Wednesday

- enabled "games" module in Moodle; allows teacher to, e.g., make a hangman game using words from a course glossary.

- tuned energy saver settings for RMS labs -- automatic startup at 7am and shutdown at 4pm on weekdays. Had this last year but needed to restore settings since we reimaged and reconfigured everything.

- attended K12/curriculum meeting with somewhat vague agenda. Discussed MCS tech training day on Oct 5.

- Started the ball rolling on getting the Chrome device management console enabled for our domain. This will let us see what the options would be like for managing carts etc. of ChromeBooks. Also found info about how to turn older netbooks into Chromebooks via Chromium (opensource fork of Chrome project).

- Archived PowerSchool backups. Keeping dumpfiles from 1st of every month going back to 2009 (ish) and keeping every day's dumpfile for past month. Need to make a more regular habit of this.

- Updated various Mac servers, cleared stuck print jobs.

- i4see system granted privileges for Sarah Curtis for Title IIA grants

- Made appointment for October webinar/confcall with SHI's ProCurve specialist to begin speccing out new switches for HHS.

- Helped develop a streamlined workflow for running software updates en masse via ARD

- Established that Friday's DNS weirdness fixed itself; probably related to recent widespread ISP troubles with google.com confirmed by colleague Jordan DesRoches

- Filed accounting paperwork for Aruba support agreement for 12-13

- Tried out new Kurzweil-esque Chrome add-on for text-to-speech and other learning tools in Google Apps -- forwarded to techs and sped director

- Did POs for reimbursement for various things (network port faceplates, USB extenders, USB thumbdrives)

- Made donations/payments to several software companies whose products we use heavily (DeployStudio, Apache, GAM, DiskWarrior, Carbon Copy Cloner, WinClone)