Most screens cannot be cleaned as they have special coatings on them. But
equipment can and should be cleaned regularly. I use regular soft clothes to
dust all equipment. I use glass cleaner sprayed on a paper towel to clean
glass surfaces - Do NOT use anything other than plain water on the fresnel
lense of an overhead. If needed, use a damp cloth with mild detergent to
clean the outside of equipment - rinse and dry well. I use canned air to
blow out all equipment boxes, computers, etc. I use a cotton swab dipped in
alcohol to clean tape heads. I send out my VCRs to be cleaned and checked.
I do this every spring and then cover all with large plastic bags. This way
they are clean when I need to check them out to teachers. This is all part
of maintaining my equipment. You can train volunteers or older students to
help with this if you have a lot. This also helps me to keep a handle on
the need for newer equipment. Oh, one other thing I do is to place an extra
bulb in its package) inside overheads - that way if a bulb blows during a
presentation, the teacher doesn't have to wait until a student comes back
with a new one.
Toni Koontz
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Media Specialist
St. Charles Preparatory
www.cdeducation.org/schools/sc
Columbus Ohio
Carpe Diem
-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU]On Behalf Of Kim Monaco
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:11 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: TAR: a/v cleaners
Hello,
Just a quick, possibly idiotic, question- what do you use to clean a/v
screens, tape players, etc? I see fancy things in catalogs ($$$), yet I was
told that things such as Swiffers work just fine. Things get so dusty- and I
am tempted to use them! Cheap at Costco!
I am an elem librarian (year 2) who has the a/v as well (plus my
computers) - and things that come back for summer storage were so dusty -
heck, they were dusty when I handed them out too last September-
not my job to clean, per se- previous librarian had the impression that dust
was a good thing.... that's what the aides said when I asked them to dust
bookshelves as needed.
Ergh!
Suggestions?
TIA,
Kim
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Kim Monaco
School Library Media Specialist
Bellerose Avenue Elementary School
253 Bellerose Ave.
East Northport, NY 11731
http://www.northport.k12.ny.us
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