Currituck County Schools Media and Tech

This evening was the opening session of NECC 2008.  The speaker was James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds.  It was a very interesting speech that made we want to read the book.  The subtitle of the book summarizes the premise, “Why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies, and nations.”

On my way to the opening session, I rode the elevator down from the 4th floor on The Menger Hotel with 3 other people going to the conference.  One of the ladies jokingly called her friend a geek.  I suggested that was a compliment and the others agreed.  (One of the ladies remarked it was only cool to be a geek AFTER high school.)  It was impressive to see the number of attendees at the conference.  All of the attendees may not claim geekhood, but I’m sure they all have a little geek blood in their veins!

We have just finished up our second maintenance weekend.  Our wide area network circuits that connect our schools together have been upgraded to 100 meg at each school.  Our Internet connection has been transferred to MCNC.  They provide a more direct connection to DPI resources, including NCWISE.  Hopefully, this will improve performance for all users.

Next on the agenda for his summer to is to upgrade memory in many classroom computers, replace some of the oldest classroom computers (Dell 150), and prepare for opening two new schools.

Busy, Busy, Busy.

I’m sitting in an NCWISE scheduling workshop with elementary principals and data managers.  We are learning how to schedule students in NCWISE.  Take a look at the pics to see how hard they are working!

This week we are also working on the following: Supporting summer school at CCHS, Installing new computers in the drafting lab at CCHS, preparing to inventory and image the new computers at Jarvisburg, addressing workorders.

We are happy to have Donna McCloud join us today to help with the summer work.