I'm a dork...

As soon as I typed that, Jeremy started rambling on about some car he's driving in a video game. I feel like less of a dork now...

ANYWAYS-- I have this grand plan for work that I'm going to share with you all so that you will be massively impressed with my intellectual prowess so that I can geek out a little bit and cross my fingers that all this works...

Basically, my office is always covered in paper. If you're friends with me on Facebook, I'm sure you've seen the amount of sticky notes it takes to do summer staffing and that's not even a drop in the bucket. Every week, each school requires its own van list, its own "I swear I didn't leave any kids on the van" signoff sheet, and each van has to have the forms giving us permission to transport children and all of their emergency contact information. During the summer, each field trip has to have the sign off list/van list for each van/bus, each group has to have a list of children they're supposed to have, we have to carry all the permission slips for the field trip, all the emergency contact info, and the permission slips to transport the children... so, you can see how this is piling up in my tiny little office!

We print them off, hand them out, get them back and then scan in pages with signatures to be saved on our remote desktop for access. We have to keep five years of these things around. I feel like paper is getting wasted on an almost daily basis! What the what?!

The idea with the Kindle is that we can create Adobe forms for each of these things, load them on to the tablet, and the counselors will have all the forms they could ever need in case of emergency. At the end of the week, drivers can just e-mail their forms back to me without fuss or muss!

So, Kindle #1 will go towards that testing ground this week. It won't be here in time to go to Zoo Atlanta with us, but I'm going to play around with it and with the Adobe applications to see what we need to do with our forms and how to make them. We'll take it with us to Six Flags and go from there... ultimately, I'll have five Kindles (one for each van) and a tablet with internet for me so that if we're running late I can update parents on the mailing list (accessible from the tablet, but not from my phone) and post it on our FB and Twitter as well. I'll also have all the emergency forms with me since if something happens, I ride with the child to the hospital (worst experience EVER) so I'll have that info with me.

If you're still around, you get major props from me because this is probably the most boring post ever! If you have any experience with these things, let me know-- I've never used a Kindle or a Samsung tablet, so any help I can get is appreciated!

(I'm betting at this point only Swiggett and my Aunt Linda are still reading-- if you're not one of those two, you get a prize. Maybe LindsAy... maybe.)