Monday and Tuesday (2/27 and 2/28)

Monday - took the Etherscope to Fouke.  Their network looked pretty good!  They had some IPX traffic (printers) that we got under control and our walkthrough of the wireless network found a mobile hotspot and a Nintendo handheld device.

Tuesday - Took the Etherscope to Hope Schools.  We found several issues - some duplicate IPs, some IPX traffic (mostly printers), a few others.  Spent the day working on those plus some other issues and topics - iPads, New Tech school, new administration, various Mac OS apps, etc.

Week of 11-28-2011

Monday - In the office.  I answered voice mail and email from the previous week.  I ran out to the Hope early childhood program to troubleshoot a computer problem.  Turned out the maintenance folks had cleaned over the holiday break and knocked the power cord loose on a video distribution box.  I employed the help of the DL Coordinator and we updated printer drivers in the APSCN mini lab.  I worked with our bookkeeper to locate various items requested on the auditor inventory pull (three servers, an Opscan scanner, a projector, and a partridge in a pear tree.... Sorry, couldn't resist the holiday spirit there!  I have talked with no fewer than three vendors and I shared the USAC E-Rate Window announcement via Twitter and FaceBook.  I helped a staff member point her home page to the company's new website address.  As this post was created at 10:30am on Monday, there is still a full day of tech ahead.  This post may or may not be updated to reflect everything done today (hopefully, I will!!).

A few of our DTU-16D's have been acting a bit weird - namely, when an internal extension pages directly to certain phones, a loud buzzing sound could be heard in the background.  After swapping units, I narrowed the issue down to the base/handset itself.  Luckily, I have a couple left from the old building and took care of the main users with the issue.  I have a repair/exchange in place for the two phones, so that should be fixed when I get back into the office next week.

Tuesday - OUT

Wednesday-Friday - I will be at the AESA National Conference in Colorado.  I will be co-presenting with Harry Dickens in one session and helping to man the technology for Phoebe in another session.  I will also be attending various breakout sessions, including the 2011 Digital Jam hosted by Kevin Honeycutt.  I will be posting updates to twitter (@davidinark), FaceBook, and at least one of my personal blogs (http://www.poppedinmyhead.com).

Moodle Monday

Phoebe asked me to generate a list of TIE modules with their authors/editors as we move into a new phase for the TIE program.  The modules will be retooled for a hybrid environment using the Moodle CMS program.

Last Friday, I installed Moodle on a server we have and then I spent time on Monday working out kinks.  The main one being mail delivery (or the lack thereof).  I installed Moodle on a Windows server.  The included mail subsystems with Moodle would not play nice with our Google Apps account.  So, I finally managed to get that working after quite a bot of tinkering with ini files and php configs.  I do need to make a couple of tweaks for security, but that should be a simple doing compared to the hoops I had to jump through in order to get mail working.

I suppose there are more effective ways to get mail delivery working, but my way works and I could not find a comprehensive solution online.  I wrote up my solution and posted it to our locally held techblog: techblog.k12.ar.us

I also made a tech support visit to the early childhood program in Hope.  Not sure what was going on, but they had intermittent Internet connectivity issues.  Possibly weather related. 

Tuesday, I have a presentation project to finish for Phoebe.  I also have a phone call with George Lieux scheduled for the morning regarding the new direction of TIE, and possibly a call with Harry Dickens and  Kevin Honeycutt regarding the upcoming AESA conference.

The offices are closed Wed-Fri for Thanksgiving.

Catching up... again.

Monday, August 29 - OUT

Tuesday, August 30 - Attended the "Get Motivated" seminar at Verizon Arena

Wednesday, August 31 - OUT

Thursday, September 1 - Blevins schools, worked on several server issues, workstation issues, networking issues all day

Friday, September 2 -

Monday - September 5 - Office Closed for Labor Day

Tuesday, September 6 - State tech meeting at Arch Ford Co-op

Wednesday, September 7 - Office and then to Hope Schools to help with conversion from Exchange to Google Docs, discuss iPad implementation, then office in afternoon to troubleshoot local network issues.

Thursday, September 8 - Help set up for a workshop at co-op. At 1030am, vendor shows up to install/connect new 6 Meg IMA!  After brief delay, 6 Meg IMA up and running after lunch.  Reconfigured local network and performed other troubleshooting tasks at co-op.

Friday, September 9 - OUT, though came in to office for a bit in order to restore connectivity to APSCN printer following the reconfiguration from the previous day.