(165,28,'2007-03-02 14:48:27','2007-03-02 20:48:27','Melissa Weihmayer\n3-02-2007\nThursday, Friday, 6 hours total\nMurray Language Academy\nLab help\n\nThis week I broke up my work into four hours on Thursday and two on Friday. My main tasks included A) putting together a plan for possible poetry projects for fourth grade teachers, B) beginning the clean up of the old language-computer lab, and C) helping out with rambunctious fourth graders in their lab periods. The poetry project was actually really interesting to do, as I found some good sites that could be easily incorporated into the curriculum. I am still unfamiliar with age-appropriateness for websites, and presume that that requires a bit more experience to get a feel for. We\'ll have to see how the projects go in later weeks. It is particularly difficult discerning between sites that are simply to take up lab time (do easy math games really help kids learn computer skills?) and sites which teach the kids something, or help them retain any of the information they read. The old language lab clean-up is a really big project, but an interesting one as I am really seeing the shift from old technologies to new ones first hand (the kid pix programs stored in there makes me so nostalgic for my childhood days!). A bit of an exhausting week, especially working with the kids, but all around gratifying.','Murray Week 3','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-3','','','2007-03-02 14:48:27','2007-03-02 20:48:27','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/02/murray-week-3/',0,'post','',0),(166,7,'2007-03-02 15:26:29','2007-03-02 21:26:29','<strong>Your Name:Xavier Hernandez</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/03/02\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M T W F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 9.5</strong>\n\n<strong>The School:Murray</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nI was supposed to work last Friday but something came up last minute.  I had already added the time to the time sheet I turned in last week so I made up the hours on Monday.  Joe wasn\'t here on Monday or Tuesday so he left me a list of things to do.  There was a computer in room 208 which was missing a graphics card driver.  2 days and 10 drivers later, I still could not get the card working. I dusted the computers in rooms 107 and 108 using a can of compressed air, loaded the new Audacity and Google  Sketchup on the computers in 216, took everything out of 3 metal cabinets in room 204 and rearranged it in the cabinets in the wall, and checked 2 projectors and 2 laptops that were in 204. \n\nThe microphones that were in room 204 are now locked away in a cabinet in 216.  The two laptops in 204 are both in working condition.  One is running on Windows 98 while the other is running on XP.  We might put them in room 204 for students to use since we need more working computers in the \"new\" language lab.  The 2 projectors are working fine except one is missing the vga cable that plugs into the back of the projector and the pc.  The computer in 108 that I could not get working was replaced by a computer from room 204. I installed some software the teacher needed and made sure it all ran well. I put the computer from 108 in 204.  After messing with the computer, I was able to find a suitable driver for the graphics card.  I completely forgot to think of just searching in the computer for the driver.  It wasn\'t the one I was looking for but it was suitable enough to get it working to at least 24 bit. \n\nI\'m having a problem with installing the audio driver on Acer 5100\'s.  I have about 3 of them that need the audio driver but when I install the driver that is supposedly for it, I get a blue stop error aka \"blue screen of death\".  It happens on all of the Acers.  The thing I don\'t get though is why it installs without a problem in the first place. You\'d think if the driver weren\'t compatible it would not install.  I really would like to get the sound working on these computers since it is crucial for room 204\'s language lab to be a success.  If any of you can think of something let me know.  I\'ve tried installing all the \"compatible\" drivers I could find but I keep getting the same problem.  The driver is \"Realtek AC\'97 audio driver\".  Let me know if you can come up with something.\n\nThanks,\n\nXavier','9th week @ Murray','','publish','open','closed','','9th-week-murray','','','2007-03-02 15:26:29','2007-03-02 21:26:29','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/02/9th-week-murray/',0,'post','',1),(167,24,'2007-03-02 17:17:49','2007-03-02 23:17:49','Name: Ariel Hafftka\n\nToday’s Date: Mar 2, 2007\n\nDay(s) worked or described: Feb 27 and Mar 2\n\nTotal hours for week: 4.5\n\nThe School: Entrepreneurship\n\nKind of Work: Tech General\n\n Dell techician Sean came and fixed five computers today, which now are in the left corner of room 209.  Dell will return Tuesday to fix computer 1LYDP41 which needs a mother board.  Computer C6FT881 needs to be imaged.','(Ariel at ENTR)','','publish','open','closed','','167','','','2007-03-02 17:17:49','2007-03-02 23:17:49','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/02/167/',0,'post','',0),(168,29,'2007-03-02 17:58:35','2007-03-02 23:58:35','Ariel Marcus\n3-2-2007\nTuesday, 3 hours total\nSchool of Leadership\nGeneral Tech\n\nThis week was really good. I fixed a paper jam in 319. Also, the computers are starting to be sifted through in 314. I put the particularly bad ones in the far left corner of that room. As well, the computers that need only a little maintence I put in the close right corner. I also figured out how to fix the control panel problem we had been having, since it had been disabled on many of the computers. Once, I have some fully remediated computers I can hopefully put them in that lab room or find teachers who could use them.','School of Leadership Week 3','','publish','open','closed','','school-of-leadership-week-3','','','2007-03-02 17:58:35','2007-03-02 23:58:35','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/02/school-of-leadership-week-3/',0,'post','',0),(169,15,'2007-03-02 18:39:25','2007-03-03 00:39:25','<strong>Your Name:</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/03/02\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong>Thursday2007/03/01\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 3\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Kenwood Academy\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nFirst,  I set up a LCD projector in the Health department, which simply involved hooking it up to the instructor\'s computer and setting up his computer\'s visual output. After that, I worked on trying to figure out if LanStar would work as a teaching tool in a certain classroom, rather than having to buy another projector. This involved downloading and installing a patch for LanStar on Mrs. Constantine\'s computer, then testing various functions to see how they worked. Mrs. Constantine worked with me, and most of the functions worked as expected.  A couple of problem came up, but we managed to figure out most of them. However, the Demo function of LanStar didn\'t work how Mrs. Constantine wanted it to, nor could we get the Group function to work at all. When we tried to group different passive computers together, we got an error message, which claimed that the computers weren\'t on the same subnet; however, upon running ipconfig we found that they were, in fact, on the same subnet. We were unable to resolve this problem.','LanStar etc. at Kenwood','','publish','open','closed','','lanstar-etc-at-kenwood','','','2007-03-02 18:39:25','2007-03-03 00:39:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/02/lanstar-etc-at-kenwood/',0,'post','',2),(170,25,'2007-03-02 22:59:00','2007-03-03 04:59:00','Name: Allison\nToday’s Date: 3/2/07\nDays worked or described: Tu, Th, FR\nTotal Hours worked for week: 6\nKind of work: classroom assistance, lab assesment, upgrading....\nMain Report or Narrative:\nI began working on getting the photography Mac lab in shape. On Tuesday I checked the lab to see if the ethernet ports were working and indeed, contrary to what I was told, every ethernet port worked. So, there is really no good reason why the computers don\'t have internet access. The computers have been offline and haven\'t had any updates in ages, so on Thursday I began the process of upgrading, installing security updates, etc. This will take some more visits to complete. On Friday I went back to Mr. Lenon and just did some general maitenance.','Kenwood and the Mac Lab, Part II','','publish','open','closed','','kenwood-and-the-mac-lab-take-ii','','','2007-03-02 22:59:00','2007-03-03 04:59:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/02/kenwood-and-the-mac-lab-take-ii/',0,'post','',1),(171,26,'2007-03-03 19:51:46','2007-03-04 01:51:46','Name: Dawei\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/03\nDays Worked: Tu, Th, Sa\nTotal Hours: 4\nSchool: Ray\nKind of Work: website project\n\nI met with Ms. Sheridan on Tuesday, and we went through the <a href=\"http://www.dawei.grinhost.net/ray/\">demo website</a> together. We spend most of the time talking about the design. She then gave me some additional suggestions, one being that the website has too little school color (green). Ms. Sheridan is very interested in getting started on the content. But since the template isn\'t officially finished (still waiting for more sub categories under Student), if we start filling in the content, we\'ll have to later copy and paste them back into the correct template. I thought it wouldn\'t be too much work considering the fact that we don\'t have many pages to deal with, I copied the demo website index and duplicated them for Ms. Sheridan, so she can take them home and work with them anytime. We originally scheduled for a meeting on Thursday, but the entrance of the school was locked for some reason when I arrived. Our next official meeting is on Friday the 9th, but I\'m hoping that we can get together beforehand and get some work done, because I won\'t be able to do anything after Friday\'s meeting due to my finals.','Ray Website Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','ray-website-week-6','','','2007-03-03 19:51:46','2007-03-04 01:51:46','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/03/ray-website-week-6/',0,'post','',1),(172,8,'2007-03-04 11:51:03','2007-03-04 17:51:03','Your Name: Erin\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/04\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W\n\nTotal hours for week: 5\n\nThe School: Till\n\nKind of Work: Project Execution, Tech General\n\nMain Report or Narrative: On Monday I met with Mrs. Sudduth to see if she needed any work done in the lab, but she had no particular project in mind. It\'s nice to see that an extra table has been added to alleviate the overcrowding-- that\'s just the sort of geometry that needed to happen. I helped Ms. Shoppman with some printer trouble (a persistent paper jam, nothing too exciting). I spent some time cleaning up my edit of the WordPress theme <i>Blix</i>, (my main project was making posts alternate colors because some of the students were adding comments on the wrong posts because they couldn\'t tell where one ended and the next began, but also a lot of other cleanup) so I suppose I\'ll package that up as an official CUIP edited theme when I\'ve got a chance? \nOn Wednesday I tried to sort out the files that Mrs. Jacobson\'s afterschool students had left in the Book Previews folder. I didn\'t get to unravel everything, but I suspect that they don\'t quite grasp the filename concept and have been overwriting their data by making two different audio files and giving them the same name. The quality of recordings also seems to have decreased a bit since the mechanics of the project have been put entirely in students\' hands-- whether this is because of a technical problem, a lack of motivation from an authority figure, or just that I haven\'t found the right files yet is something that I\'ll have to investigate. The book club blog, though, seems to be working at just the right level for students-- they\'re really getting the hang of doing their responses.\n\nIn my time away from Till, I\'ve been weeding through the hefty collection of WP themes we\'ve amassed, reviewing them for project compatibility, cross-browser functionality, and whether they use ugly colors. Expect a long report back sometime soon.','Ninth week at Till','','publish','open','closed','','ninth-week-at-till','','','2007-03-04 11:51:03','2007-03-04 17:51:03','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/05/ninth-week-at-till/',0,'post','',1),(173,31,'2007-03-06 08:51:54','2007-03-06 14:51:54','Your Name:Kathy Wagner\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/05\n\n[Week or date reporting on, if not most recent week: 2007/02/26-2007/03/01]\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M Th\n\nTotal hours for week:6\n\nThe School:Fermi\n\nKind of Work: (Tech general, Tech for Project, Project Prep, Project Culmination, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision, etc.)\nTech general, Teacher check-ins\n\nMain Report or Narrative: In the past week, I thinned the \"power cord jungle\" a bit and continued to standardize the lab systems.  I addressed a few of the issues noted by the current users of the computer lab, including installing Flash on the lab computers and ensuring internet functionality.  I did a quick inventory of the computers in second floor classrooms; many of the doors were locked, so this week I intend on performing a more thorough check.  I  did a quick system reboot for Ms. Meyer (rm 116) in response to a help-request and intend to return there this week to untangle a few printer problems she mentioned.   Ms. Stokley (rm. 205) needs help in set-up of assistive tech; I left her a note with my contact info as her prep period was late in the day.  I will check back with her this week.\n\nMy regular schedule at this school has changed, to become: I\'m not in Monday of this week, as CPS is out.','Treasure hunts','','publish','open','closed','','treasure-hunts','','','2007-03-06 08:51:54','2007-03-06 14:51:54','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/06/treasure-hunts/',0,'post','',0),(174,2,'2007-03-09 11:47:45','2007-03-09 17:47:45','\n<p class=\"main\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h1>Staff Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/03/03</h1>\n<strong>[UofC Week 10 of Winter quarter]</strong>\n\nMonday 03/05 was a CPS holiday\nWednesday 03/07 was a CPS half day for P.D.\n<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Fiske Tues 4:00, weds. 3:00, total 7:00</li>\n	<li>Murray Fri email and online work, 45 min</li>\n	<li>Ray Weds. 20 min meeting, Thurs 30 min email, Fri meeting and onsite work 2:45, total 3:35</li>\n	<li>Till Weds. 15 min email, 15 min onsite</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn Thurs 2:30</li>\n	<li>Woodson Tues, Weds inconclusive drop-ins.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Find out (casually) what the OTS stand is on personal laptops brought into the school and put on the network. Do they have to be given full remediation treatment? Is it any different in the case of wireless?\n<ul>\n	<li>Not done</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Exercise the option to request quasi-INSTR delegation at a target school, probably Fermi.\n<ul>\n	<li>Not done</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>At ENTR, in Alex Rhodan\'s room, see if the computer we were using as fileserver during the summer is <em>still</em> set up as a server.  If so, copy the XP ghost images to our portable HDD, and use to reimage that computer as student station with XP.\n<ul>\n	<li>not done</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Check CWD server USB backup drive\n<ul>\n	<li>Yes, it\'s okay.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Ray website redesign: Clarify Template issues with Dawei, in advance of Friday meeting with Gabe.\n<ul>\n	<li>Done in person when we both dropped in at her classroom after school Wednesday (early dismissal).</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>DNS settings update for office computers. Check with Julia.\n<ul>\n	<li>not done</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>WP standalones, upgrade to 2.1. Previous week: “Deferred again. Now get 2.1.1″ .Last week: WP declared 2.1.1 “dangerous”. Now get 2.1.2.\n<ul>\n	<li>Not done</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Carried forward: Techwiki entries for\n<ul>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part I, how to get from SI to file: this entry exsts, add note about not trusting floppies, use thumbdrive or direct upload to server</li>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part II, what to do with the file — stub only in place, take from email sent to Bryan</li>\n	<li>Power-on passwords and Setup Admin Passwords: take from email with Jimmy and Linda Sudduth</li>\n	<li>Added to this to-do list: the CPSWIRELESS notes</li>\n	<li><strong>Still carried forward</strong></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups in CUIP lab, using WD NetCenter Drive\n<ul>\n	<li>Brought in my own copy of the CD (the office copy is misplaced)</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Did not install. Try again next week.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS or other CMS. Last week: –Still deferred.</li>\n	<li>Waiting for spring break or summer: look into \"Google Apps for Domains\" [as it is no longer called]</li>\n</ul>\n===============================\n<h2>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Woodson -- get back in touch with Mr Spearman, do the server upgrade</li>\n	<li>Murray -- Tuesday morning, see Joe Mills about user profiles and Lyceum options</li>\n	<li>Till -- RC installation automation (look at Fiske GPO logonscript for a regedit example)</li>\n	<li>WIT server\n<ul>\n	<li>Continue space reclamation -- move web logs</li>\n	<li>Look into different backup options -- the onboard copying is what uses up space so quickly</li>\n	<li>Start on Apache 2 / PHP 5 installation</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Lively brief discussion on compteach@lists.cuip.net about lab monitoring / management software packages (Hi-Class, LANStar, LANSchool).</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>eCUIP</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>We made a lot of progress in squaring away storeroom.  The remaining detritus makes it look like we\'re still facing major disorder, but that\'s misleading; only odds-n-ends are still in the office awaiting disposition.</li>\n	<li>Mostly done setting up spare NSIT Dell with XP as loaner for Christie.  Video and network drivers now okay, sound needs something, and software will be left for her to pick out / install.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Servers</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>    Space problem in /var on WIT server.  Started some reclamation.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Fiske</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday  3/06  for 4:00.</li>\n	<li>Checked  at library; Ms.  Richards was absent today but she was logged in; Follett ran fine.   I suspiciously thought  \"Well, somebody rebooted it [fiske-srv01] earlier\"  but the logs didn\'t seem to say so, and  Mr. Miller said not.  So maybe it is behaving better.</li>\n	<li> I installed a slew (that\'s 62) of Windows Updates for srv01, and rebooted.  