small IT support staff and for teachers. Our application - carts on each
floor that are moved from classroom to classroom is unworkable. For this
reason, I look forward to the day when we no longer use carts at all. In
fairness to the few teachers who make an attempt, they have very little
time for management and supervision as they rush to different rooms,
dragging or pulling the heavy load along with all the other things on
their minds to start and finish classes. We also have difficulty with
laptops that go missing from carts, "borrowed", and otherwise from facult=
y
storage areas.
Linda
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
Monday, March 15, 2010 at 11:00 PM -0400 wrote:
>Granted, the MacBooks do seem significantly sturdier, but part of my =20
>question is prompted by being caught between teachers who don't =20
>supervise use of the lab (you wouldn't believe the difference between =20
>how the lab goes out--cords neatly wrapped, laptops all in place--and =20
>how it comes back--laptops in various states of charge / disarray, =20
>adapters left out on top of the cart instead of plugged in, the =20
>printer jammed) and administration who doesn't understand the amount =20
>of triage that goes on between lab uses. I've begun rigorously =20
>documenting everything (and I do mean everything), to include before =20
>and after photographs, but would like to try to address as much of =20
>this up front as possible...particularly with administrative support =20
>behind astringent preemptive approach.
___________________________
Linda S. Robinson
Director of Technology=20
Gann Academy-The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston
333 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452
Website: http://www.gannacademy.org
Telephone: 781.642.6800 x 211
Fax: 781.642.6805
e-mail: lrobinson@gannacademy.org
=93The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.
The paths to it are not found, but made; and the activity of making them
changes both the maker and the destination.=94 John Schaartest
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