Re: GEN: Cleaning in the media center

[David Lininger <tss003@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>]

At 08:10 PM 6/7/01 -0400, Carol Savage wrote:
>I'm curious to know how many of you clean the equipment at the end of the
>year or how many clean dirty (outside, not inside) books.  Out of 40
>teachers who returned overheads and CD/tape players only two attempted to
>clean the equipment or cart -- only one did it correctly.  Is this a sign
>of my (old) age?

When equipment is returned (anytime) I give it a quick check to make sure
it is ready to go out. Before I send stuff out in the fall I give it a
thorough cleaning/servicing. For long-term checkouts, that includes a spare
bulb. Overheads that are just going out for a day often don't have a spare
with them, unless there is a place inside the machine for it. All of my
newer machines have such provisions, which is why I send them out first. I
think I'll have only one machine left this year that doesn't have a place
for a spare bulb inside it.

I don't dust equipment when it comes back in the spring, because it will
need it again when it goes out in the fall.



David Lininger (kb0zke), LMS
Hickory County R-1 Schools
Rt 1, Box 838
Urbana, MO 65767
(417) 993-4226
mailto: tss003@mail.connect.more.net

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