I've recently been asked to attend meetings of the College Building Committee / Master Planning Committee. The idea is that the current building projects we're working toward need some guidance from I.T. That's great, I couldn't be happier, as there have been a number of things that haven't exactly been ideal in previous construction projects (the comms racks that were too small for the servers, the expensive A/V systems that noone can use to name two examples). So now hopefully we'll have less problems in our new buildings, or at least avoid repeating the same mistakes.
So anyway, what does this have to do with this blog? Well my first one of these meetings took us off on a bit of a tangent. We got very heavily into the future of I.T. at the College and how that affects new teaching spaces. Take for example the four computer labs we currently maintain. Should they be allowed for in a new construction project? I couldn't imagine that would be a good idea, the use of desktops is going to receed in the coming years and these spaces with them. But it's not simply good enough just to leave them out or remove the labs, you need a coherent plan for the future. That's the road this meeting started to go down.
The meeting ended up with the Principal suggesting that the conversation is best continued at a Board level. So apparently that means I'm about to see what happens at Board Meetings. I hope I can remember the secret handshake! ;)
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