Update

OK, we are moving forward on using Microsoft Live Meeting for training. The meetings are still going well. We have to change the computer placements in the stations in order for everyone at the station to be able to attend. We are currently set up in the offices at the stations. However we can not ask to have everyone pack into the small office to view the training. We also do not have any place for them to sit in the offices. So we are moving to the living areas. We are placing new computers, network drops and additional web cams near the big screens at the stations. We are running the computers to the big screens and setting the web cams on top of the TV's to face the students. We are hoping to have all of these station classroom set up by Sept 1, 2009.

Once the stations are all set up I am going to begin the process of implementing the "Best Practices" solution I have been researching. Then we are going to move all (lecture based) trainings and meetings to the Video Teleconferencing system. We can have 1250 different computers attend. So once we get St. Charles City system perfected we can expand it.

We have also started doing training officers meetings on the system. The first one was a success. More to follow...

All classes are now done for the degree. Now I just have to write the disertation.

Robb