{"id":50,"date":"2012-06-04T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/terrencejackson\/?p=50"},"modified":"2012-06-24T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T23:11:15","slug":"week-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/terrencejackson\/2012\/06\/04\/week-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3\/4: Media Services & Administrative Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When the cat’s away the mice will play”….<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a very clich\u00e9 maxim but, it precisely explains the events on a college campus when a vast majority of the students are away.<\/p>\n

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The campus, particularly the IT department, is “playing” right now. Many things are being changed. Departments are merging; new ones are being created; old ones, now obsolete, cease to exist. For these reasons I’ve decided to merge,<\/em>\u00a0weeks three and four. Crazy idea, I know.<\/p>\n

Week three I was at Media Services, a department previously responsible for various tasks. They were responsible for classroom media support. Such things like projectors, instructor carts speaker system etc. were<\/span> their responsibility. They also set up audio\/video systems for guest speakers and lectures.<\/p>\n

The department is being eliminated and is currently in the transition period. Its responsibilities and task will be divided amongst the other subgroups of IT. Because of this transition\/elimination there wasn’t much to be done. The few tasks to complete were very basic:\u00a0 maintenance on various printers around campus, picking up a conference phone from a meeting and packing things for the transition.<\/p>\n

Week four was more productive. It sadly was only one day because of the holiday and a bus failing to show up. In the one day in Administrative Computing with Patti I learned a lot about a subject in which I’m very ignorant, coding and programming.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen code<\/span> and am\u00a0<\/span>familiar with it enough to recognize and do basic things, like HTML. But I was in no way familiar with programming code on a vast database such as Butler’s. The task was to go into the BUPD database and creating a new type of parking permit. While this may sound easy it was a little bit more complex than originally thought. But, I survived and learned a little something, copy and paste is your friend.<\/strong> As Patti said, <\/em><\/p>\n

“If the codes already there, just copy and paste. Then customize it for your needs. No need to make it hard on yourself.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Good word of advice.<\/p>\n

After finishing the code in under an hour,\u00a0great time\u00a0I might add, we were scheduled for a meeting with the director of Human Resources. The meeting pertained to issues she was having switching to a new database. During the meeting the magic light bulb went off in my head,<\/p>\n

“This is a Step of the ADDIE model, the development phase.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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We were debugging issues and preparing a way to train the other employees on the new system, AKA implementation. <\/em><\/p>\n

“I’m a genius!”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Friday was supposed to be the testing day to make sure our coding actually worked before releasing it to the public. Sadly, my bus did not arrive that day so, I didn’t have the opportunity to participate. Next time Patti…next time.<\/p>\n

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