This week I worked with my school's Educational Technologist (E.T.), Mike, to review some of the job duties that comes with the job. I looked at how he communicates with other E.T.'s in the district about solving technology problems and how he accesses the help requests. Our district has a program called Help Desk. This is where teachers enter information into a computer form about any technology issues they are having (projector won't turn on, password resets, etc.). Most of the time the tech people can fix these issues from their office, but in some cases our E.T. will address the issue. Also, the E.T.s are responsible for the inventory on all technology in the school. He had to get the serial numbers from all the SMART boards and projectors from all the classrooms. I decided to do this task for him. It was pretty interesting because the projectors are mounted to the front of the SMART boards and most of the boards can't be lowered. Since I'm barely 5 feet tall, I had to get a ladder to see the serial numbers. Since the ladder weighed about as much as I do, I got creative and used three egg crates stacked to reach the top. This was much easier than dragging a huge ladder around all the different buildings!
Just be careful!
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