It still has a red mark on the Compliance Scanner page because Service Pack 1 has not been installed.  Update was skipping that because of shortage of space on C: drive.  I moved some things out of C: but there still wasn\'t enough space.  Did a manula download of SP1 installer (to D: drive) in case it\'s only the storage space for that which creates the problem.  [Writing this during download.]</li>\n	<li>On the compliance page I noted some misnamed workstations, furthermore sharing a Description field.  I think these were from Ghosting and didn\'t get the rename wizard treatment.  Erik and I discussed this, will also show Peter.  If the wizard is not working, there is the trick of changing the letter at the end of the Unisys-asset-tag-based name.</li>\n	<li>There is one computer, in 202, where DF has been installed as a standalone.  We tried some likely passwords but none worked.  Erik will get in touch with Gabe Skerrit about the password and about getting a console installed.</li>\n	<li>Last thing Tuesday (as Progressive Learning was kicking me out!) I deleted too much in trying to free up C: space on srv01 to enable installing Service Pack, left it in a medium-bad state: shares are okay so the functionality it is used for (mostly Follett) is satisfactory, but nobody logging in to the console or via Remote Desktop actually gets a desktop!  So management of the server would be problematic.</li>\n	<li>Wednesday, with Erik, for 3:00.</li>\n	<li>We met with Mr. Miller to discuss his request to turn off the individual student logins.  Interestingly, his objection was not one that we had anticipated.  He has the students log off by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and if they proceed hurriedly they tend to lock the computer instead.  We suggested changing the logoff procedure to use the Start button ... which still has an undesirable default action (shut down, or on some, reboot), but recoverable with less teacher attention than Lock.  Also he was swayed by the point that if all students use the same login, their files will be vulnerable to copying or defacing by troublemakers.</li>\n	<li>I was able to fix the damage I had done the day before to srv01, by using the Windows Server 2003 OS Installer CD, choosing the Repair options.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Mollison</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li> Thursday, online -- looked up admin email address in db of Ms Bradley\'s blog, so that Russ can help her with forgotten password routine.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Murray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Trying to get Podpress working in Lyceum.  As a per-blog plugin, it says it activates but the expectedfeatures are not added.  As a system plugin it breaks the portal page and some admin controls!  Ay!  So I spent a while in the database repairing that damage.</li>\n	<li>Will make a separate copy of the Murrayblogs to experiment with safely.  Joe and I will probably try it out next Tuesday.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Ray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>  Weds. 3/7, brief meeting with Dawei and Gabe.  Mostly about how to  prep for Friday\'s work session. But also we clarified about the use of Dreamweaver templates and tools.</li>\n	<li>Thurs 3/8 email with Gabe and Erik, 20 min.</li>\n	<li>Fri 3/9, for 2:45, meeting  and work session on the website.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Shoesmith</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Fri., 40 minutes online work, setting up domain and vhost for shoesmithblogs.cuip.net</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Weds., email 20 min and onsite 20 min with Linda,  INSTR student account updates.  As her email said, there was something wrong with the SI file she obtained this morning.  But she had one a week old,  and she used that one successfully, with just minimal coaching to correct/augment her notes.</li>\n	<li>To do: sit in the Primary lab and experiment with how to install reading counts so it will work for different user logins.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Thursday for 2:30.  Dealt with the two infected computers Mischa identified in Ms Hamilton\'s room (110).  Tried some  simpler measures before (I mean instead of, for now) doing a full OS  re-install.  Removing the suspicious files from top level of C: drive may have done the trick.  Also downloaded from Lavasoft the still-free Ad-Aware SE Personal and ran that.  The IBM needed to be removed from and re-joined to INSTR.  Ms. Johnson will check them Friday or Monday and we\'ll see if  this has held, or else go for the more radical solution.</li>\n	<li>The Location-Based Printing setup for that room was already in place, but the description field for one of the  Compaqs needed adjusting.  At the end of the day all three computers were printing to the local HP (under Primary3680  login).</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodson</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday 03/06, weds 3/07, dropped in but didn\'t find Mr Spearman</li>\n</ul>\n<!-- 					<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" 			xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" 			xmlns:trackback=\"http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/\"> 		<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/guidelines-and-templates-for-posts/template-for-cuip-staff-weekly-report/\"     dc:identifier=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/guidelines-and-templates-for-posts/template-for-cuip-staff-weekly-report/\"     dc:title=\"Template for CUIP staff weekly report\"     trackback:ping=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/guidelines-and-templates-for-posts/template-for-cuip-staff-weekly-report/trackback/\"> </rdf:RDF>				-->','If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn','','publish','open','closed','','if-your-life-is-a-leaf-that-the-seasons-tear-off-and-condemn','','','2007-03-09 11:47:45','2007-03-09 17:47:45','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/09/if-your-life-is-a-leaf-that-the-seasons-tear-off-and-condemn/',0,'post','',0),(175,23,'2007-03-05 15:46:58','2007-03-05 21:46:58','Name: Yayan\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/05\nDays Worked: M W F\nTotal Hours: 5\nSchool: Shoesmith\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMonday was a normal day, I helped in a 1st grade class with their typing. Some of the kids had problems with Microsoft Word not working on their computers and I was generally able to fix most of the problems. Wednesday was the same; I helped a teacher load a picture into a Word document before the 1st grade class came in. On Friday, Mr. Rhyne was having some technical problems with the OneRoomSoftware the school uses for report cards, and I tried fixing it but it turned out that Microsoft Word on the computer was missing a template needed to open the text documents.','Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','shoesmith-6','','','2007-03-05 15:46:58','2007-03-05 21:46:58','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/05/shoesmith-6/',0,'post','',0),(176,24,'2007-03-08 04:07:14','2007-03-08 10:07:14','Name: Ariel Hafftka\n\nToday’s Date: Mar 8, 2007\n\nDay(s) worked or described: Mar 6\n\nTotal hours for week: 4.5\n\nThe School: Entrepreneurship\n\nKind of Work: Tech General\n\nThe following are two additional Dells that need repair:\n1. In Bill\'s room, Dell computer #HS0J651, type 270 (tower) needs a new power supply.\n2. In Room 209, Dell #D0ZLT51 type 280 (flat) does not turn on at all, possibly needs new power supply.\n\nAlso in 209 the computers underneath monitors 1 and 11 do not work.','Additional Dells that need repair','','publish','open','closed','','176','','','2007-03-08 04:07:14','2007-03-08 10:07:14','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/08/176/',0,'post','',1),(177,12,'2007-03-09 12:07:35','2007-03-09 18:07:35','Your Name:Chris Furuya\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/09\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 3\n\nThe School:Fuller\n\nKind of Work: Project execution, one-on-one tutoring\n\nMain Report or Narrative: I haven\'t heard from the little girl in question; she\'s coming to school, but not on the only day this week I was free to work (My finals are all 10th week, what the heck.)\n\nMy website, though, <a href=\"http://fullerblogs.cuip.net/burdette\" title=\"http://fullerblogs.cuip.net/burdette\">http://fullerblogs.cuip.net/burdette</a>, is getting quite a bit of attention! Previously, it was whoever finished their work in time, could come back and read about black history month, and Larrue, who works ahead, almost always posts, but today I was braver and sent half the class back- there\'s some copying, there\'s some to;ahgohaogj gibberish, and some story analysis and summary. I count it a success.\n\nAlso, Ms. Chabelle wants to piggyback off Ms. Burdette\'s blog; not quite needing a new one, but it\'s a possibility in the near future.','Etc, etc, etc.','','publish','open','closed','','etc-etc-etc','','','2007-03-09 12:07:35','2007-03-09 18:07:35','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/09/etc-etc-etc/',0,'post','',0),(178,10,'2007-03-09 15:55:38','2007-03-09 21:55:38','Bryan Duff\nRay\nWeek 10\nTech general: 8 hours\n\nI wasn\'t able to stop by and help out with the Spanish project this week.  There were a lot of minor tech issues to work with, but most of my efforts were devoted to a problem in Ms. Lancaster\'s room (210).  Most of it has already been discussed with Mitch, Erik, and Sanjaya via email.  Regardless:\n\nWindows wouldn\'t load on one of the Dell 280s.  It gave an error that it was missing a system file.  I did not restore the machine because she had several important files on the computer from the Earphonics and Lexia programs.  I removed the hard drive and made it a secondary device in another machine.  From there, I copied the files to the USB drive and went to ghost her machine, with the intention of putting the files (student test records) back after I was done.  Unfortunately, the ghost program would not read the mouse or keyboard no matter what combination of USB ports I used.  This was especially strange because I was able to use the keyboard and the mouse seemed function when I loaded the ghost CD (through the F12 setup).  \n\nThat\'s currently where things stand.  I\'m confident that once that once that hurdle is overcome its all down hill.  Regardless, it was another successful week at Ray!\n\nBy the way, in case you hadn\'t heard, a 6th grader from Ray won the city spelling bee.  ','10th Week','','publish','open','closed','','10th-week','','','2007-03-09 15:55:38','2007-03-09 21:55:38','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/09/10th-week/',0,'post','',0),(180,24,'2007-03-09 19:38:24','2007-03-10 01:38:24','Name: Ariel Hafftka\nThe School: Entrepreneurship\nToday\'s Date: Mar 9, 2007\nDay(s) worked or described: Mar 9\nTotal hours for week: 4.5\nKind of Work: Tech General\n\nMain report or narrative:\nToday I set up the Lexmark printer to work with all the computers in\nMs. Davis\' room 203 and fixed the internet connections there.  Bill Weeke\'s printer works now; apparently Erik\nor Steve fixed it before I arrived.  I will not be working again until\nFeb 26 or 27 because of finals and spring break.','Internet and printing are working in Ms. Davis\' room','','publish','open','closed','','internet-and-printing-are-working-in-ms-davis-room','','','2007-03-09 19:38:24','2007-03-10 01:38:24','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/09/internet-and-printing-are-working-in-ms-davis-room/',0,'post','',0),(181,26,'2007-03-09 21:19:27','2007-03-10 03:19:27','Name: Dawei\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/09\nDays Worked: F\nTotal Hours: 2.5\nSchool: Ray\nKind of Work: website project\n\nThere was only one meeting on Friday, where Ms. Sheridan, Mitch, and I all sat down together and worked side-by-side on the <a href=\"http://www.ray.cps.k12.il.us/NEW2007/index.htm\">website</a>. We mainly went through the Dreamweaver features that Ms. Sheridan has been using, and created a real Dreamweaver template based on the design I previously made. Now if we want to make chagnes on the design itself, Dreamweaver will save us plenty of time by taking care of the individual pages and synchronizing them with the template accordingly. In addition, I replaced the color boxes on the header with real photos of Ray provided by Ms. Sheridan, and also added a photo of the school building along its left. Now that the template and everything else are set up nicely, Ms. Sheridan can finally work on the content on her own.\n\nIn the future meetings, we will mainly be working on the materials for the content, and the speed will pick up much more quicker than before. It\'s looking great.','Ray Website Week 7','','publish','open','closed','','ray-website-week-7','','','2007-03-09 21:19:27','2007-03-10 03:19:27','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/09/ray-website-week-7/',0,'post','',1),(182,23,'2007-03-09 23:31:34','2007-03-10 05:31:34','Name: Yayan\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/09\nDays Worked: W\nTotal Hours: 1hr 50min\nSchool: Shoesmith\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nI only worked Wednesday this week, it was a half day. Mr. Rhyne managed to get the OneRoom software working so he could print out report cards. Otherwise there were just various teachers from time to time who I helped a little with general Word or printing problems with.','Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','shoesmith-7','','','2007-03-09 23:31:34','2007-03-10 05:31:34','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/09/shoesmith-7/',0,'post','',0),(183,25,'2007-03-10 08:39:43','2007-03-10 14:39:43','Name: Allison\nToday’s Date: 3/10/07\nDays worked or described:FR\nTotal Hours worked for week: 4 1/2\nKind of work: classroom assistance\nMain Report or Narrative:\nMy only work this week was on friday, working with the english classes and the laptop carts. Ms Constantine was out sick, which proved to be a problem. This was by far the worst experience with the carts I\'ve had yet. When I came in the morning, mr Narrains(sp?) and I couldn\'t find the carts. We finally got a hold of two, and only later learned that the carts for that class were stored in 121. So, we had different carts, one of which had cd drives and not floppy. Which would not have been a terribly big deal if Ms Constantine had been there, because I could\'ve gotten access to 307, but as it was, I couldn\'t get a hold of the drives. So, we had to live with some people not being able to save to a floppy, and finding flash drives for them to save stuff on, which proved a bit of a hassle. The other major problem was one of the carts (#3??). Somebody had obviously started moving it the cart while everything was plugged in, so all the plugs were bent and couldn\'t fit into the wall - the cart power cable, the printer and the dlink for the printer. I spent a good deal of the first period trying to bend the plugs back. I got the power for the cart and the power for the printer to work, but never was able to get the dlink up and running. Which brings me to the other problem - students wanted to print. Since I only had one printer running at a time, cuz of the broken dlink, and students with computers from two laptop carts ... well, yeah, very messy indeed. And there was also no paper in the printer. Lovely. It was a chaotic day with the carts. Somehow I got it so at least her lesson worked out and students got to do what they needed to do.','Kenwood, Week 10','','publish','open','closed','','kenwood-week-10','','','2007-03-10 08:39:43','2007-03-10 14:39:43','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/10/kenwood-week-10/',0,'post','',0),(184,2,'2007-03-20 07:13:53','2007-03-20 13:13:53','\n<p class=\"main\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h1> Staff Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/03/10 (Mitch)</h1>\n[UofC winter quarter exam week]\n\n[CPS testing]\n<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Entrepreneurship: Weds for 3:00 onsite; online to ENTR server 45 min;onsite Fri 40 min; total = 4:25</li>\n	<li>Fiske Fri 1:15</li>\n	<li>Murray: tues 3/13, 2:20 onsite</li>\n	<li>Shoesmith: Monday 3/12 30 min online</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn -- Sunday 3/11, 45 min online; Tues 3/13, 1:30 onsite, Weds. 3/14 onsite 1:20 = 3:35 total</li>\n	<li>Woodson: Tues 3/13, 1 hr</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>    Schedule a Tech Coordinators meeting!\n<ul>\n	<li>Held over</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Woodson — get back in touch with Mr Spearman, do the server upgrade\n<ul>\n	<li>Met and decided to confer with Dr. Arnall once again, before rushing into server upgrade</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Murray — Tuesday morning, see Joe Mills about user profiles and Lyceum  options\n<ul>\n	<li>We handled roaming profiles (turned them off).  Lyceum will wait for an opportunity to install the updates.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Till — RC installation automation (look at Fiske GPO logonscript for a  regedit example)\n<ul>\n	<li>Held over to next week</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>WIT server\n<ul>\n	<li>Continue space reclamation — move web logs</li>\n	<li>Look into different backup options — the onboard copying is what uses up  space so quickly\n<ul>\n	<li>Still working on this</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Start on Apache 2 / PHP 5 installation\n<ul>\n	<li>defer</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Find out (casually) what the OTS stand is on personal laptops brought into the school and put on the network. Do they have to be given full remediation treatment? Is it any different in the case of wireless? Last week: Not done\n<ul>\n	<li>Erik had a conversation with Sandip and Gabe about this.  (Also artof it is: when and HOW to get the OTSautoupdates done, for wireless laptops  --  do they need to be kept ON overnight on Maintenance Window dates?</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Exercise the option to request quasi-INSTR delegation at a target school,  probably Fermi.  Last week: Not done\n<ul>\n	<li>Explored in conversation with Sandip Vashi (at ENTR).  Approved in principle.</li>\n	<li>To do: request specifically in email.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>At ENTR, in Alex Rhodan’s room, see if the computer we were using as  fileserver during the summer is <em>still</em> set up as a server. If so, copy the XP ghost images to our portable HDD, and use to reimage that computer as student station with XP.\n<ul>\n	<li>New plan: use this as server  for the Library  to handle Athena.</li>\n	<li>This is indeed what was done!</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>DNS settings update for office computers. Check with Julia.\n<ul>\n	<li>DONE.</li>\n	<li>Now noticing -- Julia\'s does not have DST update :(.  Really we should upgrade the computer to W2K or XP.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>WP standalones, upgrade to 2.1. Previous week: “Deferred again. Now get 2.1.1″ .Last week: WP declared 2.1.1 “dangerous”. Now get 2.1.2. Last week: Not done\n<ul>\n	<li>Did this for WIT server (blogs.cuip.net)</li>\n	<li>Also did Podpress distribution on that server, but not general plugin or theme distribution.