Wednesday, I spent the day hoping to help one of the schools, but instead had to wait on the elevator guy. He got to the office and did his own troubleshooting. When it was all said and done, he concluded that his modem had gone bad and thus was the source of our elevator communication troubles. He bypassed the modem (the modem is not necessary for operation) and had us up and running with the phone securely connected and working! Excellent!
I passed time while waiting for the elevator guy by cleaning my office some more and installing Vineland one the early childhood computers. I also began prep work for the TIE meeting coming up on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
I also answered emails, took phone calls, and had a discussion with an antivirus vendor about a new product.
Thursday, I spent the morning in the monthly state tech meeting. We met with Belinda Kittrell regarding ERate updates and issues, then met with DIS for their announcement of the new B.E.E. program to provide more bandwidth to schools. It's a partnership between DIS and local telcos. I will be sharing the information with my area techs, as they have been begging for a bandwidth solution for quite some time.
The afternoon presented itself with two great keynote programs for the TIE program: Tim Holt talked about problem-based learning and Tony Vincent talked about better presentations (specifically Pechu Kacha and Ignite). The notes were taken 'live' and posted on Plurk, Facebook, and other social outlets.
Friday, the group was broken into three subgroups for breakout sessions. My order of sessions went from Tim Holt's Professional Learning Communities/Networks to Tony Vincent's Ignite presentation development session (we are to develop an Ignite-based preso for Saturday), and then to Jason Borgen's session on advanced Google.
Again, notes were streamed to Plurk, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
I will try to collate notes and post those here for your perusal.
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