End+of+Yr+Info

End of the Year Technology Information: The end of the year is quickly approaching. Here are some things you need to know.

**Equipment Check-Out:** Please use the [|electronic Equipment Check-out Form] this year to let us know what you will be taking home with you for the summer. (This form is in place of the paper form we used last year.)

This includes:
 * Teacher Laptop
 * Laptop power charger
 * Laptop dongle for Macs
 * iPad
 * iPad Charger


 * We have lost several pieces of equipment this year, I ask that you be diligent about locking up your classroom equipment as well as keeping track of what you have. **

Items from this list that you do not take home will be locked up in the tech lab.

**Classroom Desktop computers:** These should be left plugged in and on. I hope to send students around to help with cleaning. If you have students willing and able to clean, send them to me and I will give them the supplies and demo on cleaning.

**Document Camera carts** - clean (dust off) the equipment, only disconnect the cables from the wall (power cord and cables to the wall plate, no need to completely dismantle this system; it will be easier to reconnect in the Fall if you only disconnect two cables!); lay a sheet/cloth over the cart for the summer. Please store your remote controls with the equipment. **Remove all batteries so they do not corrode over the summer.**

**Interactive Whiteboards** - please store your pen; again remove the battery for the summer.

==The following items should be returned to the computer lab no later than Monday, June 24th @ 12:00! I will definitely accept items earlier. ==

Grade 1 and 2 ipad carts. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">Grade 3, 4 and 5 laptop carts. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">Art ipad cart.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">All classrooms with ipods, please store them in your laptop or ipad cart. **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Please make sure all laptops, ipads, headphone splitters, microphones, chargers... are in the cart before you return them.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">*It would be wonderful if 3rd, 4th and 5th graders could help with the cleaning of the laptops. I will be touching base with teachers in the next few days. I have cleaning supplies in the lab.*

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lab Schedules...

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5;">The main computer lab will close at 2:00 pm on Friday, June 21st. The main lab will be open on Monday for regularly scheduled tech classes only.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5;">The hallway lab will close at 2:00pm on Friday, June 21st. (If this possess any problems, please let me know.)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Summer Access to computers: **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> As always, the Technology Department will be very busy this summer with server maintenance/upgrades, new computers and so forth. As of yet, I don't have any dates as to when the computers will be up and/or down. If you think you will need access to any files over the summer, please transfer them to your teacher laptop so you can access them whenever you want. Please plan ahead. We will keep the front office up to date with information and we will send out email updates when possible.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> If you have any questions, please see Beth and/or Rita. Thanks.