</li>\n	<li>Erin will do some Interim work on these topics; continuing to select/edit themes for our standard distribution, plus help figure out how to implement the distribution, and maybe run the upgrades for second server.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote></blockquote>\n</blockquote>\n<ul>\n	<li>Carried forward: Techwiki entries for\n<ul>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part I, how to get from SI to file: this entry exsts, add note about not trusting floppies, use thumbdrive or direct upload to server</li>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part II, what to do with the file — stub only  in place, take from email sent to Bryan</li>\n	<li>Power-on passwords and Setup Admin Passwords: take from email with Jimmy and  Linda Sudduth</li>\n	<li>Added to this to-do list: the CPSWIRELESS notes</li>\n	<li><strong>Still carried forward</strong></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups  in CUIP lab, using WD NetCenter Drive\n<ul>\n	<li>Brought in my own copy of the CD (the office copy is misplaced)</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Did not install. Try again next week.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS or other CMS. Last  week: –Still deferred.</li>\n	<li>Waiting for spring break or summer: look into “Google Apps for Domains” [as  it is no longer called]</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>    Schedule a Tech Coordinators meeting!\n<ul>\n	<li>Held over</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> eCUIP</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>On WIT server (CUIP main server) the space used by onboard copying backup was getting out of hand. Temporarily addressed by excluding some of the largest users.</li>\n	<li>DST correction:\n<ul>\n	<li>On www2 it was already correct</li>\n	<li>On WIT and CWD, replaced the compiled zoneinfo file (using the one from www2, which was compatible)</li>\n	<li>To-do Walrus</li>\n	<li>To-do Ray (probably already correct, it is same vintage as www2)</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>On WIT server blogs directory (a.k.a. http://blogs.cuip.net) cleaned up many of the stray practice or script-afoul directories (and associated tables).</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Weds 3/14 with Erik for 3:00.</li>\n	<li>We ran into Sandip Vashti,  Gabriel  Sterritt, and two other desktop team members, onsite to work on the Mac systems OTS would like to get going, aiming for comparable control to what they do with Windows now.\n<ul>\n	<li>Interesting conversation with Sandip!  Clarified some INSTR future questions!</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Moved the Dell-desktop-made-Server-2003 from Rhodan\'s room to Library Office.  Did some renaming, remediation, and so forth.</li>\n	<li>With Steve G. and Maryellen Conlon (librarian for Entr and Leadership combined library), installed Athena on the server, and full Athena client on her office desktop computer.  Imported the book data.</li>\n	<li>Subsequently, reconnected to the server by RDC while sitting at another school multitrasking; ran further remediation and Windows Update, including  SP2 for WS2K3.</li>\n	<li></li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fiske</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Friday 3/16, Check-in for followup on last week\'s  server activity.  Follett is running fine, both servers seem okay (though older one still short on space, cannot do Service Packs)</li>\n	<li>Chatted with Wilbert, to schedule  continuing server/INSTR P.D.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>See Entrepreneurship notes; the Library is common to both schools.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Murray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tues 3/13 for 2:20, met with Joe Mills about Roaming Profiles. After some frustration with trying to set permissions so he could inspect the students\' profile areas on the server (much trickier than with the regular home folders for user-controlled file storage), we turned off the Roaming Profiles.</li>\n	<li>The desktop-background setting script is not working, for three reasons, two of which we were able to fix. But net result, that leaves it not working.</li>\n	<li>Discussed formally getting TechCo input for our summer programs, and short-term advice onschedule and topics for an upcoming techco meeting.</li>\n	<li></li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Shoesmith</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Monday 3/12 online. Set up shoesmithblogs.cuip.net (also shoesmith.cuip.net) domain name and virtual host. Moving 3 teacher practice blogs into there.</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Sunday online 45 min. Tested upload methods for Gallery installation. I did not have the problems that Shaz and Carisa encountered using the Java applet; maybe paradoxically because this was from DSL instead of full Ethernet?? Otherwise, it suggests problem at the client computer. Anyway, I will try to meet with her/them at WCS and will recommend a method that separates upload and entry of the images in the Gallery system: that\'s the URL tab, which also works with a filepath on the server. So the technique is:\n<ol>\n	<li>Use SFTP to upload a big folder to the account. But preferably NOT in the Gallery or Albums area ... leave it to the program to manage those. So let\'s say, upload to /home/theaccount/raw-images/this-folder.</li>\n	<li>In Gallery, after opening Add Pictures window, choose URL tab and enter (not strictly a URL) the on-server filepath just given, i.e. /home/theaccount/raw-images/this-folder/.</li>\n	<li>After that is entered in Gallery, delete the upload folder on the server. Now we have a copy of the images on the client computer, and one on the server in the Gallery Albums area, but not the extra one on the server.</li>\n</ol>\n</li>\n	<li>Tuesday onsite, tried out different applets for Gallery, started working with Carisa on this but she had afterschool activity</li>\n	<li>Rechecked room 110 (Ms. Hamilton); the two computers in question were off the network again and showed the suspicious files. Let\'s do the clean full OS install then.</li>\n	<li>Wednesday, Carisa\'s lab-teacher computer had a number of problems, all stemming from a completely filled C: drive. There wasn\'t even enough temp space to *move* substantial folders onto D: or elsewhere [even after setting the system TEMP and TMP environment variables], until we outright deleted a little then moved in incremental sizes.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodson</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Met with Larry Spearman and we decided to confer with Dr. Arnall once again, before rushing into server upgrade</li>\n	<li>Christie and Sara worked with Ms Escadero on a  Library research session using wireless laptops.</li>\n	<li>On one of the desktops there in the library, I updated IE from 5.x to 6 to clear up script error messages she was getting frequently. Surprisingly difficult to do, because of the script-running errors. Eventually got Firefox, and then used that to download the IE6 installer. (Also suggested she try out FF.)</li>\n</ul>','Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule','','publish','open','closed','','jewels-and-binoculars-hang-from-the-head-of-the-mule','','','2007-03-20 07:13:53','2007-03-20 13:13:53','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/20/jewels-and-binoculars-hang-from-the-head-of-the-mule/',0,'post','',0),(185,31,'2007-03-12 12:13:55','2007-03-12 18:13:55','Your Name: Kathy Wagner\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/11\n\n[Week or date reporting on, if not most recent week: 2007/03/08]\n\nDay(s) worked or described: Th morning\n\nTotal hours for week:4\n\nThe School: Fermi\n\nKind of Work: Teacher Assistance, Tech General\n\nMain Report or Narrative: My Fermi Thursday was particularly busy as CPS was out on Monday.  I checked in with Ms. Stokley (207/205) who has a set-up with assistive technologies.  Her system works well; after quite an extensive search for pre-existing peripherals, Christe miraculously found a shiny new flat screen and magnification software in the office.  We connected the new monitor; this week I need to complete the software install (I am going to aim for Thursday morning, when her classroom is empty).  I connected with Ms. Meyer again (116) to take a look at her printer jam; I cleared it up, requisitioned from the office and installed new printer cartridges (as the old ones were completely dry), and set up the printer share for her classroom.  She should be \"off to the races\".  While working in the classroom, the reading resource teacher in rm. 120 found me and asked me to look at her computer; there\'re a few minor issues I need to address.  I also looked at the computer in the teacher\'s lounge, sorely in need of further looking-at, and continued the second floor inventory - which included installations and deep freezes on about 7 computers (2 rooms).  Word of my presence and schedule is spreading; teachers seem to increasingly know where and when to find me - a positive sign, I think.  I\'ve also been passing out my contact info in hopes of making our connections a bit more flexible.','Strawberry is not the only sort of jam at Fermi.','','publish','open','closed','','strawberry-is-not-the-only-sort-of-jam-at-fermi','','','2007-03-12 12:13:55','2007-03-12 18:13:55','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/12/strawberry-is-not-the-only-sort-of-jam-at-fermi/',0,'post','',0),(186,17,'2007-03-16 14:43:26','2007-03-16 20:43:26','Your Name: Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/16\n\n[Week 6]\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 6, 9 AM to 3 PM\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Tried to fix the wireless printer sharing problem in the Child Parent Center but to no success.  Not really a big deal since some of the computers are connected to the wireless printer via USBs and there is a sure way to eliminate the problem by bringing the router and the printer together and connect them for a moment but I just ran out of time to do it.  Helped Miss Porter fixed some minor problem in her computer.  Did some office work for Miss Williams.','Woodson Winter Quarter 2007 Week 6 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-quarter-2007-week-6-report','','','2007-03-16 14:43:26','2007-03-16 20:43:26','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/16/woodson-winter-quarter-2007-week-6-report/',0,'post','',0),(187,17,'2007-03-16 14:45:10','2007-03-16 20:45:10','Your Name: Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/16\n\n[Week 7]\n\nDay(s) worked or described: Did not attend work due to excessive homework.','Woodson Winter Quarter 2007 Week 7 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-quarter-2007-week-7-report','','','2007-03-16 14:45:10','2007-03-16 20:45:10','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/16/woodson-winter-quarter-2007-week-7-report/',0,'post','',0),(188,17,'2007-03-16 14:52:25','2007-03-16 20:52:25','Your Name: Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/16\n\n[Week 8]\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 6, 9 AM to 3 PM\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Worked mainly on the accreditation stuff in the Child Parent Center as Miss Williams is pretty confused on the work that needs to be done on computer for her school.  Then came back to Woodson and tested computers and monitors that Mister Spearman got from Computers for Schools, every worked fine and will be installed into classrooms that need them.','Woodson Winter Quarter 2007 Week 8 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-quarter-2007-week-8-report','','','2007-03-16 14:52:25','2007-03-16 20:52:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/16/woodson-winter-quarter-2007-week-8-report/',0,'post','',0),(189,17,'2007-03-16 15:04:53','2007-03-16 21:04:53','Your Name: Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/16\n\n[Week 9]\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 6, 9 AM to 3 PM\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Did mainly some Excel work for the accreditation stuff for Child Parent Center.  Installed Adobe Reader for Miss Porter as she requested.  Then came back to Woodson to installed 4 new computers in Mr. Drink\'s room, which forced out 4 really really old computers that I would not even call computers anymore.','Woodson Winter Quarter 2007 Week 9 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-quarter-2007-week-9-report','','','2007-03-16 15:04:53','2007-03-16 21:04:53','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/16/woodson-winter-quarter-2007-week-9-report/',0,'post','',1),(190,17,'2007-03-16 15:06:41','2007-03-16 21:06:41','Your Name: Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/16\n\n[Week 10]\n\nDay(s) worked or described: Did not attend work due to 0 hour of sleep on the previous in preparation for 2 finals and need excessive sleep today to make it up.','Woodson Winter Quarter Week 10 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-quarter-week-10-report','','','2007-03-16 15:06:41','2007-03-16 21:06:41','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/16/woodson-winter-quarter-week-10-report/',0,'post','',0),(191,2,'2007-03-24 08:55:38','2007-03-24 14:55:38','\n<h1>Staff  (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week begnning 2007/03/17</h1>\n<!-- br--><!-- br-->\n<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>\n[UofC spring break week]\n\n[CPS some carried-over ISAT testing this week]\n<ul>\n	<li>ENTR/Leader joint Library -- Tues 3/20, for 4:20; Weds. for 1:30, total 5:50</li>\n	<li>Till weds 2:00, Fri 2:00. total 4:00</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn - Mon. 3/19, phone and email for 30 min; Weds. 3/21 in-person for 45 min, total 1:15</li>\n	<li>Woodson - thurs 1:15</li>\n</ul>\nSheesh, Angus, can\'t you sit <em>anywhere </em>else?  I need the keyboard back!\n<strong>===============================</strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Schedule a Tech Coordinators meeting!\n<ul>\n	<li>Inquiry mail went out Tuesday morning</li>\n	<li>Sparse responses.  But looks like we should go with the inservice-day option again.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Woodson,Meet with Larry Spearman and Dr. Arnall re the latter\'s classroom management ideas\n<ul>\n	<li>Sara and I scheduled for 2:30 Thursday, Arnall had to cancel but did talk with us for 10 minutes.  See report in Woodson area.</li>\n	<li>Return next monday afternoon.</li>\n	<li>Our priority is to support Spearman.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Lyceum new version test installs (for Murray)\n<ul>\n	<li>Not done</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Till — RC installation automation (look at Fiske GPO logon script for a regedit example, also Sanjaya\'s desktop script at Murray) (Also try GPO software install key, as at Ray)\n<ul>\n	<li>See  Till report.  This task item will be closed out,  as \"Didn\'t work\".</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Servers space and backup (esp WIT and CWD)\n<ul>\n	<li>Look into different backup options\n<ul>\n	<li>V. Galtsev not much help</li>\n	<li>Got a new NAS.  Close to what we need!  See next week\'s report, Saturday.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Start on Apache 2 / PHP 5 installation on WIT server\n<ul>\n	<li>To support WPMU among other things</li>\n	<li>Probably should be done (solo task essentially) <strong>AHEAD of CPS spring break week</strong>, so that we can do some group development in WPMU and transfer of standalone blogs to WPMU, when staff and NSPs will be available to execute those.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>WP standalones upgrade to 2.1.2\n<ul>\n	<li>WIT (blogs.cuip.net) server done last week</li>\n	<li>blogs2 to be done -- discussed wth Erin but as a secondary part of what she will be doing</li>\n	<li>It wouldn\'t be too hard to adapt the \"newblog\" installation perl script into one for this upgrade\n<ul>\n	<li>Jimmy Salvatore is on the case!</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>After this round, we can put in the \"Instant upgrade\" plugin and leave it up to each blog owner</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>WP standalones theme and plugin distribution\n<ul>\n	<li>Erin will continue selecting / editing themes</li>\n	<li>The newblog script also would be good starting point for one to handle the implementation/installation of this, though with considerable manual intervention possibly needed</li>\n	<li>This may not be ready for CPS Break Week ...bt it would sure be nice if it were!</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Carried forward: Techwiki entries for\n<ul>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part I, how to get from SI to file: this entry exsts, add note about not trusting floppies, use thumbdrive or direct upload to server</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part II, what to do with the file — stub only in place, take from email sent to Bryan</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Power-on passwords and Setup Admin Passwords: take from email with Jimmy and Linda Sudduth</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Added to this to-do list: the CPSWIRELESS notes</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Status this week: </strong>Umm .... no progress.<strong>\n</strong></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups in CUIP lab, using WD NetCenter Drive\n<ul>\n	<li>Brought in my own copy of the CD (the office copy is misplaced)</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Did not install. Try again next week.</li>\n	<li><strong>NEW this week 07/03/22:</strong> I like the newer NAS better!</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS or other CMS. Last week: –Still deferred.</li>\n	<li>Look into other Wikis, which may support more CMS-like features, plus individual page ownerships</li>\n	<li>Waiting for spring break or summer: look into “Google Apps for Domains” [as it is no longer called]</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Space and backups for our Linux servers\n<ul>\n	<li>Make sense out of which ones will accept NFS cross-mounts from each other and from new NAS</li>\n	<li>Decide whether it is better to use FTP, SMBMOUNT, or NFS to augment server storage (and backup storage) with new NAS.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Some shifting around for Christie\'s schools.  I accompanied Sara to Woodson, where she will smoothly take over projects; but current focus there on Dr. Arnall\'s requests and working wth Mr. Spearman fall more into the tech bailiwick.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Email with Compteach list to set date and agenda for next CUIP TechCo meeting</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>eCUIP</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>     The CWD server is a main focus for the \"server space\" and \"server backups\" items laced thru this report.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Brought in a labeller to continue neatening up the office.</li>\n	<li>Ordered and received a new supply of 10 copies of the Owl Book (O\'Reilly publishing \"Learning the Unix Operatng System\"), Fifth Edition.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Servers</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>  (Weekend, @ beginning of week)  Shopped for and brought in new NAS, which is supposed to work with Samba, FTP, <em>and</em> NFS.