March 30, 2012

Friday: TGIF My son is ill so I am going back home but may get to come back later today. I have left instructions on the back table and put a copy on the clipboard. If everyone can get a classroom and the student pc's in that room done today, we will be doing great. Do not forget to fix the e-mail accounts after the conversion.

Please be sure to blog for the entire week if you are behind. Text me if you have questions or you can call.

March 29, 2012

Thursday: I think it should be Friday. This has been a very long week. We are making good progress on our conversion. We will concentrate on the MS now and then come back to the HS to do the student computers. We also need to do work on 4 computer labs to get ready for EOC testing. Yippeee!!! the fun never ends.

March 28, 2012

Wednesday: Oops, missed blogging yesterday. I had to go straight to the elementary before school even started to help with logins and messed up e-mail after we did all the conversions on Monday evening. Thank you so much to Ben, Devun, and Grant for helping on Monday. We made good progress and that will help move this project along. We still have so much to do so please multitask (I hope you know what that means) when you are in a classroom. While you are waiting for a machine to reboot, go to a student machine and put passwords on all the accounts and the next time it reboots or you are running the wizzard, take Novell off the student machines. Multitasking is a great skill to have and will serve you well in college and in your future career. Some are always better than others at it but you can improve with practice. :~)

Have a good day.

March 26, 2012

Monday: Please confirm with me today if you will be here tonight or not. We will meet in the HS teachers lounge and eat dinner there. Also tell me what type of soda you like and I will see what I can do to have it here. I was thinking of doing the MS but I've changed my mind and we will work on the elementary tonight. The MS is on the same schedule as we are but the Elem is not and it will be harder to get into those rooms. Have a good Monday.

March 23, 2012

Friday: The virus is a mean one. I still have it on my thumb drive but I think we have the computers clean. Amber's thumb drive is infected again also. It is driving me nuts!

we will start on the MS conversion later today and for sure on Monday. Please reply to my Wednesday blog about your availability next week.

Have a good weekend.

March 22, 2012

Thursday: Please see my update post from yesterday and tell me of your availability next week.

When you do the changes to a teachers pc for the new server, it will wipe out their password for e-mail. If I forget to give you the password, please text me and ask for it and put it in before you leave the room. I believe we will be moving to the MS later today or tomorrow.

Wednesday UPDATE

I would like to ask if anyone would be willing (hopefully everyone) to donate an evening of working on our conversion to the new server. I would provide dinner (pizza or El Jimado or something good) at 6 p.m. and then we'd work for about 2.5 to 3 hours and see how much we can get knocked out in one of the other buildings.

My proposal would be for Monday, March 26 as first choice and Wednesday, March 28 as second choice.

Everyone, please answer on your willingness and availability to do this.

March 21, 2012

Wednesday: I hope everyone had a great Spring Break. I did which makes it even harder to come back to work. At least it is Wednesday already and we will have a weekend again soon.

The conversion is going slow but we must keep moving forward. We will all be sick of it by the time it is over. I hope to get the HS teachers finished today and then move to the teachers at the MS and then over to the elementary. The student machines will be next. Please work hard and try multi-tasking. This is just like a job and you are graded mostly on working hard like it were a job. Thanks!

March 15, 2012

Thursday: Do not forget that your reflection is due today. I will read them this afternoon. Have a great Spring Break!!!

March 14, 2012

Wednesday: Today we will be working on transferring over the HS teacher/staff machines to the new server. It is a lengthy process but a necessity. Please, Please call me if you have questions or it doesn't follow like it should. Please, please follow every step of the instructions. I don't know this system at all and would not be able to fix what is messed up. :~)


Have a good day!

March 13, 2012

Tuesday: I received several hours of instruction this morning on setting up the pc's to connect to our new server. This seems like it is going to be very time consuming. we have over 400 pc's that we will need to spend about 20+ minutes on each one. I am asking that if you have a study hall during your college classes that you will consider coming to my office and helping to do this process so we can get it done in less time. Otherwise I'm really worried about how long it will take us. The teachers machines are our first priority and then we will go back and do the student machines. On top of that we really need to clean out the pc's with air. We'll see about that in April.

I have my instructions ready and Alex is testing them out right now. You will be busy for the next several weeks. :~)

March 12 Update

I've noticed many of you checking your phones and texting during class time. You have special permission to use your phones with me and not the rest of the world. There are other teachers noticing this and some of you are doing it while sitting in the lab and other students can see you. Not cool. Do not cause me to lose this privilege of using our phones to communicate with each other during class. Please use your special priviliges from this class in a responsible way and keep the phones put away except for class reasons.

March12, 2012

Monday: Well the server is up and running but only a couple machines are attached to it at the moment. We have copied the files I had backed up off the old server onto the new one but the drives are not mapped to them and the information is not accessible yet. This is a big learning experience for me and will take some time to figure out all the ways of doing things. I hope to meet with Andrew again today.

The small laptops came in for Mrs. Abel also. My first priority today for you all is to get those setup and running. They do not have cd drives in them so installing Word and powerpoint will be off of a thumb drive. You also need to put Vixera on them from the thumb drive and setup the wireless. I think we should be able to get these done today. Devun is typing up instruction as he goes through the process this morning.

Have a good (short) week.

March 8, 2012

Thursday: I need to catch up on anything I can today because the new server should be here first thing tomorrow morning. Hopefully I'll know what we need to do by 10 or so.

Finishing up your Career Project: The reflection paper needs to be a paper--I believe in an English teachers mind that is at least 5 paragraphs. I think that you should be able to talk about what you are going to do for the rest of your life in 5 paragraphs. You can remind me in the paper what the career choice is that you have most likely made, why you made it, what surprised you or something you learned about that career in the research you did, what you learned from the survey you took and what your goals are in that career field, maybe 5 and 10 years down the road. Create this document on a Google Doc and SHARE it with me at lori.kempker@gmail.com. I don't like getting the e-mail links only. Those seem to get lost. This paper is due by Thursday, March 8. I will have all afternoon to read them because I only see 3 parents during parent/teacher conferences. The grade will go on 4 quarter.

If you have questions, ask!

March 7, 2012

wednesday: I think I have a server figured out and it should be on the premisis on Friday. We will probably have to visit every pc and do something to get Novell off and whatever we need on for Windows 2008. It is a learning experience for me and you! Lots of work ahead.

March 6, 2012

Tuesday: Yes, I am late posting. What a hectic week with the server down. I'm spending most of my time putting out little fires of things coming up and trying to get a quote on a new server and investigating enough that I get the right thing for us down the road. Please think back to yesterday and blog what you did. The quarter ends Friday and I will be looking back to be sure everyone has kept up.

March 5, 2012

Monday: This could be a very long day for me if the Novell server doesn't get fixed. :(

Not sure what I will have for each of you as I will probably be tied up with the server for part of the day. I do want to e-mail your surveys if we can. Please talk to me about this.

Post what you ended up spending your hour doing.

March 2, 2012

Friday: I did not post for yesterday since it was a short day but you need to blog today. The quarter ends next week and I'll look back through the blogs to see how many times you didn't blog--hint hint.

Today didn't start off too well with the server going down. It will be down until Monday at least. We have some other minor repairs and I want to get the monitors delivered to the MS today if it is not raining. We shall see, it may be Monday.

I also have some core data to get uploaded today and what not. I would like to talk to you about your questionnaire's if I haven't done so yet. You must come remind me. I have a few addresses for people to send e-mails.

Have a good weekend.