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Fall Follies
September 9, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
Every June my ed tech colleague and I meet and plan and strategize, saying “This summer will be different! Our new computer image will be flawless! It will be cloned onto every machine without a hitch! We’re so organized this year, nothing can go wrong! We’ll come back in August ready to focus on curriculum and teaching!” And yet, each late August, we return to campus to find that the image had problems, that Leopard won’t print on our Windows print server, that a bunch of machines were overlooked, that several of the student laptops are mysteriously missing and several more are missing keys on the keyboards.
Is it us? Unrealistic expectations? Too many things to roll out at once? Disorganized folks on the tech end of our department? Faulty equipment? I fear that the answer is one of those annoying “it’s just the nature of technology…” type of things. But sigh…it’s the beginning of the school year and we’re backpedaling, scrambing, covering, and improvising despite our best-laid plans. Breathe…