</li>\n	<li> (Weekend, @ end of week)  Worked with this some more, had backups for CWD almost entirely working.  But ran into file size limit, because underlying disk format is ... wait for it ... FAT!  So it won\'t take tar files bigger than 2 GB.  And non-tar archival file-copying loses all owner and mode info.  So I set it to reformat its disk to ext2 or ext3, which they anticipate will be needed and build into the control interface.  It reached 100% and rebooted, but did not reappear on the network.  I guess I should go visit it.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Canter</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Online Thurs 10 mins.  Based on Russ\'s report from convo with Ms. Ahad about students with INSTR logins getting \"password expired\" messages, I remote-desktopped to the Canter server and reset these attributes.  We don\'t know why these sometimes go over to the wrong setting.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>ENTR/Leader joint Library -- Tues 3/20, for 4:20.</li>\n	<li>Updated server (Server 2003) to SP2</li>\n	<li>Installed student lookup-only version of the client on a couple stations in the student cluster, and after some wireless woes installed full version on librarian\'s circulation desk computer.</li>\n	<li>With Ms. Conlon, got SI Athena listings for the two schools from two different offices, input them into Athena using \"Patron Porter\".  There are 800+ users.</li>\n	<li>For some reason, the books we imported last week were not available to the student lookup-only version of Athena.  They weren\'t lost.     The software finally let us transfer from the invisible Collection to the main Collection, where they can be used.</li>\n	<li>Helped Ms. Conlon practice using the software for check-out/check-in, even without scanner.</li>\n	<li>The barcode scanner uses PS/2 keyboard port, but the circulation desk computer is all-USB. Maybe it will help to switch over to the Dell 270 sitting idle on the desk. Consult with Erik and/or Russ on Wednesday.</li>\n	<li>Did Norwegian disk on that Dell 270 [techco and zprotect both were locked out], then installed SMC USB Wireless, renamed, remediated, updates, and installed Athena.  So this one will be a good alternative.  (At the moment, these 2 computers are sharing one screen, one mouse, one kbd.)</li>\n	<li>Weds. 3/21, with Russ, for 1:30</li>\n	<li>We got the scanner working on the Dell tower model with the PS/2 ports.  The scanner does require a keyboard of that type; that is, it doesn\'t work to have just the scanner going into the computer at thePS/2 port and a keyboard separately working via USB.</li>\n	<li>Added books from diskettes she has gotten outside the main Spalding HS transfer CD.</li>\n	<li>For some reason, the USB wireless adapter stopped being detected;  worked after reloading driver + utilities.  That experience, and the general slowness of the wireless at that location for an admin function like this, make us want to string a cable.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>See Entrepreneurship. The library is a joint operation.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Weds 3/21.  Checked-in with  Linda, discussed next year plans, our TechCo meeting scheduling, IMPACT readiness.</li>\n	<li>Reading Counts is not much used in the lab after all.  But for the sake of the Library (and potentially more classrooms) we still want to make it work for different logins.  In any case,  Jimmy and I determined that the correct data path is just in a client-computer registry key, and we have an almost complete solution, pending a bit of clarification on VBS syntax for setting reg keys.</li>\n	<li>Friday.  That approach works but doesn\'t work :) .  I decided to give up and put it all back as it was.</li>\n	<li>Worked from Primary Library.  Inez described plans and student activities connected with the Wright 3.  The students are saving their \"Letter to the Author\"  documents to the desktop, with potential dangerous interaction with Deep Freeze.  I showed her the Thaw Space drive and suggested having students save there (or to network folder).  This needs some followup.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Mon. 3/19, phone and email for 30 min - Advice on E-Rate and wireless</li>\n	<li>Weds. 3/21 in person conversation with Carisa on same topic, 45 mins.  She called back Bill the E-Rate Wireless guy while I was there and asked for cards for both laptops and desktops but in limited numbers.  This will imply wireless access points throughout the building rather than just portables to go with the cart.  He mentioned getting gigabit switches in. She asked directly \"The plan will not involve disconnecting any currently wired rooms, right?\" and he confirmed.</li>\n	<li>Still on our to-do list:  Clean re-install of  OS etc., for Ms. Hamilton\'s two infected computers.</li>\n	<li>They are starting on their annual African country-per-classroom projects.  I reminded Shaz to please sub-lend my Missa Luba tour-of-Africa video disk to Carisa.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodson</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Thurs 3/22 with Sara, for 1:15.  We met only briefly with Dr. Arnall   but then for a full discussion with Larry Spearman on Dr. Arnall\'s issues.</li>\n	<li>[CONFIDENTIAL] Dr. Arnall\'s tech-based classroom-management ideas strike me as okay in themselves, but not really worth the fuss.  This is not likely to result in something portable that can significantly  contribute to the learning environment at other schools, or even other classes at CGWS.</li>\n	<li>But it probably is worth the effort for CUIP to stay in good graces of all parties, and relieve Mr. Spearman of dealing with the issues on his own.  Also it is good for us and the school to have us working closely with Spearman and exchanging tech insights.  And whether or not the big project comes to fruition, the work can easily help the tech environment in small ways right away,for instance by showing him how to control the printer queue.</li>\n	<li>We have a return meeting Monday afterschool, then probably will arrange to work in the school during CPS break :(.</li>\n	<li>Sara  did a quick check-in with  the librarian, Ms  Escadero.</li>\n</ul>','They also serve who only stand and wait','','publish','open','closed','','they-also-serve-who-only-stand-and-wait','','','2007-03-24 08:55:38','2007-03-24 14:55:38','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/24/they-also-serve-who-only-stand-and-wait/',0,'post','',0),(192,2,'2007-04-01 16:44:29','2007-04-01 22:44:29','\n<h2>Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/03/24</h2>\n[UofC Spring Quarter 1st Week]\n\n[CPS last week before Spring Break]\n\n[Friday 3/30 day off]\n<h2>School (and some Non-School) Hours Summary</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Server backups (esp CWD): Saturday 3/24, 5 hrs; Sunday 3/25 (actually monday early a.m.) 1:30</li>\n	<li>Staff desktop Network Security issue Wednesday and Thursday, 30 minutes of email spread over both days, 2 hours of direct restore work</li>\n	<li>Fermi, Weds 2:00</li>\n	<li>Fiske Weds. 1:30</li>\n	<li>Murray, Tues email 15 mins, Thurs 0nsite 20 mins,total 35 mins</li>\n	<li>Sexton Weds. 1:30</li>\n	<li>Till, Thurs ~2:00</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn Tues 4:00</li>\n	<li>Woodson, Monday 3/26, for 1:20</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do\'s</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Server backups (using new NAS [Network Access Storage])\n<ul>\n	<li>I\'ve got a much better handle on \"smbmount\" than before. (Using SAMBA [Windows-like networking] to attach a drive or share to a Linux machine.) The new NAS also does a good job of sharing by NFS [the system \" native\" to Unix/Linux, and now Mac OS X too], and for that matter good ol\' FTP too (but not SFTP).</li>\n	<li>Despite some oddities of using this form of storage for backups, I got a full backup (suitable for manual disaster-recovery) of content/data/media from the Chicago Web Docent server, the CUIP-related project which was least-well backed up. Running an update to the backup seems to take the system not more than an hour.</li>\n	<li>To do next: Extend to WIT, the main CUIP-in-the-schools server.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Schedule a Tech Coordinators meeting!\n<ul>\n	<li>We made some progress, with direct inquiries.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Woodson, Meet with Larry Spearman and Dr. Arnall re the latter’s classroom management idea\n<ul>\n	<li>See Woodson report in main (Schools) section</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Start on Apache 2 / PHP 5 installation on WIT server\n<ul>\n	<li>To support WPMU among other things</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Probably should be done (solo task essentially) <strong>AHEAD of CPS spring break week</strong>, so that we can do some group development in WPMU and transfer of standalone blogs to WPMU, when staff and NSPs will be available to execute those.</li>\n	<li>Last week: No progress.</li>\n	<li>This week: Noprogress.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>WP standalones upgrade to 2.1.2\n<ul>\n	<li>WIT (blogs.cuip.net) server done two weeks back!</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>blogs2 to be done — discussed wth Erin but as a secondary part of what she will be doing</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>It wouldn’t be too hard to adapt the “newblog” installation perl script into one for this upgrade\n<ul>\n	<li>Jimmy Salvatore is on the case!</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>After this round, we can put in the “Instant upgrade” plugin and leave it up to each blog owner</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>WP standalones theme and plugin distribution\n<ul>\n	<li>Erin has completed selecting themes\n<ul>\n	<li>Now edit / fix some which need it</li>\n	<li>Adjust the distribution folder for new standalone WP</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>The newblog script also would be good starting point for one to handle the implementation/installation of this, though with considerable manual intervention possibly needed</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>This may not be ready for CPS Break Week …bt it would sure be nice if it were!</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Carried forward: Techwiki entries for\n<ul>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part I, how to get from SI to file: this entry exsts, add note about not trusting floppies, use thumbdrive or direct upload to server</li>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part II, what to do with the file — stub only in place, take from email sent to Bryan</li>\n	<li>Power-on passwords and Setup Admin Passwords: take from email with Jimmy and Linda Sudduth</li>\n	<li>Added to this to-do list: the CPSWIRELESS notes</li>\n	<li><strong>Status last week: </strong>Umm …. no progress</li>\n	<li>This week? : noprogress this week either.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups in CUIP lab, using WD NetCenter Drive\n<ul>\n	<li>Brought in my own copy of the CD (the office copy is misplaced)</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Did not install. Try again next week.</li>\n	<li><strong>NEW last week 07/03/22:</strong> I like the newer NAS better!</li>\n	<li>Server backups (using new NAS) entered in non-stalled section as separate item.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS or other CMS. Last week, this week, any week: –Still deferred.</li>\n	<li>Look into other Wikis, which may support more CMS-like features, plus individual page ownerships</li>\n	<li>Waiting for spring break or summer: look into “Google Apps for Domains” [as it is no longer called]</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>    Investigate the printer setup by registry idea\n<ul>\n	<li>Tried at Sexton, learned something.</li>\n	<li>See Murray</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Murray -- find out what the story is with the printer replacements\n<ul>\n	<li>See Melissa\'s report, <a href=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/30/murray-week-4/\">http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/30/murray-week-4/</a></li>\n	<li>If, as Melissa\'s mention of parallel cable suggests, these are being shared from computers, what is the method to make them work for multi student logins? Go see Joe about whether they need sme additional system, like Location-Based Printing [requiring a VBS login script] or this new Printer-Setup-by-Registry idea.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Fermi - finish lounge-singer OS reinstall, excuse me, lounge <em>computer</em> OS reinstall.</li>\n	<li>ENTR/Leadr - How is the Athena station doing? Can we string a cable?</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week\'s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Worked with Michael Hebert (NSP VISTA) on using Dreamweaver to maintain NSP web site. Admirably, he wants to make it independently sustainable by his successors.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>eCUIP</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\nStaff desktop Network Security issue Wednesday and Thursday, 30 minutes of email spread over both days,  2 hours of direct restore work. To do: finish saving data, second round of temp W2K install. Longer term -- make better acquaintance with Valeri Galtsev.\n\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Servers</h3>\nSee above about backup strategies.\n\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week\'s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Canter</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Russ checked their server, which looked okay.  Probably just my login is wrong :(</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fermi</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Wednesday visited Fermi with Shaz and Pierre.   We looked at the lab together.</li>\n	<li>The first-floor counselors  had asked  for help with installing software and a printer on their computers,permissions issue.  Very good result, I set her CPS login as local admin on both machines, then they did their installations successfully.  But it seems wrong that schools are buying copies of Acrobat to save filled-in forms; Central Office should be handling some other way.</li>\n	<li>The computer in the teachers\' lounge is having disk oddities.  I finally gave up on gentle install-in-place and replaced partition table and started low-level format, preparatory to OS install.</li>\n	<li>The teacher from 107 asked me to look at a screen in her room; it turned out simply not plugged in firmly.</li>\n	<li>The teacher from 103 reminded me that she has a burned-out screen on a student computer (which Christie and I verified some time ago).  A procedure for authorizing moves of components needs to be set up.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fiske</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li> Weds. I met with Ms Cobbs today, and we made progress on both areas of her concerns.</li>\n	<li>On the school laptop, I used zprotect to set her usual login (\"office\", not her CPS email name) as an administrator, and then in that account installed that all-in-one via USB.  And it prints.\nThe problem is, it prints very messy and dirty.  It\'s not a matter of a bad driver.  Possibly a dirty print drum or something like that, or maybe just settings. I didn\'t delve into the manual.</li>\n	<li> On her home laptop I first tried out the HP reset disks, but they made it  quite clear the process would totally wipe the drive and replace it from   the CDs . Also tried the Windows XP installer (came in the same package and had a  lot of HP branding, but it was basically the MS disk).  I was hoping to overwrite just the Windows folder, but it said there was a disk problem and it would only format or quit, so we quit.  The Repair Console was no help, and also reported disk problem.  I suggested that we might pull the HD and take the data off, before going wth the HP total refresh.  She understands how that would work.  I tried to pull the HD right then -- not to start the procedure but to have a look at the drive and the connector -- but it turns out I couldn\'t tell how to get at it.  Her user manual did show the location, and I removed one screw that seemed like it might be holding it, but I didn\'t finally get anywhere.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Murray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday email 15 mins, domain login issues and Veritas remote agent errors.</li>\n	<li>Thursday onsite 20 mins for same thing.  We looked at the user record for Techco on srv02, which had expired password, and cleared the password request.</li>\n	<li>Friday by email Joe confirmed Veritas remote backup did work!</li>\n	<li>to do: Find out what the story is with the printer replacements.  See Melissa\'s report, <a href=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/30/murray-week-4/\">http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/30/murray-week-4/</a> If, as Melissa\'s mention of parallel cable suggests, these are being shared from computers, what is the method to make them work for multi student logins? Go see Joe about whether they need sme additional system, like Location-Based Printing [requiring a VBS login script] or this new Printer-Setup-by-Registry idea.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Ray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Looked at good progress  on new site.</li>\n	<li>To  do:  Suggest meeting for Gabe and Dawei with some CUIP staff at our offices</li>\n	<li>On request from Mary Cobb, remotely cleared \"Password must be changed at next login\" and set \"Password never expires\" for all student entries.  Unclear why these ever revert to the wrong settings!</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Sexton</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Visited lab Wednesday with Sara to check connections ahead of Blog/IMPACT session for Thursday.</li>\n	<li>Tried out printer setup by registry on computer 17.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Ms Thurman\'s office computer -- verified she is a local admin, and downloaded/installed Adobe Reader v. 8.</li>\n	<li>There were two IMPACT training sessions, one for each building.</li>\n	<li>In the big building, the meeting was in the science lab 204, and Mr. Poole led the teachers through the Self-Paced Training materials (the PDF docs).  One teacher\'s login worked for CPSmail but not for the IMPACT materials; Sudduth is aware of this and the help desk has been contacted. (I logged her in as library4740 to follow the lessons, but she won\'t get credit.)</li>\n	<li>In the small building, the meeting was in lab 513 (Sudduth\'s lab), conducted by Ms Schoppman and using the \"sandbox\".  Nicely organized!</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Internet down for much of week, Ameritech problems.</li>\n	<li>Carisa and I loaded CPS W2K on two problem computers in 110.  Could not complete setup with drivers and OTS remediation, in part a matter of time, but also hampered by lack of Internet.</li>\n	<li>I sat in on the Dell Tech Know session.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodson</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Monday 3/26, with Sara, met with Larry Spearman. 