and created a report for Fort Smith to see how it worked.. still running at 10:03 finished 10:04 guess it just takes some time.. was worried a bit.
Assisted Tim Vent in getting the PBWorks site so he could provide his grant evaluation.
worked on the new PBWiki site for TCC group
11:30 - left for Paris to discuss technical issues with Jason K and to exchange hd for DRPlan procedures
1:10 - back at the coop and discussed tech issues with Shelby
1:50 - discussed setting up Skype for a student homebound and using it in the classroom as a remote learning system with Eric P.
2:10 - Worked with Susan B. on Erate issues
3:30 - caught up on e-mail
4:00 - Helped Pat Yick with issues in using Excel to see the results of the survey appendix questions
4:06 - I have not gotten to work on the web server at all today booo.. did some more work on the new wiki site and checked on the progress of TCC's that hadn't submitted their grant eval documentation yet.
4:40 - think I will head to the house
started with Pat Yick requests
8:48 - started on the 470 for bandwidth
9:10 - finished the 470 and went to the office bldg to get financial papers and turn in travel request for TICAL and fill out PO for TICAL
10:00 - got login and password from Leon for the survey and created a report for Fort Smith to see how it worked.. still running at 10:03 finished 10:04 guess it just takes some time.. was worried a bit.
Assisted Tim Vent in getting the PBWorks site so he could provide his grant evaluation.
worked on the new PBWiki site for TCC group
11:30 - left for Paris to discuss technical issues with Jason K and to exchange hd for DRPlan procedures
1:10 - back at the coop and discussed tech issues with Shelby
1:50 - discussed setting up Skype for a student homebound and using it in the classroom as a remote learning system with Eric P.
2:10 - Worked with Susan B. on Erate issues
3:30 - caught up on e-mail
4:00 - Helped Pat Yick with issues in using Excel to see the results of the survey appendix questions
4:06 - I have not gotten to work on the web server at all today booo.. did some more work on the new wiki site and checked on the progress of TCC's that hadn't submitted their grant eval documentation yet.
4:40 - think I will head to the house
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Arrived at 7:45 and began getting computer lab ready for a CWT workshop. Got all computers turned on and logged in and attached to the network for the presenters
Discussed with one of the presenters (Paris) about getting teachers on IDEAS and how to find STIN numbers. They plan to try to get their teachers registered themselves but might change their mind and have me come in for a presentation and registration workshop.
8:30 set up computers for a small APSCN workshop (impromptu) that was requested by 2 people at a district. Computers did not have the APSCN program on them and had to install it.
8:45 caught up on email
9:00 made some entry in the journal for days that I had not made entry for before I forgot what I had done
9:05 begin working to solve issue with the web server from last week
10:05 solved the web server issue changed some configuration in the config.php to indicate the server IP number instead of the 'localhost' simple change dificult to find
10:05 start adding modules to the web server to prepare to move files from old server to new server
10:30 worked to create the layout like the current web server with footprints in the sand and menu layout
1:15 finished the layout settings (whew)
1:25 adding modules
continued working on web server until 4:00 then went to CIV room to check on session that was supposed to start. guess it was cancelled, so went home
Discussed with one of the presenters (Paris) about getting teachers on IDEAS and how to find STIN numbers. They plan to try to get their teachers registered themselves but might change their mind and have me come in for a presentation and registration workshop.
8:30 set up computers for a small APSCN workshop (impromptu) that was requested by 2 people at a district. Computers did not have the APSCN program on them and had to install it.
8:45 caught up on email
9:00 made some entry in the journal for days that I had not made entry for before I forgot what I had done
9:05 begin working to solve issue with the web server from last week
10:05 solved the web server issue changed some configuration in the config.php to indicate the server IP number instead of the 'localhost' simple change dificult to find
10:05 start adding modules to the web server to prepare to move files from old server to new server
10:30 worked to create the layout like the current web server with footprints in the sand and menu layout
1:15 finished the layout settings (whew)
1:25 adding modules
continued working on web server until 4:00 then went to CIV room to check on session that was supposed to start. guess it was cancelled, so went home
some catch up entries
Jan 6th we had the monthly meeting of the TCC group in Little Rock after which I went to the DIS program on emerging technologies in cellular communications.
