Summer Work - Week 2/3
I started off week 2 with a trip to Waskatneau in order to reimage the student laptops. I was a little nervous at first because the last time I was imaging the student laptops in Waskatneau, the laptops were about 95% done when the power cut out on me for about 2 minutes. This little cut on power caused all that installing/work to get corrupted and I had to start all over again. Luckily it didn't happen this time. The rest of the second week was spent repairing old laptops that were out of warranty and converting some laptops into student laptops for a school. This process is a little bit of a pain in the butt because of the labelling and cleaning that needs to be done. But the laptops sure like nice in the end. I also spent time getting all the laptops/equipment ready for the new teachers that will be rolling in next year (12 new recruits i think)
Week 3 was a lot of fun because there was lots of stuff on the go. I spent lots of time at Notre Dame High getting the new Comm Tech Room ready. Our Comm Tech room will almost be like a mini studio where students can film/record audio or video and use various technology equipment to present them in exciting ways. This is a pretty big project and there are lots of pieces that need to fall into place for this room to be finished. First I had to pull in some new network ports (14) since there will be a few computers in there.
I also spent a solid couple days doing nothing but cleaning the laptop carts and relabelling. Another exciting thing about this week was the release of Apple's newest operating system OS X Lion 10.7. It boasts a lot of new features (some good and some scary). I've been playing around on it for quite a bit and I could talk about it here, but I think I might save it for another blog post because there is lots to cover. If I have time i'll post a review. But that is pretty much it for now.
