There is a special guy I know who is spending his last day as a K12 school
network administrator.  A guy who I met on a Vermont School IT Listserv a
 long time ago,  before it was housed by UVM - and was run from a BBS that
he set up to be run WITH students!   I'm thinking that we should ask him to
call one last PIZZA meeting sometimes soon! What do you think?



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I remember being jealous of CVU having one of the first SCHOOl IT
 positions ever, when most of us were teachers setting up and maintaining
computers in our classrooms.

But Craig was always willing to answer my questions. I'd bump into him at
conferences and pick his brain about things like "why my webpages were
displaying outside of schools with an relative link, but I needed an
absolute link to make them appear inhouse"

I'll never forget the day of the Cyber Security Conference where he pulled
in next to my car on his motor cycle and greeted me and made me feel
welcomed even though I was 'just a teacher'  wondering if she belonged
there.

He always made everyone feel welcomed to grow their skills  and worked so
hard not only to provide ACCESS to everyone, but to empower them with new
skills.
These very characteristics earned him the Frank Watson Award in 2011
http://lucie.typepad.com/blog/2010/11/craig-lyndes-honored-for-his-committment-to-educational-technology-access.html


Little did I know that years later we would find ourselves single at the
same time and he would start courting me ;-)
Which turned out very well for me.
Even lead to a fun workshop that we co-presented at VErmontFest one year
called The Marriage Between EdTech and IT

I know he's probably busy today  passing on the keys and passwords to the
systems he has set up at St. Albans City School, but I couldn't let today
pass without some type of acknowledgement that this is a big day for CRAIG
LYNDES!






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