Ways To Use A Digital Camera

I am not going to call it a “series” yet, but I have the first post.  I have a new point-and-shoot that I plan to have with me all the time.  I was having lunch with Buzz, and he was diagramming some things he was trying to do on his home network.

We were at Panera.  Buzz drew this diagram on the back of a piece of paper he had.  I wanted to take the paper, but he needed it because of the contents on the other side.  Ten seconds later I had a perfect copy in the memory of my camera.  For all intents and purposes, my digital camera is a photo copier.

Digital camera aside, I wanted this picture for a different reason.  Buzz is a retired public school superintendent.  I think he retired ten or fifteen years ago.  If you have a problem reading between those lines, let me make it very simple.  Most of the people his age from his profession don’t know the difference between a patch cord and a patch of strawberries.

But Buzz is different.  He has taken upon himself the pursuit of greater technical understanding.  Take a look at this drawing.  He wants to configure a second access point on his home network.  He already has DSL connected to a router.  The second access point requires an Internet connection for configuration.  He did not want to interrupt his network connectivity to add the second router.  He drew this picture and asked me if everything would work if he set it up this way.

I applaud his effort to stay on top of all things technical!  We need more school administrators willing to learn the basic principals of the technology surrounding them in school.