Jan 7th Worked on IDEAS communications with the schools and set up a number of training sessions
worked on a couple of staff computers
11:00 left for Mountainburg to get teachers registered and help others update their district and other information. Reached 7 teachers
Jan 10th - Snowed out
Jan 11th - Leave
Jan 7th Worked on IDEAS communications with the schools and set up a number of training sessions
worked on a couple of staff computers
11:00 left for Mountainburg to get teachers registered and help others update their district and other information. Reached 7 teachers
Jan 10th - Snowed out
Jan 11th - Leave
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Spent the day trouble shooting Hartford's network to locate a rouge DHCP server. Divide and conquer still took a long time. I think the district was satisfied with my work and diligence and assistance. Did send some emails about IDEAS Registration to 4 districts and answered a call from Jason (Paris) about crossover cable for the CIV system.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Jan 4 2011
Good Morning, Got here at 7:50 and started up the day by checking e-mail to see if any of the Supt had responded to my information on the IDEAS Registration. Only the two from yesterday so far but it is early. I will be monitoring a CIV session this morning in Conf H. I will only have to make sure it is working since it is staff members only. My goals for today are to work on the Web server by backing up the site and setting up a new box to see if the site is still working (DR testing), and to continue communicating with the Supt about the IDEAS Registration. I will be using OpenSuse 11.2 for the server install and keep with CMSMadeSimple as the CMS product for the server.
9:30 Call from Laura C (ECP Greenwood) needing help with video recording and security about special ed students for observation this was a long conversation due to security and technical issues. suggested using google apps with a security share only to the person that needed the video. Also suggested that she contact special ed people to verify the restrictions on security with special ed students that that issue was not technical. Explained packet capturing and other issues that could limit the security of the video through the internet
Talked to Pat about CIV for Friday Morning for the Media Center Coordinators
10:10 Returned to installing CMSMadeSimple
contact Ozark about IDEAS Training
11:10 Worked with Gina A (Greenwood) to correct naming in the PD / Leadership survey
then checked mail and helped Dean (Hackett) with E-rate issues.
11:20 Watched Google Security webcast
12:15 Worked on email issue with Marcia trying to fix Google forward with embedded images
Contacted Alma about IDEAS Training
12:53 back to the google webcast
1:12 check in at the main office for mail etc and share with Shelby computer and server issues
2:20 back to office and check e-mail
2:30 talk to Dana (DIS) - set up possible presentation on Jan 26
3:05 back to web server install
3:48 worked with Shelby to order MS Office licenses for mini labs
4:20 Finished the installation of CMSMadeSimple : will backup data from current server tomorrow and try to import it into the new system.
4:21 heading home
9:30 Call from Laura C (ECP Greenwood) needing help with video recording and security about special ed students for observation this was a long conversation due to security and technical issues. suggested using google apps with a security share only to the person that needed the video. Also suggested that she contact special ed people to verify the restrictions on security with special ed students that that issue was not technical. Explained packet capturing and other issues that could limit the security of the video through the internet
Talked to Pat about CIV for Friday Morning for the Media Center Coordinators
10:10 Returned to installing CMSMadeSimple
contact Ozark about IDEAS Training
11:10 Worked with Gina A (Greenwood) to correct naming in the PD / Leadership survey
then checked mail and helped Dean (Hackett) with E-rate issues.
11:20 Watched Google Security webcast
12:15 Worked on email issue with Marcia trying to fix Google forward with embedded images
Contacted Alma about IDEAS Training
12:53 back to the google webcast
1:12 check in at the main office for mail etc and share with Shelby computer and server issues
2:20 back to office and check e-mail
2:30 talk to Dana (DIS) - set up possible presentation on Jan 26
3:05 back to web server install
3:48 worked with Shelby to order MS Office licenses for mini labs
4:20 Finished the installation of CMSMadeSimple : will backup data from current server tomorrow and try to import it into the new system.
