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Final Apalachee Ridge Comments

  1. Name of team members: Alejandro Rosete
  2. Document versions and date: I had posted two updates on my podpress page
  3. Executive Summary
    1. The project status has not changed much at all from the last update.  I’m still working on my own trying to figure out how to troubleshoot Windows Server 2003 with no help from Melissa Raulston or he help desk, being told to “Buy a Book.”  Which I did and has no troubleshooting section for applying Group Policy to a client computer.  I am still putting almost all my free time into researching this and have been so burnt out that I’m not sure I even want to continue doing it, however, I have failure and I am not a quitter so I plan on eventually getting it the way Terrance wants.
    2. I highly recommend that the school not give up on this school project, after speaking with the student who made provided the biggest concern about the way things were run at the center she told me she wasn’t even doing the program for the learning aspect of the project and that she was only there to babysit the kids who never showed, mostly due to the summer and kids not being in school.  From what I gathered she was just mad that there were no kids to babysit.  There are still plenty of IT related projects that need to be done at that program.  There needs to be someone who knows their way around a server to adjust the downloading settings for the student profiles, install a central storage hard drive so that all the files saved by the students are saved into one location, apply group policy settings so that student homepages are all the same and complete routine maintenance on the server.  Melissa gave the center a network laser printer which needs a new part put into the paper feeder and LSS has ignored my emails about that, as well as Melissa.  Now I understand that Melissa is a busy woman, but until she decided to turn her back on ARLC she used to return my emails with useful information almost immediately.  Since that day I have not received one response.  The Center still needs a website, which I was going to do but was convinced by Melissa not to even waste my time.  The fall semester starts soon and will be most likely gaining a large number of students there who will need the support of an IT staff.
    3. The project met most of its goals up until the point that the 3 team members were pulled out of the project.  As stated in the initial instructions of the assignment, the furniture was moved around to be better organized and everything was completed, including straightening up the center in preparation of the center.  The failure was the city taking too long to provide Terrance with a budget to run the camp successfully, which is pretty much the reason the girls were pulled.  There are still server issues that need to be addressed as well as the website, and beginning in the Fall semester there will need to be help in taking care of these children.
    4. I have learned a great deal about Server 2003 from this project.  I have also learned that not everyone was there to learn IT stuff which became obvious when the complaining about the children began.

 

 

Communication Plan

Communication Plan

Date: July 27, 2008

Project Name:  Apalachee Ridge Learning Center

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Introduction

This document provides a summary of the communication plan for the Apalachee Ridge Digital Media and Technology Learning Center.  It includes a list of the main audiences for this project, the goals for each of those audiences, the method(s) used to reach of the audiences and the timing of the communications.  In many cases these communication activities will be included and described further in the project’s work breakdown structure.
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Audiences

Sponsor (or other audience):

The overall supervisor/sponsor of the learning center is Terrance McNeil.  Mr. McNeil has a background in music production and education.   

            Goals

Server maintenance is a must.  Mr. McNeil would like the student profiles to all have the same homepages applied through the server.  He would also like to prevent student profiles from downloading content to the computer they are using.  A website is a request, however, due to internal complications that may never launch so it has been put on hold.  He also would like a central storage point where all the files saved under student profiles would also be saved in one location on the server.  Any other ideas as that may assist in improving or implementing technology into the learning center must be communicated with Mr. McNeil for approval prior to working on anything.

            Method

Brainstorming ideas will be discussed with Mr. McNeil prior to the center opening every day, as well as during staff meetings in the board room at the end of each day.  Hiring help is also possibly going to be a requirement for this Fall.

Project Team:

The project team consisted of Kristen Norena, Meka Adderly and Janeca Jackson.  They were going to be assisting in the babysitting aspect of the camp as well as implementing technology education into the students education but has since been pulled from the project.

            Goals

Any ideas that the project team may have which would improve the aspect of the learning center must be communicated with Mr. McNeil for approval.  Some of the major goals are server maintenance, being the only person there with absolutely no knowledge of a server makes it hard to maintain, even after I bought books to teach myself.  Website is necessary, but again, with no guarantee of a launch there was no reason to begin construction.

            Method

Brainstorming ideas will be discussed with Mr. McNeil prior to the center opening every day, as well as during staff meetings in the board room at the end of each day.
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Comments

The computers have been updated and cleaned, as well as separated between working and non-working.  The initial computer lab still needs its own separate printer.  Server maintenance is also still a major need.  Website creation will begin next semester if FSU continues to provide support to this project.  In order for this project to be successful there will need to be a team sent to the center next semester, preferably on willing to learn IT related skills and not child education skills. 

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Posted: August 7th, 2008 under Apalachee Ridge.
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