The Children's Storefront:
Pictures of the 13 Rooms done for Storefront on March 26-27, 2008

(actually 14 counting the Art Room)

this page last updated: 3/22/09

Megathanks to Rob Sugarman and Bill Luther from www.tequipment.com for their generous donation and quality professional work on 3/26/08 and 3/27/08 to The Children's Storefront!

the sessions will be 30 minutes long and will be customized to your level of skill and will focus on specific smartboard curriculum usage for you ... Joe Dixon and I will be with you for the 30 minute training session which will be a regular monthly relationship ... send me an e-mail with a first choice and second choice time slot using these 9 choices for tomorrow Thursday 8/28 ... Steve

Smartboard Mentoring Program Day #1

Participants? Will, Danielle, Penny, Charles, Amanda, Jacquelyn, Tracy, Joanna, Katie, Jennifer 
From  "Joe Dixon"  on August 28, 2008

Hello Steve, I really enjoyed the day. 
The staff at the schools seems wonderful and I really enjoyed being a part of lunch. I loved the energy!
Here are the sites we discussed today:


I hope this helps . . . thank you again for the opportunity and tell everyone that I enjoyed working w/ them today.
Joe Dixon
Director, Professional Development and Training Services

TIPS

click here for a one page "tips and tricks" document (sent to pioneers in Oct 2008)
How to fix the problem with handwriting recognition? Answer: go to SYSTEM PREFERENCES, then go to INK, then change it so that it looks like this with handwriting on but with "allow me to ink in any application" to be off as you see here
How to choose the best resolution for our projectors and possibly diminish flickering? Answer: click here

  1. Building 61 ... floor 2 (computer Lab) ... diagonal SB680

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  2. Building 61 ... floor 3 (art room) ... "Rob Sugarman" on March 10, 2008 at 2:27 PM wrote: To clarify my thoughts about the Art room, I think we should permanently mount the existing 50" plasma display, hook up a VGA splitter so both the flat panel and the computer monitor can be used together or independent without unplugging either and supply two AirLiner Wireless Slates to be the SMART Boards in the classroom that the teacher and a student or two students can use to interact with the image on the flat panel display.

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  3. Building 61 ... floor 1 (kindergarten)

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  4. Building 61 ... basement (grade two)

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  5. Building 70 basement... music room on same level as common room

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  6. Building 70 ... floor 1 (grade one)

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  7. Building 70 ... floor 2 (grade six on left) ... We finally reached consensus on this room, putting the smartboard on the EAST wall which is close to where Candace's current desk is located ... school will take the corkboard off that wall which Candace says NOT TO REMOUNT ... school can throw away or reuse elsewhere the blue file cabinet says Candace ... this revised plan allows the wonderful mural on the West wall to stay as is and avoids any need for an electrician

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  8. Building 70 ... floor 2 (grade five on right)

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  9. Building 70 ... floor 3 (grade eight on left)

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    After picture: Work is done but I have not taken picture yet (Steve)

  10. Building 70 ... floor 3 (grade seven on right) .

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    After picture: Work is done but I have not taken picture yet (Steve)

  11. Building 70 ... also floor 2 -- Reading Room South which gets used as a clasroom ... we also need to buy/acquire darkening blinds

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  12. Building 57 ... floor 2 (grade three ... Alexis) ...

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  13. Building 57 ... floor 3 (grade four)

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  14. Building 57 ... floor 3 (science with the other mounted projector) ... 4 of 4 ... 77" diagonal SB680 ... the plan is to remove the current projector and replace with our standard Epson ... SB to get LONG electric plug ... school to remove screen and white board ... no electrician needed ... junction box will be on the side wall and will be cabled to the PC for next two years with easy way to connect to laptop at front of room in two years when desired ... prep work done

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Notes re Bill and Steve

  1. The 77 diagonal smartboard is 65" by 49"
  2. The 64" diagonal smartboard is 54.75" by 41.5"
  3. our projectors are INFOCUS IN26 Model W260
  4. in case we need an emergency electrician, Victor has given me this info
    "We do business with New York City Electric (NYCE). I spoke to Dan Weissman (and I copied Mya, his assistant, on this e-mail); he is the owner and a good pal. He is a Mets fan, unfortunately. You and I will have no pull whatsoever with him. ... "Mya" or contact AT wirenyc.com ... I explained to him that we received a very generous donation and that we were hoping that they would be an extra set of eyes and ears for this project. Dan has agreed to respond to any emergencies and/or assist with any glitches in our plans. His cell is: 917-612-7480; I told him that you would follow up my conversation with him and touch base with him on more specifics regarding your needs from NYCE." From www.wirenyc.com ... New York City Electric is a father and son licensed and insured electrical contracting company with over 3 generations of expertise.  Our highly trained electricians and technicians work on a variety of residential, commercial and industrial projects in the tri-state area. High quality work and customer service is our first priority ... 3118 Webster Avenue -- Bronx, NY 10467 ... Phone (718) 405-2747 -- Fax (212) 316-6748
    Repair tip

    "Bill Luther" on April 11, 2008 at 8:24 PM -0400 wrote: Sometimes the power supply to the speaker comes unplugged at the speaker. PLEASE CHECK TO SEE THAT THE SMALL APADTER WIRE IS FIRMLY PUSHED INTO THE BOTTOM OF THE SPEAKER WHICH HAS THE USB HUB BUILT INTO IT. Also confirm that the green light on the speaker in bright green , this will indicate the power is on. Do not be fooled by the light green glow that appears when the usb wire is attached to the speaker , this will produce a lighter glowing of this same LED.  If you still have a problem , let me know and I will send someone to take care of it.    

Thanks!

March 2008: gigathanks to Rob Sugarman and Bill Luther from tequipment from Farmingdale NY for one of the most shocking acts of generosity we have ever seen on 129th street. Coming out on Friday 3/7 to do a routine walk-through and to choose 2 or 3 rooms for a mounted projector and smartboard, the two of them forced me (Steve Bergen) to sit down after 33 minutes so they could share the "facts of life" with me. Unwilling and reluctant I sat down and was shocked to hear that they wanted to put mounted smartboards and mounted projectors into each of our 15 classrooms at no charge, along with training our entire faculty. Speechless, stunned and shocked, it has taken me days to recover and understand the magnitude of this generous gift and the enormity of how it is going to impact our school. Cilck on the picture above to see their picture with several Storefront students in the computer lab.

Scope and Sequence for JV Smartboard Usage