FRIT 7739

SHUTDOWN! Like everyone else, week 11 was almost a total loss as far as logging time at sites. The only "help" I was allowed to be for anyone was at DSC. The campus was closed - all classes and all but essential office personnel. I worked, finished, and submitted my part of the Digital Citizenship collaboration to Dr. Butori for her approval. The video (hook) portion can be seen here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1INfU21JZxE-vt6bnWlYVoj97_hqYGFad.       We have remained in communication via email: Mails from Dr. Butori. Note the DigCitDSC. I had helped my Instructional Technologist, Dr, Butori, and DSC's OCIS (Office of Computers and Information Systems) with a video conference set up for a nursing instructor. The lady was doing a video conference with University of West Georgia to practice a dissertation defense. It just so happened that the shut down affected her (the nursing instructor) actual defense. Originally, she was supposed to travel to Carr...

Like the rest of you, it seems the world went crazy for toilet paper over the weekend. COVID-19 delivered pandemonium with the pandemic. Everything that I had planned for my projects came to a screeching halt when schools closed. What started as a 2 week shutdown, turned into the rest of the semester. My company asked all employees with technical jobs, which includes me, to work from home until health officials know more about this virus. I was scheduled to do a presentation on Digital Citizenship at Dalton State College for their Bold Talks bi-annual seminar. I was also supposed to help with some of the other presentations, but the event was cancelled. I continue to work on the Google Sheets project for Shaw. I am spending hours getting screen cast videos worked out. It is harder than it looks to get a tutorial just right. A couple of hours and 4 or 5 (or 10) takes, and I tell myself that I've covered everything - mostly because I tire of listening to myself I think. I was ...

COVID-19 looks like it might adversely affect the semester. My company (Shaw Industries) is asking employees not to travel between sites unless necessary to do their jobs. So far, this has not played into my staff development project, but I may be asked to present my instruction online. As things are right now, I will not be allowed to present my lesson in person at a Shaw facility that is not Tricycle. My boss (Aernout Hetem) has asked all Tricycle employees to work from home as well. I do not know how this will effect my grade, but I will have to do as the company requests. I have put a lot of work into this lesson so far - here's hoping. Similarly, my Instructional Technologist at Dalton State is spending the week making sure that all classes can be delivered online if asked to do so. The University System of Georgia at Athens has asked all the state schools to be prepared to go totally online if needed. What will this do for students studying medicine - those that require cli...

This week I will be shadowing Dr. Theresa Butori, the Instructional Technologist at Dalton State College (DSC). Today (Monday, March 2nd) we started setting up to test i-clickers. The i-clickers had not been used for several months. The first order of business was checking and replacing the batteries in the student units that would not power on. There were 24 student remotes, of which 12 would not power on. I removed the batteries and replaced them with new batteries. 3 of the devices had old batteries that had leaked and the corrosion would not allow the new batteries to make connection. I disassembled those units, cleaned the corrosion as best I could with the equipment I had, reassembled, and replaced the batteries. I got all of the units to work. I marked the corroded units with blue permanent marker so that they would be easily identified if they give problems later. With the corrosion issues. I decided to remove the batteries from every unit. The batteries are installed...

Busiest week at work so far. Customer issues with licenses and with software updates always take first priority. But still, I managed to get another machine done. As I have posted pictures of hardware already, I thought I would get some images of the base level software installation screens. The first shot is of the first licensing screen. The box on the right, License Registration application, is where I assign a blank hardware lock a number and give it the bits it will need to run the software. The bits on the hardware lock must be programmed with a code that will match a code that resides in the computer's registry. The registry entries are built during the software installation. The code in the installation will "check" the hardware locks' bit settings and see that the registry codes match. If they do, the installation will complete and the software will work properly. If anything does not match, codes or bit settings, the software will not work.  The se...

Web/phone discussion of Professional Development progress delivering Google Sheets instruction. So far, both Miles and Doug are happy with the progress. They agreed to begin looking at delivering the instruction live. So far, they believe the instruction may work with an on-boarding session, but we will see if there is interest as a standalone session. Since the meeting was done as a call, there are no images associated with the discussion this time. We did go over the progression of training and the duration of each point of instruction. We talked about the importance of evaluation and how to implement it. We also spoke about how much of the live instruction might be incorporated into the desired hosted instruction, what the live instruction will indicate about the deficiencies in the instruction, location considerations, as well as the participants (to a degree). We agreed to record the online instruction as .mp4 using Camtasia, and edited (finalized) with Adobe Final Cut. This i...