1 hr 20 min</li>\n	<li>They have taken care of Dr. Arnall\'s requirements themselves, cooperatively. (Larry very generously suggests our involvement was a bridge that helped get them thinking in certain directions and working together to implement the plans.)</li>\n	<li>I demo\'d the use of printer queue Pause setting, will send Larry some background info on using printer shares with multi users.</li>\n	<li>We discussed the plans for the upcoming TechCo meeting; with the possibility that he could present this project, and also tt be a that Woodson might be a suitable venue for the meeting!</li>\n</ul>','The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom','','publish','open','closed','','the-road-of-excess-leads-to-the-palace-of-wisdom','','','2007-04-01 16:44:29','2007-04-01 22:44:29','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/01/the-road-of-excess-leads-to-the-palace-of-wisdom/',0,'post','',0),(193,15,'2007-03-27 15:06:07','2007-03-27 21:06:07','<strong>Your Name:</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/03/27\n\n[Week or date reporting about, if not most recent week: 2007/03/06,08]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T Θ\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Kenwood Academy</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Helping Teacher\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\n<strong>I spent most of Tuesday fiddling with LanStar and making sure I knew how each function worked, and that they worked properly. I also set up Room 121 so that I could train teachers and tech crew members in using LanStar. This involved reinstalling LanStar on the master console in Room 121, as the current installation was corrupt. After making sure LanStar worked properly in Room 121, I learned how to make a CAT5 cable from one of the tech crew members. </strong>\n\n<strong>On Thursday, I continued exploring LanStar, particularly the Group and EBoard! functions, and wrote up an outline for the training session. The training session itself took a little over half an hour, and involved two teachers and two tech crew members, plus Mrs. Constantine and Erik. It went well, and the teachers both took notes in addition to the outline I handed out. Hopefully, they will both be able to integrate LanStar into their daily classes. They both teach in Room 121, so they should be able to access LanStar immediately.</strong>','Lanstar Training at Kenwood','','publish','open','closed','','lanstar-training-at-kenwood','','','2007-03-27 15:06:07','2007-03-27 21:06:07','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/27/lanstar-training-at-kenwood/',0,'post','',0),(194,15,'2007-03-29 15:15:00','2007-03-29 21:15:00','<strong>Your Name: Trevor Morse</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/03/29\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T  Θ\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Kenwood Academy</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work: </strong>Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\n<strong>I spent Tuesday troubleshooting one of the laptop carts. Reportedly, the laptops weren\'t getting internet connection from the wireless access point, although when I went through each laptop individually, I managed to get all except three of them to connect one way or another; most simply needed their connections repaired. Laptops #4,5 and 18 I was unable to connect by any means.</strong>\n\n<strong>On Thursday, I inventoried all of the laptop carts, including laptops, printers, printer switches, and WAPs. This involved retrieving the carts, then using a scanner to scan the barcodes on the equipment, then set up an Excel sheet to include information such as workstation numbers, Asset numbers, Serials numbers, and equipment type and number.</strong>','Troubleshooting and Inventory','','publish','open','closed','','troubleshooting-and-inventory','','','2007-03-29 15:15:00','2007-03-29 21:15:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/29/troubleshooting-and-inventory/',0,'post','',0),(195,28,'2007-03-30 14:18:20','2007-03-30 20:18:20','Melissa Weihmayer\n3-30-2007\nWednesday, Friday, 4.5 hours total\nMurray Language Academy\nLab help\n\nAfter a few weeks away for finals and vacation, coming back was easier than expected. The major task at hand: installing new printers. The school is getting rid of (I\'m not sure how since they cannot be sold) color HP printers due to the steep price of the ink refills. On Wednesday, I installed four printers in different classrooms, each requiring about 20 minutes of setup time. Truthfully, the most difficult part was lifting the older HP printers, which were probably twice my weight and rather awkward to carry. Three more on Friday (today) - I had some trouble fixing one parallel cable and the internet was down for about 30 minutes, but all else was fine. Hopefully once the printers are all set-up and networked correctly, we can start working/meeting with teachers again to think up more tech projects for the kids. ','Murray Week 4','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-4','','','2007-03-30 14:18:20','2007-03-30 20:18:20','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/30/murray-week-4/',0,'post','',0),(196,10,'2007-03-30 21:06:55','2007-03-31 03:06:55','Bryan Duff\nRay School\nTuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 8 hours\nThings are good at Ray.  We certainly miss Sanjaya already.  \n\nMs. Lancaster\'s computer still failed despite Dell replacing the hard drive.  They\'re coming in after break to switch the motherboard.  Hopefully that works out.\n\nI have yet to check in with Rafael about the Spanish blog.  But it seems to be going okay.  I mainly just kept up with the normal tech duties.  Today we cleaned up the lab and got things organized before spring break.  We have quite a few working spare parts, which is always good.','Spring: Week 1 at Ray','','publish','open','closed','','spring-week-1-at-ray','','','2007-03-30 21:06:55','2007-03-31 03:06:55','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/30/spring-week-1-at-ray/',0,'post','',0),(197,26,'2007-03-31 18:06:47','2007-04-01 00:06:47','Name: Dawei\nToday’s Date: 2007/03/31\nDays Worked: Tu, W, F\nTotal Hours: 4.5\nSchool: Ray\nKind of Work: website project\n\nThere wasn\'t much progress towards the end of last quarter due to finals and over the break, so I\'ll start with this week. In Tuesday I met with Ms. Sheridan and we went over some of the work she completed on her own. Overall, the majority of the content are up and running, only a few sections (website history, student resources, teachers resources, etc) are left. There were a few problems with the format of content. Since Ms. Sheridan seemed to copy and pasted some of the content in Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver inserted some custom font styles to those text, so that it doesn\'t match up with the overall format. It appeared in a few of the pages, since we didn\'t have much time during the meeting, I copied the files and worked on the code cleaning afterwards. Also, I showed Ms. Sheridan a more visual way to represent the school admission boundaries using <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=http://lewiselementary.org/maps/newlewisfolder.kmz&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=15&amp;om=1\">Google Maps</a>, which I found on another school\'s website. She liked the idea a lot, so I\'m still working on that. \n\nRay School will have its spring break next week, and Ms. Sheridan will be out of town, I think we will meet sometimes the week after. So far so good, Ms. Sheridan is very eager to put the website up.','Ray Website Week 10','','publish','open','closed','','ray-website-week-10','','','2007-03-31 18:06:47','2007-04-01 00:06:47','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/31/ray-website-week-10/',0,'post','',0),(198,2,'2007-04-20 06:54:25','2007-04-20 12:54:25','\n<p class=\"main\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h2> Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/03/31</h2>\n[i.e., Two weeks back]\n<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>\n<h3>[CPS Spring Vacation week!]</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Fermi: Tuesday 4/3 with group, 4:15</li>\n	<li>ENTR/LDR: wednesday 4/4 with group, 3:00</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>        Finish data backup then clean-reinstall w2K on compromised staff desktop computer\n<ul>\n	<li>Done -- twice :( .</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Investigate the printer setup by registry idea\n<ul>\n	<li>Still viable</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Murray — find out what the story is with the printer replacements\n<ul>\n	<li>See Melissa’s report, <a href=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/30/murray-week-4/\">http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/03/30/murray-week-4/</a></li>\n	<li>If, as Melissa’s mention of parallel cable suggests, these are being shared  from computers, what is the method to make them work for multi student logins?  Go see Joe about whether they need sme additional system, like Location-Based  Printing [requiring a VBS login script] or this new Printer-Setup-by-Registry  idea.</li>\n	<li>Didn\'t fnd out dring break week, will do so first week back</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Fermi - finish lounge  <em>computer</em> OS reinstall.\n<ul>\n	<li>Checked up on this computer during our visit to Fermi, concluded the disk problems wll keep us from dealing wth it even by format-reinstall.  Took Service Tag number, Erik will check with Dell to see if it\'s still on warrantee.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>ENTR/Leadr - How is the Athena station doing? Can we string a cable\n<ul>\n	<li>We <em>did </em>string a cable.  Russ will work with Mary-Ellen on using the system.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li> Server backups\n<ul>\n	<li>CWD continues okay -- check</li>\n	<li>See if PSD or NSIT really will not do their part</li>\n	<li>Start on WIT: no progress this week</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Schedule a Tech Coordinators meeting!\n<ul>\n	<li>Not looking good</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Start on Apache 2 / PHP 5 installation on WIT server\n<ul>\n	<li>To support WPMU among other things</li>\n	<li>Probably should be done (solo task essentially) <strong>AHEAD of CPS spring  break week</strong>, so that we can do some group development in WPMU and  transfer of standalone blogs to WPMU, when staff and NSPs will be available to  execute those. [May be toolate for this resolution...]</li>\n	<li>2 weeks back: No progress.</li>\n	<li>Last week: No progress</li>\n	<li>This week: indirect progress</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>WP standalones upgrade to 2.1.2\n<ul>\n	<li>WIT (blogs.cuip.net) server done 3 weeks back!</li>\n	<li>Meet with Jimmy, Tuesday(?), for script development, meet with TRAs Thursday(?) to demo database access and demo the script.</li>\n	<li>Okay, but couldn\'t complete group plan.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>WP standalones theme and plugin distribution\n<ul>\n	<li>Erin has completed selecting themes (back 2 weeks)</li>\n	<li>NEW OBSERVATION: The version of the themes really matters!</li>\n	<li>Further strategizing is needed</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Carried forward: Techwiki entries for\n<ul>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part I, how to get from SI to file: this entry  exsts, add note about not trusting floppies, use thumbdrive or direct upload to  server</li>\n	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part II, what to do with the file — stub only  in place, take from email sent to Bryan</li>\n	<li>Power-on passwords and Setup Admin Passwords: take from email with Jimmy and  Linda Sudduth</li>\n	<li>Added to this to-do list: the CPSWIRELESS notes</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups  in CUIP lab, using WD NetCenter Drive\n<ul>\n	<li>Brought in my own copy of the CD (the office copy is misplaced)</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Did not install. Try again next week.</li>\n	<li><strong>NEW last week 07/03/22:</strong> I like the newer NAS better!</li>\n	<li>Server backups (using new NAS) entered in non-stalled section as separate  item.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS or other CMS. Last  week, this week, any week: –Still deferred.\n<ul>\n	<li>This week: Developer of Skeletonz got a new job, will not be  offering as much support.  Other candidates should be moved up on the list.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Look into other Wikis, which may support more CMS-like features, plus  individual page ownerships</li>\n	<li>Waiting for spring break or summer: look into “Google Apps for Domains” [as  it is no longer called]</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>    Sara and Shaz have modified some NSP/School matchings</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>    Worked on staff desktop computer recovery.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Personal Professional-Development Activities</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Started familiarizing myself more intensively with Mac OS X\n<ul>\n	<li>Underlying \"Darwin\" Unix system is BSD-like, not Linux.</li>\n	<li>Found out how to set root password.  Made some folders in system areas without ruining things...</li>\n	<li>Personal web server for \"Sites\" folders is on by default.  The server software is simply Apache 1.3.33.  I don\'t  yet follow how \"launchd\" works. Considering trying out an install of Apache 2 just to practice ....</li>\n	<li>Mac/Windows comparison #1:  The Mac  handling of laptop  sleep / hibernate / wake is way ahead of Windows.</li>\n	<li>Mac/Windows comparison #2: No, the one-button mouse is not a wonder of simplicity, since you then need to master additional modifier keys.  However, a \"Mighty Mouse\"helps a lot -- provides a right-click which works as a Mac option key plus mouse-click.</li>\n	<li>The magnifier is great!  [I use from the Mighty Mouse, not sure where it is in regular interface.]  The tiny wheel on the Mighty Mouse is also surprisingly effective, more efficient scrolling.   I also like the option setting for whether clicking in a window scroll bar means advance one page or jump all the way to the proportional location; I much prefer the latter; not sure if it\'s a mouse feature or is an available setting with the touchpad as well.  The main feature of this mouse that I haven\'t caught on to yet is the side-squeeze feature.</li>\n	<li>Terminal is built-in and thus ssh client is easily done without a separate program.  However, I miss the per-profile font and background settings in the SSH.COM windows program.</li>\n	<li>Programs that apparently do not have Mac versions: SSH.com free client with graphical SFTP (but ssh itself is built-in); Microsoft Internet Explorer (don\'t care)</li>\n	<li>Programs that do have Mac versions, much like the Windows versions: Eudora email client (Yay!!); Opera web browser!!; Firefox of course; MS Remote Desktop Connection</li>\n	<li>Wi-Fi performance excellent, interface okay. Combined with excellent sleep/wake handling, this is really good! With Windows laptop it was always a struggle to get it to wake up, and then additionally re-establish WiFi connection; often failed and required reboot.</li>\n	<li> Connection to Windows file sharing is okay, but not quite as many features as in native Windows interfaces.</li>\n	<li>Mac-specialized programs I haven\'t really explored yet: Microsoft\'s Office pack (academic version -- I used my UofC discount); Apple\'s iWork.</li>\n	<li>Either QuickTime itself is much quicker and better-behaved on the Mac than on Windows, or the way iTunes runs QT.  The observable effect anyway is that I can background run a playlist in iTunes that includes a music video without freezing or crawling my foreground work, which on Windows just doesn\'t work together.</li>\n	<li>Have not yet installed Parallels Desktop (even though seeing it demo\'ed was sort-of what sold me on trying Mac).  Probably because I haven\'t decided/obtained which version of Windows to install.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Led by Erik, the whole group visited on Tuesday 4/3 and cleaned out the storage vault.  We uncovered some tech items, notably a box of 512 M  RAM DIMMs for Macs,  some Mac HDDs, and a few hubs.</li>\n	<li>In the Library, Russ and I strung a CAT5 cable overhead (there was already one, so this was adding to the unsightliness but not initiating it) to connect the main desk to the concentrator box.  The computer where the librarian will be doing circulation via the Athena program should not be relying on a  (somewhat cranky anyway) wireless connection.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fermi</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>On Wednesday 4/4 we made a group visit.  Shaz and Pierre conferred with Dr. Sanders and Mr. Taylor, while the remainder of our group got started checking &amp; updating the computer cluster in the Library.</li>\n	<li>Are they short of mice and keyboards, or do they have a \"lock them away\"  strategy (like the South Shore High Schools) to  keep these peripherals from being taken away or damaged by unsupervised students?  In either case, we had to use our own mice, which luckily most of us do pack in our carrybags.</li>\n	<li>We  finished up several of those okay, but others  need further attention in the first week back.</li>\n	<li>We also inspected a collection of laptop computers.  Some we had to recommend Asset Disposal for, but a very nice HP was in good shape and mostly was correctly configured for OTS remediation specs.  We ran some Windows Updates and turned it over to the Principal for her use.</li>\n	<li>The Dell Optiplex 280 (with SATA drive) in the teachers\' lounge is not even completing a disk format reliably.  It should be handled as a repair item, hopefully under a warranty.  (Erik has the Service Tag and will check whether still warrantied.)</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>See Entrepreneurship report.  The Library is shared by the two schools.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Ray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Email on Ray website revision with Dawei and with Gabe Sheridan — who it turns out was away taking a real vacation!</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Thought for the week</strong>\n\n\"Dunkel ist das Leben, ist der Tod.\" -- \"Dark is life, [dark] is death.\"\n\n<strong>What\'s playing now?</strong>\n\nIt\'s a little quick and lively ... it\'s delightfully graceful ... must be <em>Allegretto gracioso</em>!\n\n<a href=\"http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=9253067&amp;s=143441&amp;i=9252982\" target=\"_blank\">http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=9253067&amp;s=143441&amp;i=9252982</a>','Standin on the corner, suitcase in my hand','','publish','open','closed','','standin-on-the-corner-suitcase-in-my-hand','','','2007-04-20 06:54:25','2007-04-20 12:54:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/20/standin-on-the-corner-suitcase-in-my-hand/',0,'post','',0),(199,24,'2007-04-04 00:58:13','2007-04-04 06:58:13','Name: Ariel Hafftka\nThe School: Entrepreneurship\nToday\'s Date: Apr 4, 2007\nDays described Mar 27, 29, and 30\nMain report/narrative:\n\nMar 27\n*Brought the G5 in Dr. Edwards\' office to room 106.