Helping HD Teachers is Awesome

I had the chance to visit South Side Elementary this morning and the Middle School in the afternoon.  Both visits provided an amplitude of opportunities to help out teachers and to get to know them better personally and with their comfortability with using technology.  For both schools, I have been trying to resolve their Gmail issues since Google transitioned some stuff on August 31.  1 thing teachers are starting to remember is that they need to type in their full address with the @hdcsd.org when logging into the Gmail, Google Docs and//or Google Calendar accounts online.  Google made a transition where we have to tell them the @hdcsd.org to let them know it is a group account and not a personal account.
Specifically at South Side Elementary I had the chance to help a teacher to use her wireless LCD projector, a teacher to better use her TwoUp application and finally located 1 of the missing 2 power adapters for a laptop on the laptop carts.  Helping problem solve the wireless issue with the teacher's LCD projector was an awesome experience to work at something, and to finally resolve the problem after many trials and errors. Tried a variety of things and finally got it figure out before I left.
Specifically at the Middle School I helped some teachers transition into using the MS Laptop Google Calendar instead of using a hard copy paper calendar.  The purpose of providing a MS Laptop Google Calendar instead of a hard copy paper calendar is to provide the teachers an opportunity to login and signup for the laptops during present and future events, and most importantly to see the other teachers that have the carts checked out presently and in the future, instead of having to hunt the carts down and find the hard copy calendar.
Hopefully this transition for the Middle School teaches will be a successful one as my hopes is for the South Side teachers to transition into using a SS Laptop Google Calendar during the beginning portion of October.