Orientation week

We have 500 students in the school and 4 teams. Three of the teams are on a daily 6 period schedule. One team is on a 2 day block schedule. Confusing and frustrating to schedule things in the media center when I try to give all students the same attention! This year orientation took 5 days to complete all students in 19 classes. Thankfully this year was the one I decided to not deliver it all in person, but via Photostory. Unfortunately due to some poor planning on my part (I have learned the hard way to check and recheck and check again) and technology issues it did not go so stress free. Photostory got deleted off the server over the summer and was not going to be put back soon (the average time for any and all work orders from tech support have run 4-6 weeks this year) so I ended up creating the tour with MovieMaker. But when that went to get finalized I discovered my computer had been moved over the summer and there was no dvd burner, not even a dvd player (ah ha, that movie I tried to play most likely WAS functional) at my desktop. It took a very long time to figure out how to get the video out to the library projector. Working with technology and intranets and school internet security can be a huge ordeal.