\n*Brought Dell from room 112 to Dr. Edwards office.\n*Installed a driver for Mr. Boyd\'s printer in 201.\n*Followed up on a work order for a G5 in room 105; the computer works.\n*Fixed the Internet on two computers in room 212.  The system needs to be reinstalled on the computer with the sticky note.\n\nMar 29\n*Helped Ms. Shushma disable iTunes on Macs in computer lab\n*Worked on the printer 5100cn in room 112.  Installed a new yellow toner cartridge.  Emptied the printer queue.  The second computer in the room needs an Ethernet wire, and the third is lacking all components except the CPU unit.\n*Spoke with Mr. Stuart regarding a technology project we will do with his Advanced Small Business class.\n\nMar 30\n*Met with Mr. Stuart, Erik, and the Small Business class to discuss the Tech 2007 project, in which students will create a presentation and write an article that shows how important technology is and how it is used at Entrepreneurship, with the goal of asking legislators to fund technology at Entrepreneurship.  The team name is The Fast and the Furious.  Over the break students will research who are their local legislators.  Erik provided the project organizer’s website springfieldtech2000.org.\n*Reset password on eMac in room 106\n*The screen on another eMac in rm 106 with a sticky note does not work\n*Partially reinstalled MAC OS X on a G5 in room 212.  I will complete the installation when I return.','Tech 2007 Project at Entrepreneurship','','publish','open','closed','','tech-2007-project','','','2007-04-04 00:58:13','2007-04-04 06:58:13','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/04/tech-2007-project/',0,'post','',0),(200,26,'2007-04-07 22:40:34','2007-04-08 04:40:34','Name: Dawei\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/07\nDays Worked: Su, M, Tu\nTotal Hours: 5.5\nSchool: Ray\nKind of Work: website project\n\nThis week Ray school was enjoying its spring break, I have been working on some of the code cleaning I mentioned in the last report. I\'ve finished the major cleanings on every pages. Also, Google Map was very kind to introduce its new features in the past week that allow me to create <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;z=15&amp;om=1&amp;msid=112382489245552329217.00000111c41fe48916ccd&amp;msa=0\">Ray boundaries</a> without using Google Earth. That\'s about all.\nHopefully, Ms. Sheridan and I will meet next week and fill up the rest of the unfinished content. It\'s almost ready!','Ray Website Week 11','','publish','open','closed','','ray-website-week-11','','','2007-04-07 22:40:34','2007-04-08 04:40:34','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/07/ray-website-week-11/',0,'post','',1),(201,2,'2007-05-09 09:26:00','2007-05-09 15:26:00','\n<p class=\"main\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h1> Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/04/07</h1>\n<em><strong>[i.e., four? weeks back]</strong></em>\n<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Fermi: tuesday 3:30, thursday 2:00, Friday 3:00, total 8:30</li>\n	<li>Sexton: Tuesday 0:15, Wednesday x:xx</li>\n	<li>Till</li>\n	<li>Wadsworth</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn; Monday 90 min</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\n<strong>Ay, too late now to try to recapture this part of the reporting.  However, not much has advanced on any of these in a while anyway. :(   </strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>Ay, too late now to try to recapture this part of the reporting.    </strong>\n\n<strong> Computers</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li> Wednesday 4/11 -- Went with Randy Landsberg to Kersten Physics teaching center building to meet with Kurt and look at some older recyclable Dells.  Brought one back -- subsequently we will handle for a school and Office of spec Programs.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Fermi</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday, with Sanjaya, for 3:30.</li>\n	<li>Connected  lab printer, by its ethernet interface.  It already had a suitable static IP address, and  some of the computers have that printer installed already, with that address correct in the port settings.</li>\n	<li>The assistive software for 207 needs registration keys and/or installation media.</li>\n	<li>Thursday 4/12, for 2:00.  Looked for that MAGic and SHARK software, found original box but no CDROM in lab desk drawer.  Did misc fixup in lab.  A class came in -- one of the first to use the labs.</li>\n	<li>Friday 4/13, with Shaz and Pierre, for about 3:00.  Before the Prof Dev meeting we completed printer setups for all of lab.  When they showed up from their internal meetings for our segment, Shaz gave them a very good talk about lab use and an intro to projects.  We circulated a couple sign-up sheets for classroom computer fixup, interest in blogs, and help with CPS logins.</li>\n	<li><strong>The school administration was informed their startup with IMPACT would be deferred one week, to Monday April 23, instead of Monday April 16 along with most of  Area 15.</strong> <strong> </strong>Hence we treated the computer fixup list and CPS-password list as something to be dealt with over the course of the following week, not necessarily needed for Monday. (It turned out the deferment was cancelled and Fermi was expected to start IMPACT on the sooner Monday.)</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fiske</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Wednesday 4/11, Fiske student work exhibited at Little Black Pearl workshop, in a project originating with the Oriental Institute Museum and implemented with the participation of CUIP.  Good going, Erik!</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday for 0:45, by request from Linda Sudduth.  We re-enabled student printing to the Dell b/w printer in 513, her lab in the primary building.  The printer is wired into computer #2 and shared from there, and  was already in the LBP  script.  What we did previously to block student printing was to define access for different groups via the Security tab on the printer driver panel on the hosting computer.   Today we put back  into that list the GG-4740-Students group.</li>\n	<li>Passed along to our NSPs by email a computer-checkup request. Erin indicated she will look into it on wednesday.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Wadsworth</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Thurs, 4/12, for 2:30.  With Russ and Sharon, worked in new lab on first floor, mostly setting printer entries.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Monday  4/9, for 90 mins.  Sasha and I came by to talk with Carisa about placing him at WCS, but the timing was off: even though we gt to see much of a Dell TechKnow lesson, she had to keep her focus on the students and the lesson, and wasn\'t able to confer with us. Probably Sasha can work there in non-TechKnow capacity on his Fridays; this Friday is not well suited, so we shouldreturn on Apr 20.</li>\n	<li>I came by on  ___  to look into a couple lingering setup/fixup/followup  matters.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong>\n\n(Trying from memory..)  To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow creeps in this petty pace to the last syllable of recorded time.  And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.  Out, out, brief candle!  Life\'s but a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.  It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.\n\nChecking with sources ...\nHey, not too bad!  I missed out \"walking shadow\" but nothing else big.','Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow','','publish','open','closed','','tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow','','','2007-05-09 09:26:00','2007-05-09 15:26:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/09/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow/',0,'post','',0),(202,8,'2007-04-14 22:58:06','2007-04-15 04:58:06','Your Name: Erin\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/13\n\nDay(s) worked or described: W \n\nTotal hours for week: 2.5\n\nThe School: Till\n\nKind of Work: Tech for Project, Helping Teacher\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Mrs. Moyenda approached me about a networking issue in room 405. It turns out the project Mrs. Sudduth had asked for a CUIPer on was basically fixing this same problem in several rooms, so I deferred the issue to Jimmy because I have very limited experience resolving network issues.\n\nI checked on some old projects with Mrs. Jacobson-- she has the after-school group working on their letters to Blue Balliet. It seems that she has the Deep Freeze problem re: this project sorted out to her liking. \n\nI edited the Blix template to fix some little errors it was giving before and to make it easier for the students to read-- I\'d gotten lots of complaints from them that the font was too small. ','Returning to Till','','publish','open','closed','','returning-to-till','','','2007-04-14 22:58:06','2007-04-15 04:58:06','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/14/returning-to-till/',0,'post','',0),(203,10,'2007-04-13 13:15:11','2007-04-13 19:15:11','Bryan Duff\nDays worked: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 8 hours\nRay School\nTech General\n\nThis week we took care of computer 27 in the lab, so it\'s running.\n\nWe found an extra color printer before spring break and that\'s now up and running in the lab.  It\'s also part of the ray-srv01 printing script so all lab computers can access it.\n\nThe server backups went along fine over break.\n\nMr. Jimenez\'s weblog project is going along really well.  I believe he was giving a presentation of it yesterday.  Ms. Cobb is ordering him a few more spanish keyboards.  \n\nAll of the old computers/keyboards/monitors/mice/printers/etc that have collected outside of the lab have now been successfully inventoried.  CPS will be recycling them shortly.\n\nMs. Lancaster\'s computer is still not fixed, despite multiple trips out here by Dell.  They were supposed to have come by yesterday.  They\'ve replaced the hard drive and parts of the system.  I believe they were supposed to repalce the motherboard.  Even still, the computer now gives an initial error regarding the lack of a fan.  If you press 1 (to continue), the bootup advances, only until the initial error screen appears: Windows cannot start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32...etc...\n\nMs. Lancaster\'s files are still backed up both on the external drive and on another computer in her room.  Hopefully it\'s just a matter of time until things can be resolved!\n\n','Ray Week 3','','publish','open','closed','','ray-week-3','','','2007-04-13 13:15:11','2007-04-13 19:15:11','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/13/ray-week-3/',0,'post','',0),(204,28,'2007-04-13 14:11:47','2007-04-13 20:11:47','Melissa Weihmayer\nMurray Language Academy\n4/8-4/13\n2 hours Wed, 2 hours Friday\nTech Assistant\n\nThis week we wrapped up the two week printer-installation process by installing drivers into the student computers around the school. I am now looking into new projects for the kids. With the fourth graders, we will be making poetry slide shows using Audacity, internet images, and Windows Movie Maker. I made a spiffy example slide show with The Road Not Taken (the most difficult part was finding free images with solid resolution online). Next week I\'ll make an example of an advertisement using the same programs for a third grader project.','Murray Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-6-2','','','2007-04-13 14:11:47','2007-04-13 20:11:47','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/13/murray-week-6-2/',0,'post','',0),(205,12,'2007-04-13 18:11:41','2007-04-14 00:11:41','Chris Furuya\nFuller\nThird Week\nMW\n\nMonday: life goes on with much the same, facilitating students in their reading and responding to the blog entries.\nWednesday: Never want to repeat. The teacher didn\'t show up for class, so 45 minutes after school starts, we get a substitute, who doesn\'t have control over the students. This is the downside of coordinating one on-going project... people forget that I don\'t actually have a teaching degree.\nFriday: took the day off, because there wasn\'t school, according to my understanding. I\'m actually second-guessing that now, but too late.','Much the same','','publish','open','closed','','much-the-same','','','2007-04-13 18:11:41','2007-04-14 00:11:41','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/13/much-the-same/',0,'post','',1),(206,26,'2007-04-14 08:56:23','2007-04-14 14:56:23','Name: Dawei\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/14\nDays Worked: Su, Th, F\nTotal Hours: 4.5\nSchool: Ray\nKind of Work: website project\n\nI met with Ms. Sheridan on Friday and uploaded all the changes I made to the website. She seemed to like the visual boundary map a lot. I explained to her that the nasty codes resulted from copy &amp; pasting directly into Dreamweaver and can be prevented by just retyping them directly into Dreamweaver or copy &amp; pasting into notepad first, then transferring them into Dreamweaver. We also established some naming convention, then changed some the page names (eg. firstandsecond.htm to 1-2.htm). Ms. Sheridan hasn\'t finished filling in the remaining content yet, so that will be her job before the next meeting. As for me, I want to make the calendar and contact pages look prettier, since I was having trouble styling them previously.','Ray Website Week 12','','publish','open','closed','','ray-website-week-12','','','2007-04-14 08:56:23','2007-04-14 14:56:23','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/14/ray-website-week-12/',0,'post','',0),(207,2,'2007-05-10 09:57:21','2007-05-10 15:57:21','\n<p class=\"main\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h1>Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/04/14 thru (Fri) 2007/04/20</h1>\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n[i.e. about 3 weeks back from when finally posted]\n\n[Not a bean!  T<strong>his was IMPACT rollout week for the Elems in our areas!</strong>]\n\n[<strong>Wednesday (4/18) and Thursday (4/19) were report-card days</strong> in the Elementaries and High Schools respectively.  Non-attendance days for students, teachers came in late and stayed late to meet with parents,]\n<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Fermi: Weds. 4:30, Thurs. online 15 min</li>\n	<li>Murray: Thurs 4/19, online 30 min</li>\n	<li>Ray: Weds (4/18): 1:30, Thurs. (4/19): 30 min, Fri (4/20) 1:00, total 3:00</li>\n	<li>Sexton: Thursday 4/19, 3:30</li>\n	<li>Till: Monday (4/16) A.M. 2:00, Monday P.M. 2:30, Tuesday (4/17) 2:30. Total 7:00</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn: Monday  (4/16)  1:45, Fri (4/20) 0:30 , total 2:15</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n\nLet\'s try out the More tag!\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\nNot able to reconstruct at this distance.  Probably no progress on most anyway.\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Unfortunately lost our NSP for WCS.  Staff will fill in, esp. for TechKnow.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>ELVEN initiative virt.host on cuip server.  (Hindsight note: Craig didn\'t get the DNS forwarding going right until May 7.)</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>\n</strong>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Fermi</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Wednesday 4/18.  I visited for general tech classroom purposes.  Learned that Fermi was NOT deferred a week from the IMPACT rollout, but in fact started on it Monday just like the other elementary schools in this area.</li>\n	<li>I dealt with  teacher-desktop computers in several rooms and  recorded  these results in an online  spreadsheet in our Google docs account which Sara had started off the previous week.</li>\n	<li>Separately: later implemented  http://Fermiblogs.cuip.net virtual host for when the TRAs begin working blogs with the teachers here.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Murray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Thursday (4/19). Multi-round email with Joe Mills about ELGG and Second Life, summjer plans,</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Ray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Weds (4/18), Thurs. (4/19): Worked  with  Dawei  and Gabe Sheridan  on the  revised web  site.</li>\n	<li>Friday (4/20): With Mary and Bryan, physically relocated www.ray.cps.k12.il.us server from IDF room in Annex to MDF room in main bldg.   I didn\'t really know until today where the main bldg elevator was!  (And we did use the elevator, to roll the whole apparatus on its cart instead of separating CPU and monitor, etc.)  Plugged into the main switch and after one false start it was working fine.</li>\n	<li>However, the move did not dramatically ease of connection or speed from room 115 (Sheridan\'s classroom)</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Sexton</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Thursday 4/19 for about 3 hrs.  Ms. Jackson, room 124.  Loaded CPS W2K  on her oldercomputer despite low RAM, for the sake of getting it on the network and able to share or use a shared printer.  Set it up as dual-boot so she can still get into the Win98 setup if she ever really needs to.  This setup and the printer-sharing were successful.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Monday  (4/16).   Check-in to see how the IMPACT rollout has gone here.  Some major problems.  See separate emails.</li>\n	<li>Helped Ms L Y Brady  with passwords, both CPS and OneRoom.  Restored the icons to her desktop.</li>\n	<li>Saw Ms. Moyenda  and Ms. Teague  in room next door, power-cycled their shared CBOX switch  and rebooted their computers.</li>\n	<li>Afternoon, checked in with Sudduth.  The IMPACT person may be here but next door.</li>\n	<li>The networking contractor had been here Friday; Linda showed me the work report.  They checked connectivity in the little building; for some rooms (report did not specify) the fiber connection was not good, so they switched to second pair.   This morning we rebooted switch in 407 (Teague) and her computers; the connection in her room and Moyenda was good after that.  BUT this afternoon it was bad in all three rooms that use that CBOX.  [405/7/9,  Moyenda / Teague / White].</li>\n	<li>Since power-cycling the switching equipment in the CBOX fixes things, that may be what needs changing.  Sudduth will call them out again.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Monday  (4/16) . Check-in re IMPACT.  Going okay.</li>\n	<li>Joined  Mr. Hubbard\'s  computer  (front security desk) to INSTR.</li>\n	<li>The IBM from  110 was temporarily swapped with  another machine so that she could do IMPACT. Today I finished working on that IBM (across the hall), starting with network drivers, which in turn allowed it to connect and do remediation etc etc.</li>\n	<li>Fri (4/20) half-hour return visit, to discuss CUIP staffing at WCS.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>(Optional) What\'s been good to read lately?:</strong>\n\nNever been very much into Milan Kundera, but I was so excited by his article in the <em>New Yorker</em> issue in my backlog that I\'m getting to -- about the differences among a national culture (especially for small European nations like Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), language-group cultures or literatures, world literature, and maybe something for a gap he articulates even after giving those layers..  (I was thinking it was back in November but looked and it\'s just January.  There is hope!)  So I\'ve sent away for his forthcoming book of essays which I hope will include this one, plus an early novel of his and one he mentions (<em>Ferdydurcke</em>?) that I ever heard of but plays a role in his argument.\n\nSo I\'d better finish that issue, not only to clip and stash away that essay in case it isn\'t in the collection, but also  to clip and give Erik the rather good article on NFL football.  Actually it\'s a review/survey article on football <em>books, </em>but not too limited chronologically.  (At one time the <em>New Yorker</em> was happy to publish essays simply about baseball itself, but now apparently can tolerate only a football books article, not something simply on the game itself.  But I could be wrong.)','You must leave now take what you need, you think will last.  But whatever you wish to keep, better grab it fast.','','publish','open','closed','','you-must-leave-now-take-what-you-need-you-think-will-last-but-whatever-you-wish-to-keep-better-grab-it-fast','','','2007-05-10 09:57:21','2007-05-10 15:57:21','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/10/you-must-leave-now-take-what-you-need-you-think-will-last-but-whatever-you-wish-to-keep-better-grab-it-fast/',0,'post','',0),(208,23,'2007-04-15 10:06:11','2007-04-15 16:06:11','Name: Yayan\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/15\nDays Worked: M W\nTotal Hours: 3 hrs\nSchool: Shoesmith\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nWorked Monday and Wednesday this week. On Monday I helped with a first grade class as usual; Wednesday was a little more busy. Mr. Rhyne had some problems with a few of the floppy drives on the computers in the lab, and I tried to fix them but it still wouldn\'t work so he has to call Mr. Willis at some point. Then I ran Windows updates on the two computers in the lab that are linked to the printer. I also ran an update on a teacher\'s computer but it took a long time because the machine was slow. Afterwards I helped around with a first grade class.','Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','shoesmith-8','','','2007-04-15 10:06:11','2007-04-15 16:06:11','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/15/shoesmith-8/',0,'post','',0),(209,14,'2007-04-15 18:00:12','2007-04-16 00:00:12','name: Peter Smutko\ndate: april 15, 2007\ndays worked: T, Th, F\ntotal hours: 5\nschool: Fiske\ntype of work: tech general\nnarrative:\nI helped make sure the teacher\'s computers were ready for the impact training by checking that they had working internet and an updated version of IE.  Erik actually left me a message detailing more work than this, but I didn\'t get it in time, and Wilbert just had me checking on the IE.\nI helped with the tech-know after school program, where they were identifying the external parts on the front of the computer\non friday there were no students, but i got a teacher\'s (ms. smith?) printer working\n\nmy regular schedule has changed to become:\ntues: 1:30 - 3\nthurs: 1:30 - 4\nfri: 2 - 3','Fiske','','publish','open','closed','','fiske','','','2007-04-15 18:00:12','2007-04-16 00:00:12','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/15/fiske/',0,'post','',0),(210,30,'2007-04-15 21:10:11','2007-04-16 03:10:11','Louisa Gambrill at Sexton\n\ntuseday, 12:15-2:15;\n\nlooked at Ms. Bryant\'s computer, but couldn\'t fix the CD drive, gathered some info. on laptops, helped out in the lab for a bit.\n\nFriday, 11:00-2:00;\n\nstarted out in the lab checking to make sure all worked fine and connected to the internet.  i did a few minor fixes here.  spent the rest of the day with Mitch installing wireless on Ms. Bryant\'s computer-- tricky, since the CD drive still wasn\'t working.','4/10 & 4/13','','publish','open','closed','','410-413','','','2007-04-15 21:10:11','2007-04-16 03:10:11','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/15/410-413/',0,'post','',0),(211,29,'2007-04-16 03:05:01','2007-04-16 09:05:01','Ariel Marcus\n2007/4/16 - For  last week\nDay(s) worked or described: T\n3 and a half hours\nSchool of Leadership\nTech general\n\nI arrived at Leadership to find out that Mr. Ruffin was not present due to a confusion. There had been a  track meet scheduled for the following day that was moved to Tuesday, and as a coach he had to attend. I continued my work as usual remediating the computers. I also managed to fix one printer which had been unplugged. There were two printers sitting in the teachers room both of which I tried to fix without success. Some of the computers are now ready to be used in a classroom. Finally, I suggested to a Spanish teacher that I would like to help her on a project of some kind, especially since I am starting to take Spanish classes in the college once again.\n\n<strong>My regular schedule at this school has changed, to become: Tuesdays from 12:30 - 4 pm.</strong>','School of Leadership Week 4','','publish','open','closed','','school-of-leadership-week-4','','','2007-04-16 03:05:01','2007-04-16 09:05:01','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/16/school-of-leadership-week-4/',0,'post','',0),(212,17,'2007-04-18 10:42:23','2007-04-18 16:42:23','Your Name:  Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/18\n\nWeek 1\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 5\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative:  Again worked mainly at the Child Parent Center on the Accreditation stuff then went back to Woodson and upgraded a computer from Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro.','Woodson Spring Quarter Week 1 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-spring-quarter-week-1-report','','','2007-04-18 10:42:23','2007-04-18 16:42:23','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/18/woodson-spring-quarter-week-1-report/',0,'post','',0),(213,17,'2007-04-18 10:43:46','2007-04-18 16:43:46','Your Name:  LI An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/18\n\nWeek 2\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 0\n\nThe School:  Woodson\n\nKind of Work:\n\nMain Report or Narrative:  No work due to CPS spring vacation.','Woodson Spring Quarter Week 2 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-spring-quarter-week-2-report','','','2007-04-18 10:43:46','2007-04-18 16:43:46','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/18/woodson-spring-quarter-week-2-report/',0,'post','',0),(214,17,'2007-04-18 10:46:34','2007-04-18 16:46:34','Your Name:  Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/18\n\nWeek 3\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 5\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech General\n\nMain Report or Narrative:  Worked on the accreditation stuff at Child Parent Center, made a banner for them for \"Young Children Week\" in Publisher, printed some pictures that Mrs. Williams requested, then went back to Woodson and upgraded 2 more computers from Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro.','Woodson Spring Quarter Week 3 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-spring-quarter-week-3-report','','','2007-04-18 10:46:34','2007-04-18 16:46:34','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/18/woodson-spring-quarter-week-3-report/',0,'post','',0),(215,7,'2007-04-19 10:22:41','2007-04-19 16:22:41','Your Name: Xavier Hernandez\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/19\n\nweek of 2007/04/13\n\nDay(s) worked or described: T W TH\n\nTotal hours for week: 6\n\nThe School: Murray\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Narrative:\n\nLast week was my first week back at Murray since we went on Spring break. Murray got new b&amp;w printers for the classrooms so I went around installing the new printers on the student computers.  Joe had me install 2 programs on the computers in 216, Gimpshop and a freeware typing program. There was one more thing but I can\'t remember what it was.  Joe said the 204 lab, with the older computers, is going to get 15 new Dells in the next couple of weeks. Apparently having most of the computers in the running, even if some of them are slow, convinced the principal the lab was worth keeping around. Joe and many of the teachers at the school are excited about it since they really want to use the lab exclusively for language learning.','Murray Week 3','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-3-2','','','2007-04-19 10:22:41','2007-04-19 16:22:41','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/19/murray-week-3-2/',0,'post','',0),(216,29,'2007-04-20 14:25:39','2007-04-20 20:25:39','Ariel Marcus\n2007/4/20\nDay(s) worked or described: T\n3 and a half hours\nSchool of Leadership\nTech general\n\nOnce again, I could not find Mr. Ruffin, although I continued on the computers without him. There are now 3-4 functioning computers which have been remediated. After meeting with Russ and creating s good template computer, I was wondering if it would be possible to  use Norton Ghost to  fix all of the other computers with severe software problems. Not only would this save me the time of individual fixing the same problems on each computer, it would also circumvent any problems I would otherwise be unable to fix. As well, ghosting a disk image onto every computer would insure that each computer was functioning well, as the template could be chosen carefully. I also personally own a large external hard drive (~250 GB) that could be used to store the disk image. Russ and Mitch, tell me what you think of this idea. Also, Russ, the teacher whose computer is in the teacher\'s room, I think her name is Mrs. Harris, would like her computer to only allow her personal access (as well as techco). She thought that she had told you this explicitly and seemed upset that other teachers were now able to login to her computer. Finally, if possible I would like to somehow insure that Mr. Ruffin will be at Leadership when I work next week, since I think that he was interested in placing some of the computers in teacher\'s rooms and I would really like to help facilitate that.','School of Leadership Week 5','','publish','open','closed','','school-of-leadership-week-5','','','2007-04-20 14:25:39','2007-04-20 20:25:39','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/20/school-of-leadership-week-5/',0,'post','',1),(217,28,'2007-04-20 14:15:02','2007-04-20 20:15:02','Melissa Weihmayer\nMurray Language Academy\n4/15-4/20\n2 hours Monday, 2 hours Wed, 2 hours Friday\nTech Assistant\n\nThis week began with the second installment of our Audacity/MovieMaker project. I was creating the example/template for the kids, this time moving on from poetry to advertisements geared towards the 3rd graders, I believe. First of all, I would just like to say that I would have LOVED to be a third grader doing a project like this. In fact, I loved being a 13th grader doing this project. I advertised sunglasses and recorded my voice and superimposed it with pictures. Pretty sweet. The rest of the week was a bit tedious in comparison, as I discovered the wrath of the Chicago Public School beaurocratic system. I had to inventory the 27 seemingly unused computers in the old language lab, recording just about everything one would ever want to know (and far beyond) for each monitor and computer. Joe Mills is trying to distribute the older computers to other schools in the area since Dell is donating more computers to Murray, meaning that they need all this ridiculous information to keep tabs, I presume. In the meantime, it gives me experience making Excell data charts, which is a good thing to get used to. I would like to spend more time with the kids in the lab, as i am beginning to make some great friends and they seem to like having me around (they especially like the one-on-one attention), so I should be doing more of that next week. Happy Friday.','Murray Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-6-3','','','2007-04-20 14:15:02','2007-04-20 20:15:02','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/20/murray-week-6-3/',0,'post','',0),(218,25,'2007-04-20 15:56:49','2007-04-20 21:56:49','Name: Allison\nToday’s Date: 4/20/07\nDays worked or described:W, FR\nTotal Hours worked for week: 4 1/2\nKind of work: updating, maitenance\nMain Report or Narrative:\nBack in the photography lab. Worked after school on wednesday and friday; have been working to simply update the computers, which takes a while, cuz everything was really out of date. getting them ready to go online, which i should be able to do next week, hopefully. Finishing updating them all today, so I think, unless I am needed elsewhere, next week will be the week when I get them all online: shouldn\'t be too much of a problem, not really sure why it hasn\'t happened before, but I guess it was out of choice, not because technical difficulties, as was asserted before.','Kenwood and the Photo lab','','publish','open','closed','','kenwood-and-the-photo-lab','','','2007-04-20 15:56:49','2007-04-20 21:56:49','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/20/kenwood-and-the-photo-lab/',0,'post','',0),(219,24,'2007-04-21 16:17:11','2007-04-21 22:17:11','Name: Ariel Hafftka\nThe School: Entrepreneurship\nToday’s Date: Apr 21, 2007\nDays described Tue Apr 17, Fri Apr 20\nMain report/narrative:\n\nRecently I worked with Mr. Steward and the Leadership Team at Entrepreneurship on the Tech 2007 project.  Last Tuesday we met and created a survey to gather information from teachers and distributed them.  I collected the surveys on Friday, and Mr. Steward is planning to send the survey data to the students so they can come prepared with ideas for an article about technology use at Entrepreneurship for our next meeting Tuesday, Apr 24, 2pm.\n\n\nLast Friday I fixed Steve\'s, Mr. Steward\'s and Ms. Monroe\'s printer setups and showed Ms. Monroe how to remove unwanted desktop images from her computer.  I spoke with Mr. Malva about perhaps attending his Spanish class and helping students with vocabulary.\n','Project Surveys','','publish','open','closed','','project-surveys','','','2007-04-21 16:17:11','2007-04-21 22:17:11','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/21/project-surveys/',0,'post','',0),(220,30,'2007-04-23 13:58:54','2007-04-23 19:58:54','Tuesday the 17th, 12:20-2:30\n\nStarted out in the lab, most everything is working well, except for computer 19.  Computer 11 was missing a mouse, but I found one and plugged it in, works fine. Then I took another look at Ms. Bryant\'s computer, CD drive still not working, (needs to be reinstalled?) but I connected it the domain.  Her computer has start-up errors when asked to reboot; as soon as windows is about to open it jumps back to original power-on screen, and keeps looping.  I managed to get around this by manually turning off the computer, waiting a bit, then trying again.\n\nFriday the 20th, 11:00-2:00\n\nStarted in the lab again, where Ms. Baca (room 101) was meeting with an IMPACT tec. only two of Ms Baca\'s four students are showing up in her IMPATC grade book.  This problem will probably get solved on the IMPACT end of things.  Then I helped Ms Baca with her templates, (e-mailed her a copy of the blank template) she wants to meet with me again next Tuesday.  Ms Madden\'s laptop says that it can\'t find a wireless signal, but it connects to the internet just fine.  Both of Ms. Jackson’s computers are printing just fine, and she is very happy with them.','Louisa, 4/17 & 4/20','','publish','open','closed','','louisa-417-420','','','2007-04-23 13:58:54','2007-04-23 19:58:54','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/23/louisa-417-420/',0,'post','',1),(221,16,'2007-04-23 18:22:07','2007-04-24 00:22:07','Your Name:  James Salvatore\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/mm/dd\n\n[Week or date reporting about, if not most recent week: 2007/04/23]\n\nDay(s) worked or described: T Θ\n\nTotal hours for week: --\n\nThe School:  Till.\n\nKind of Work: Tech general.\n\nMain Report or Narrative:  Ah, sorry for the lack of reporting for -- well, many weeks.  But I\'ll try to sum up exactly what I\'ve been doing:\n\n- I\'ve generally been going around doing routine maintenance on the computers in the big and little buildings of Till.  \n\n-I began work in the library, and with the help of Mitch, we were able to restore, I think, 8 of the 9 machines which were previously not working or were working too slowly.  I updated most of them with windows 2k if they did not already have them installed.\n\n-Mr. Z had three computers -- I was only able to fix one.  One needs a hard drive, and one will not turn on for some reason.  I was unable to fix the problem with the computer that would not turn on, and I haven\'t gotten around to the hard drive issue yet.  \n\n-Numerous computers in the little till needed updating and general tweaking to go faster -- some of them were extremely slow and sometimes were missing mice and keyboards.  I did the best I could to distribute what resources I was able to get to these computers.\n\n-There were several rooms in Big Till which needed power cords and printer cables.  These were taken from surplus in the library.\n\n-Mitch showed me lots about perl scripting and other general neat things, and we worked on [well, mitch worked on -- I tried to learn it] a script for updating the blogs for the school.\n\n-I updated the Adobe Flash on [nearly?] all the computers at little till and was able to troubleshoot some problems dealing with the incompatibility of .docx\'s and Word 2003 by downloading a converter for some of the teachers who requested it.\n\n-Many printers were fixed  networked.\n\nI think that\'s all that happened in the last few weeks.  and I\'ll be more consistent in my weekly reporting from now on.  sorry \'bout that!\n','Till Weeks Update.','','publish','open','closed','','till-weeks-update','','','2007-04-23 18:22:07','2007-04-24 00:22:07','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/23/till-weeks-update/',0,'post','',0),(222,2,'2007-05-11 02:27:27','2007-05-11 08:27:27','\n<p class=\"main\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h1> Staff (Mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of<strong>  (Sat) 2007/04/21 – (Fri) 2007/04/27</strong></h1>\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n. [i.e. about two weeks back from when finally posted]\n<h1></h1>\n[I took day off on Friday, April 27]\n\n[Plus sick day on Thurs, April 26]\n<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Fermi, Tues 4/24 = 2:30, weds 4/25 = 3:00, total = 5:30</li>\n	<li>Leadership, Tues 4/24 = 2:15</li>\n	<li>Murray email advice Tuesday 4/24 = 0:20, onsite weds 4/25 = 1:20, total = 1:40</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn: Monday 4/23 = 2:00, Tues 4/24 = 2:00, total 4:00</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\nCan\'t reconstruct from this distance.  But likely not much progress on any of these plans.  Not to say they aren\'t important, just that we lack a good system for balancing priorities.\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Summer Classes prep</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Tech EXPO prep</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Planning with Shaz and Sara for the web site space and access.  MLK-CPHS students will be helping out.</li>\n	<li>Copied last year\'s project registration form, checked and  emptied/updated data file.  Sara updated page visuals.