(mailed and posted)

Hi, Zhang!

Welcome back, it's real good to have you working with us at Ray again this year.

I'm glad you and Ms. Zivko are hitting it off well.  As you observe, having a teacher in that lab regularly changes the whole school's attitude toward how and why to use that lab, and how to treat it.  

Sorry to hear there was some miscommunication about the no-students day (professional development day) on Friday.  If we had given you enough warning to arrange a time/way to get in, it would have been a good opportunity for computer management in the classrooms.  (BTW, if you're not familiar with the entrance on the East side of the old building, by the parking lot, it's worth finding or having someone show you.  Sometimes that door is unlocked when the front is locked, and sometimes the office staff will respond to a buzz from there when they are not answering intercom calls from the front doors.)

A little before UofC quarter started back, Ms. Zivko and I did some work on the INSTR home folders on Ray-srv01 and prep for individual student logins.  She is not planning to start the 5th- and 6th-graders on their own logins until closer to the end of the quarter or maybe January.  But sometime we should get together with you on monitoring free space and usage in the shared login space, plus getting backups going again.  

All the schools (dangerous generalization!) are moving towards flat-panel screens everywhere and ditching the clunky CRTs.  So there is little or no room for sending surplus CRTs elsewhere.  We think the right general strategy would be to hold onto a small handful of these for possible "emergency" replacements, but get rid of most of them via CPS asset-disposal.

Thanks again,

  ==Mitch


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