4:21 heading home
Monday, January 3, 2011
I have decided to move my work journal to Blogger. I think the organization that is built in will be better suited for this information than me having to create monthly pages and then labeling dates. Blogger will just keep the dates in order for me. I probably should have followed David Henderson's lead when he created his work journal this way.
I don't know if I will keep a timed journal or just a running summary of activities at this time and in fact may use a bit of both if the mood strikes me.
So far this morning I got my blog set up, caught up on email from the holidays and began updating servers. I also sent out a few communications concerning the TCC group and our plans for the rest of the year.
I will also be using this page to maintain links to various technology related sites that can be of assistance to me as well as other techs in my coop area.
Anyway, off to work on the server updates.
Contact Jason Kersh about server back up exchange at lunch
Assisted school with e-rate questions
Separated school district IDEAS registered users lists in preparation to sending to Supt and Principals for information and generating workshop or workdays for me to assist in getting every teacher registered
Worked with County Line school discussing their possible migration to Google Apps and Mail.
well the google share didn't share only a worksheet it shared the entire spreadsheet so I will have to research if that is possible
met with Harvie about BEE project confusion. got some information cleared up.
Research how to back up the web site to make some repairs to the system.
Work on IDEAS spreadsheets. unfortunate learning today.. you can't share individual sheets in a workbook in Google Apps. I will have to do a spreadsheet copy into a new spreadsheet for each district YUCK
Had to interrupt the IDEAS work to assist Pat with her computer and while I was doing that i was asked by Curtis to look at a broken shift key on his laptop. I referred him to Shelby. I will have to do some research on why Pat's computer is acting crazy.
Work on converting IDEAS to individual spreadsheets.
Set up a CIV with Southwest for tomorrow
discussed electronic submission of the annual report to ADE
Still working on sending the IDEAS registration sheets to send to district central office admins
have gotten some feedback from schools wanting to clear up their user data and also set up some workroom times to catch straggler registrations.
Sent all the districts their currently registered teachers lists time: 3:46
Caught up on some e-mail, checked a PLN and got ready to shut down Time: 4:04
I don't know if I will keep a timed journal or just a running summary of activities at this time and in fact may use a bit of both if the mood strikes me.
So far this morning I got my blog set up, caught up on email from the holidays and began updating servers. I also sent out a few communications concerning the TCC group and our plans for the rest of the year.
I will also be using this page to maintain links to various technology related sites that can be of assistance to me as well as other techs in my coop area.
Anyway, off to work on the server updates.
Contact Jason Kersh about server back up exchange at lunch
Assisted school with e-rate questions
Separated school district IDEAS registered users lists in preparation to sending to Supt and Principals for information and generating workshop or workdays for me to assist in getting every teacher registered
Worked with County Line school discussing their possible migration to Google Apps and Mail.
well the google share didn't share only a worksheet it shared the entire spreadsheet so I will have to research if that is possible
met with Harvie about BEE project confusion. got some information cleared up.
Research how to back up the web site to make some repairs to the system.
Work on IDEAS spreadsheets. unfortunate learning today.. you can't share individual sheets in a workbook in Google Apps. I will have to do a spreadsheet copy into a new spreadsheet for each district YUCK
Had to interrupt the IDEAS work to assist Pat with her computer and while I was doing that i was asked by Curtis to look at a broken shift key on his laptop. I referred him to Shelby. I will have to do some research on why Pat's computer is acting crazy.
Work on converting IDEAS to individual spreadsheets.
Set up a CIV with Southwest for tomorrow
discussed electronic submission of the annual report to ADE
Still working on sending the IDEAS registration sheets to send to district central office admins
have gotten some feedback from schools wanting to clear up their user data and also set up some workroom times to catch straggler registrations.
Sent all the districts their currently registered teachers lists time: 3:46
Caught up on some e-mail, checked a PLN and got ready to shut down Time: 4:04
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