Though we use student labor, that is not the only option. A couple other ideas come to mind…
1) Use college students as part of an unpaid internship 2) Use volunteers (maybe buy them pizza at the end of the day) Thomas C. Steele Technology Director Manteno CUSD #5 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alicia M.M.Kessler Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:31 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] OT: summer cleaning....really worth it? Check lists would be good. I'm not sure I'd be able to get student helpers hired.....but maybe. I run into headaches in trying to get the elementary/middle school rooms connected while getting 2-8 AR ready for the start of school. I think I need to have a meeting with admins and establish that AR simply won't be ready until the 4th day of school or something. I don't get class lists from admins until a week before school starts......then to get new students added and classes setup and enrolled - ick. I have one custodian that is destroying the floor jacks in our new building. He won't bend over to unplug anything, he jerks it from standing level. The main custodian who is awesome has talked until he's blue in the face......so I'm going to go to the admins....oh well. Just grouchy for a Wednesday I guess. Alicia M. M. Kessler It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. ~Garrison Keillor ________________________________ From: "Steele, Thomas C" <[email protected]> To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 8:55:39 AM Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] OT: summer cleaning....really worth it? Good luck getting that changed!! Maintenance folks tend to be the unmovable wall. We fought the same battle for years and finally conceded that we were not going to get the maintenance practices changed so we looked for ways to deal with it. We started by hiring student workers during the summer. They go through and re-image/clean all the computers. They go in behind the maintenance crews and set up and reconnect all the systems. We have been tweaking the system for a few years now and for the past couple years have streamlined the process to where it is no longer a problem. At the end of the school year, we require teachers, as part of their final check-off before they can leave for the year, to label all of their computers with their room number, mark all cables with the port number they are plugged in to, and disconnect them from the wall (we get about 95% compliance with this, after we explained that this helps guarantee they get the right computers back in their room). In August, we do check list for our student workers to go through each room, log on to each computer, ensure it is connecting to the network properly, in the correct subnet and has the correct image applied. The students then sign off on the checklist and leave an inspection card for the teacher with their name and the date the room was checked. This is the 2nd year using this system and for two years running we have not had any issues to speak of regarding systems not re-connected at the start of the year. Of course, we have all the OTHER issues related to start of school and this was particularly bad this year due to the Windows 7 implementation. I would be happy to share our checklists if anyone is interested – just let me know off-list. -TS Thomas C. Steele Technology Director Manteno CUSD #5 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alicia M.M.Kessler Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 8:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [tech-geeks] OT: summer cleaning....really worth it? <rant> It's the what....4th week of school.....still dealing with problems of everything being taken out of classrooms, staff who can't or refuse to figure out how to plug anything in back and want everything moved and then complain about what I get done in a day.....ie the filter was blocking the Eastern Paws or whatever the course work is they are trying to do during school time! Isn't there a better way than rucking everything out in the hall every summer?? ok. sigh. I'm done. </rant> Alicia M. M. Kessler It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. ~Garrison Keillor
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