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EDITOR'S NOTE: Ask Elsie is a column where Chief Financial Officer Elsie Schiro tackles employee queries, or in areas outside her purview, asks other District leaders to answer them.
Dear Elsie,
Technology is moving fast and heavy and now FWISD is staying up on the latest trends. It appears the District is migrating to Windows 10 platform. Has there been any training on this? If not, why not? I’ve been with the District for 20 years, and STILL I think it’s unfair to migrate a new operating system to our computers without training us how to use it.
Thanks,
Anonymous
Dear Anonymous,
I reached out to Becky Navarre, assistant superintendent of technology, and she had this to say on the matter: “During the summer of 2016, the District began upgrading laptops and desktops to Windows 10. As support for District employees, educational technology offered trainings during the summer. The training class was titled: Turn it Up to 10: Windows 10 and Google Chrome. The training was advertised through the campus technology liaisons and the District’s technology learning coaches via email and flyers.
As a follow up to the training, quick references guides were placed on the educational technology website: https://www.fwisd.org/Page/2697. Windows 10 was offered as training to central office departments as well.
Educational technology offers campus-based trainings and works with school administrators to offer training that is personalized to the needs of the school. We encourage all teachers to communicate training needs to their school administrator, first, to impact the entire school. Training requests can be made directly to technology learning coaches or educational technology at 817-814-3100.”
Thank you for your question.
Elsie
Dear Elsie,
Parking at the Administration building is difficult. How many parking spots at Admin does the District own, both garage and service? And, how many people work in the Admin building full time?
Anonymous
Dear Anonymous,
Thank you for your question. I reached out to safety and security regarding this matter.
There are 433 parking spaces available to be assigned to employees in the garage and surrounding properties at 100 N. University Drive. There are approximately 430 full-time employees. Many of these employees are deployed to campuses and various other District facilities throughout the day.
Total, there are 542 spaces at 100 N. University Drive, which include visitor and handicapped parking.
Thanks again for your question.
Elsie
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