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Email to techcos, relaying the notices from schoolname-adm01 site and commenting thereon.  The issues were:\n<ul>\n	<li> Windows Server 2003 servers, Service Pack 2 update</li>\n	<li> Passwords will be changed on some special accounts</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> eCUIP</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>One of the rehab computers was compromised before updates and onboard firewall/antivirus were completed, so NetSec turned off the port for the room.  Shaz and Russ dealt with them nicely.  Lucky for me,  I didn\'t read the emails until late on Friday, so didn\'t need to wrestle with whether to get up from my sickbed and go in to snivel around.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li> Hey, who ever knows??</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Personal Professional-Development Activities</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Not darn likely is it?</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>When we recommend purchase of a portable HDD for Leadership (for Ghosting and similar purposes), the idea is floated of sharing expense/uses with ENTR.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fermi</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday 4/24 = 2:30. Reviewed  computer disposition  (not disposal!) plan with principal Dr. Sanders, moved  some computers among different rooms on that basis.   Also some other followups from our group previous notes.  Details in email.</li>\n	<li>Students in line in the hallway were offering to help carry the computers around.  I should have arranged for that! but could tell their teachers needed to keep them in focus.  Keeping my sweater-jacket on was useful (though overheated) as it was easy to tuck a keyboard here and a mouse there ...</li>\n	<li>The spot in the teachers\' lounge seemed to have no electric power to those specific plugs.  The engineer is checking into it.</li>\n	<li>Wednesday 4/25 followups = 3:30.  Teacher\'s lounge now okay.  Finished with Ms Meyers 116.  Absurd printer problems for Ms. Graham 216.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fiske</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>We were unable to  pull data from Mrs Cobbs\'s laptop HD, despite using 2.5-inch external enclosure.</li>\n	<li>See  my general note to techcos  about  OTS  remote update of Windows 2003 Servers to Service Pack 2, and possible space problems.  Fiske \'s  older server  needs to be checked for this!</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday  with  Russ and Ariel  -- planned for  Ghost  imaging  of  out-of-storage computers.  See  Ariel\'s  report last week and my replying comment,   <a href=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/20/school-of-leadership-week-5/\">http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/20/school-of-leadership-week-5/</a></li>\n	<li>Will continue next Tuesday.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Murray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>tuesda4 4/24  email =0:20,  weds. 4/25 onsite = 1:20.  Same topic continuing both days, space on C: partition of murray-srv02, whch is their webserver.</li>\n	<li> We ended up deleting some old (2004) patch-rollback compressed folders, freeing 295 MB.  Also discussed/outlined steps needed to move Website files to another drive, but didn\'t carry that out today.  Joe will probably do that later this week.  That will open up another 250 MB approx.</li>\n	<li>Got mail from Joe saying he did move the web server files to another partition, no evident problems, and frreeing up considerable space on C:.  The Veritas backup ran successfully after that.  I should have mentioned that Veritas failure reports were the original problem, which we saw as linked to the fll system partition!</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Ray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Prep for new web site continues apace.  email advice with Gabe Sheridan.</li>\n	<li>Set \"official\" debut date of May 1.  [Retrospective  comment:  Gabe and Dawei came through with the completed site, on time and looking good!]</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Monday  4/23 afterschool TechKnow.  The students have reached the dis-assembly/re-assembly exercises.  It takes considerable adult attention to keep them on track and keep them careful with their computers.</li>\n	<li>Tuesday 4/24. Sara  also came to the TechKnow session, and was a big help.</li>\n	<li>When the students re-assemble their computers, they have been taking them up to a station wth keyboard and monitor, and check that it goes through the POST at least.    As of Tuesday, they added into the routine a visit to the \"F2\"  Setup screen, which is useful.  It shows if the HDD or CDROM, for instance, is not being detected; and this gives the student team some help in what connections to recheck.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong>(Optional) What’s playing now?:</strong>\n\nMonday nothing, Tuesday nothing\nWednesday and Thursday nothing\nFriday for a change a little more nothing\nSaturday once more nothing.\n\nSunday nothing, Monday nothing\nTuesday and Wednesday nothing\nThursday for a change a little more nothing\nFriday once more nothing.\n\n[Yiddish verse ...]\n\nLunes nada, martes nada\nMiercoles y jueves nada\nViernes por cambio poco mas nada\nSabado otra vez nada\n\nNada nada, nada nada,\nNananananana nada\n\nJanuary nothing, February nothing\nMarch and April nothing\nMay and June a lot more nothing\nJuu-uu-llli-y nothing\n\nTwenty-nine nothing, thirty-two nothing\nThirty-nine forty-five nothing\nNineteen sixty-five a whole lot of nothing\nNineteen sixty-six nothing.\n\nReading nothing, writing nothing\nEven arithmetic nothing!\nGeography, philosophy, history nothing\nSocial Anthropology -- hakkalokka nothing\n\nOh, <em>Village Voice</em> nothing, <em>New Yorker</em> nothing\n<em>Sing Out</em> and <em>Folkways</em> nothing\nHarry Smith and Allen Ginsberg\nNothing nothing nothing\n\nPoetry nothing, music nothing\nPainting and dancing nothing\nThe world\'s great books a great set of nothing\nAhhty and fahhty nothing\n\nF___ing nothing, s___ing nothing\nFlesh and sex nothing\nChurch and Times Square all a lot of nothing\nNothing nothing nothing\n\nStevenson nothing, Humphrey nothing\nAverell Harriman nothing\nJohn Stuart Mi-ill nihil nihil\nFranklin Delano Nothing\n\nKarl Marx nothing, Engels nothing\nBakunin &amp; Kropotkin nyothing\nLeon Trotsky lots of nothing\nStalin less! than nothing\n\nNothing nothing, nothing nothing\nA whole lot of whole lotta nothing\nNothing lots and lots of nothing\nNothing nothing nothing nothing\n\nNothing-nothing-nothing\nNothing!\nNothing nothing nothing!\n[rep. ad libitum]\n\nLots of it\nNothing -- nothing -- nothing\nNot a god-damned thing','\"The Italian Navigator has reached the New World\"','','publish','open','closed','','the-italian-navigator-has-reached-the-new-world','','','2007-05-11 02:27:27','2007-05-11 08:27:27','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/11/the-italian-navigator-has-reached-the-new-world/',0,'post','',0),(223,10,'2007-04-24 07:34:25','2007-04-24 13:34:25','Bryan Duff\nRay Elementary\nTuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8 hours\nTech general\n\nThis week was mainly spent gathering old machines from around the school so they could be recycled.  Hopefully all the teachers who had computers they were no longer using notified Ms. Cobb.  We also cleared out a lot of the older supplies (like old power cords, broken printers, etc) from the IDF (518, next to the lab).  In fact, on Friday Mitch stopped by and moved the web-server from the IDF to the MDF on the second floor.  Mitch wanted to have a centralized location for all the servers.  This made a lot of sense to me, too.\n\nAnyway, a lot of the machines recycled were the ones donated last spring.  It was nice that at least some use was made of them and I believe the teachers did all they could with each computer.  At the same time it was odd for me to be putting them in and taking them out within a year. \n\nFor the record, anything left in the IDF works.  We cleared out everything that was faulty and only left working parts (mainly monitors, power cords, and printers).\n\nI checked on the Spanish blog again and it seems to be running itself by now.  Things are looking good!\n\n','Ray Week 4','','publish','open','closed','','ray-week-4','','','2007-04-24 07:34:25','2007-04-24 13:34:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/24/ray-week-4/',0,'post','',0),(224,23,'2007-04-24 20:27:00','2007-04-25 02:27:00','Name: Yayan\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/24\nDays Worked: M F\nTotal Hours: 3 hrs\nSchool: Shoesmith\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nWe updated computers in the labs on Monday, since almost all of them were running very outdated Internet Explorers and the automatic Windows updates hadn\'t been run in a while. I ran an update on Ms. Curtin\'s computer in her classroom since it wasn\'t running too well. There were a few printer problems on Friday, one in Mr. Rhyne\'s room and then in Ms. Curtin\'s room. I managed to get Mr. Rhyne\'s printer working for the time being, but I couldn\'t get Ms. Curtin\'s to work because the computer wouldn\'t let me log in as an administrator.','Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','shoesmith-9','','','2007-04-24 20:27:00','2007-04-25 02:27:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/24/shoesmith-9/',0,'post','',0),(225,8,'2007-04-29 13:05:16','2007-04-29 19:05:16','Your Name: Erin\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/29\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W F\n\nTotal hours for week: 8.5\n\nThe School: Till\n\nKind of Work: Tech for Project, Helping Teacher\n\nMain Report or Narrative: \nShaz directed me to a nifty WP plugin, podPress, which has streamlined the <a href=\"http://blogs.cuip.net/BookPreviews\">Book Previews</a> project immensely. I determined that podPress doesn\'t work with .wav files, so I spent some time with Audacity cleaning up the old .wav files and converting them to mp3s, and converted every post (except one, which was missing a file) into a nice pod-cast style. \n\nMrs. Jacobson wasn\'t in the library on Wednesday, so I did some odds and ends work with other teachers. Mrs. Smith needed help with some AV equipment (not exactly computer tech work, but I find that the same principle of \"first make sure it\'s plugged in, then make sure the power\'s on\" is just as applicable to VCRs as computers), and Mrs. Johnson needed a bit of help with Google imaging. \n\nWhen I made my new work schedule, I hadn\'t realized that little Till building needs to be empty by 3:15 on Fridays, so I decided to cancel for the day rather than go in for 45 minutes, and I finished the podcast project from home to make up the hours. \n\nSince I can\'t go in to Till on Fridays, I\'ve changed my schedule to be Monday/Wednesday from 2-5:30. \n\nTo work on next week: fix the remaining post on the BP project, sort out the mess of audio files that students have left on Mrs. Jacobson\'s computer, check in with Mrs. White about her ABC project.','Goings on at Till','','publish','open','closed','','goings-on-at-till','','','2007-04-29 13:05:16','2007-04-29 19:05:16','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/29/goings-on-at-till/',0,'post','',0),(226,17,'2007-04-27 12:55:02','2007-04-27 18:55:02','Your Name: Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/27\n\nWeek 4\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 5\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech General\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Worked on the accreditation stuff at Child Parent Center, printed some pictures out for CPC.','Woodson Spring Quarter Week 4 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-spring-quarter-week-3-report-2','','','2007-04-27 12:55:02','2007-04-27 18:55:02','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/27/woodson-spring-quarter-week-3-report-2/',0,'post','',0),(227,17,'2007-04-27 12:57:32','2007-04-27 18:57:32','Your Name: Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/27\n\nWeek 5\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 5\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech General\n\nMain Report or Narrative: More accreditation stuff at Child Parent Center, taught several teaching assistants how to use flash media card reader.','Woodson Spring Quarter Week 5 Report','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-spring-quarter-week-5-report','','','2007-04-27 12:57:32','2007-04-27 18:57:32','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/27/woodson-spring-quarter-week-5-report/',0,'post','',0),(228,10,'2007-05-10 07:25:55','2007-05-10 13:25:55','Ms. Lancaster finally got her new computer.  So, that\'s a relief.  It seems to be all set up with any program she needs (including Office, AR, and Earobics.)  I added all of the files we backed up from her old computer and it seems to be working.\n\nMr. Jimenez and I added four new conversations today to the weblog. He\'ll be adding pictures to the site this weekend.  It\'s looking really good.\n\nMs. Frieswyk was having troubles with IMPACT.  Ms. Cobb, Erik, and I cleaned up the hard drive using all of the Windows utilities.\n\nMs. Fragner had some files saved on the network that she needed to move to a local folder, so I demonstrated that to her.  It seems like most, if not all, the teachers have gotten the notice about keeping their files off the school5560 network folder.\n\nOther than that, not a whole lot of other notable news other than just the usual maintenance.\n\nBest,\n\nBryan','Ray Week 5','','publish','open','closed','','ray-week-5-2','','','2007-05-10 07:25:55','2007-05-10 13:25:55','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/10/ray-week-5-2/',0,'post','',0),(229,25,'2007-04-27 16:36:39','2007-04-27 22:36:39','Name: Allison\nToday’s Date: 4/27/07\nDays worked or described:Th, FR\nTotal Hours worked for week: 5\nKind of work: maitenance\nMain Report or Narrative:\nAs I wrote last week, I had thought that I would get the computers online this week, but that didn\'t happen. They told me they were getting scratch disk error messages on some of the computers, so i worked on that - the scratch disk preferences were somewhat ... inconsistant... from computer to computer, from user to user, so I applied one system to the lab. That won\'t solve all the scratch disk problems, though, cuz they just don\'t have the space that they want/need. I guess some more external drives will be purchased to help with that, but for the time being it\'s a major problem, and one they seem unwilling to deal with. (they want more space, but don\'t want to delete anything...I\'m trying to make the point that you can\'t have your cake and eat it to, and hopefully one of these days it\'ll get through...) so I looked around for old temp files that are no longer needed, and got rid of those, multiple copies of files, etc...clearing up some space. There\'s still a space problem though, and I can\'t solve it completely cuz I don\'t have the authority to just go deleting stuff (though I have a suspicion I could delete a whole bunch of old files and nobody would notice they were missing...but I\'m not going to try...). They were also having some permissions problems on some, so i did permissions repair as well. Maybe next week I\'ll get them all online. Assuming no new problems come up.','Kenwood and the Photo Lab, cont.','','publish','open','closed','','kenwood-and-the-photo-lab-cont','','','2007-04-27 16:36:39','2007-04-27 22:36:39','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/27/kenwood-and-the-photo-lab-cont/',0,'post','',1),(230,23,'2007-04-27 22:11:14','2007-04-28 04:11:14','Name: Yayan\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/27\nDays Worked: M F\nTotal Hours: 3 hrs\nSchool: Shoesmith\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMr. Rhyne had more printer problems on Monday; the printer doesn\'t seem to work until after 11AM, when it usually starts printing normally again. I\'m couldn\'t figure out why it was doing this, the settings all seemed fine. I helped around as usual with the 1st graders that came in for their computer class. Friday I updated a couple of computers in Ms. Henderson\'s room; both the computers were incredibly slow, especially one that took about 20 minutes just to initialize the update. On the other computer I managed to run automatic updates and update her Internet Explorer browser to 6.0. Mr. Rhyne still had printer problems, but I was mostly in Ms. Henderson\'s room. The internet is down only in the computer lab because of electricity problems.','Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','shoesmith-10','','','2007-04-27 22:11:14','2007-04-28 04:11:14','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/27/shoesmith-10/',0,'post','',0),(242,10,'2007-05-09 10:15:14','2007-05-09 16:15:14','Not much new at Ray.  Ms. Mcivor needed some help moving some files off of the network.  Hopefully she\'s the last teacher to still be saving in the school5560 shared folder.\n\nAlso, Ms. Cobb and I tried for a while to get into the iMac on the lab.  It\'s password protected, and Ms. Cobb lost the password for it.  We\'re actually missing the restore cds, but we\'ve been told there were other ways of getting around it.  If anyone was aware of how to do so, we\'d really appreciate it!\n\n','Ray Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','ray-week-6-2','','','2007-05-09 10:15:14','2007-05-09 16:15:14','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/09/ray-week-6-2/',0,'post','',0),(231,26,'2007-04-28 09:15:27','2007-04-28 15:15:27','Name: Dawei\nToday’s Date: 2007/04/28\nDays Worked: Su, M, Tu\nTotal Hours: 3.5\nSchool: Ray\nKind of Work: website project\n\nNothing much happened last week due to my busy schedule at school. But this week, I used some of my free time to finish styling the calendar and contact pages. Since I couldn\'t meet Ms. Sheridan this week, with the only possible time being from 7:30am - 8:30am on Friday, I sent her all the revised files through email. It seemed that she\'s having a little trouble uploading them. She also mentioned about having difficulty cropping/resizing images for the website\'s header. I couldn\'t help her because I never used Paint Shop Pro. Everything else is pretty much done. I can\'t wait to launch it officially on Monday.','Ray Website Week 14','','publish','open','closed','','ray-website-week-14','','','2007-04-28 09:15:27','2007-04-28 15:15:27','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/28/ray-website-week-14/',0,'post','',0),(232,22,'2007-04-29 19:44:14','2007-04-30 01:44:14','I returned to work during first week but hit a major snag for second, third, and part of fourth week. My workload increased far beyond what I had expected and I had to work on a major RSO project as well. These two things combined conspired to successfully keep me from work.\n\nThe current outlook is good. So far, I\'ve only been doing minor patches to systems, updating search engine settings, and general maintenance work. I will most likely begin a floor-by-floor update of all the Windows based PCs starting next week.','Last Four Weeks Summary','','publish','open','closed','','last-four-weeks-summary','','','2007-04-29 19:44:14','2007-04-30 01:44:14','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/29/last-four-weeks-summary/',0,'post','',0),(233,2,'2007-05-17 12:39:32','2007-05-17 18:39:32','\n<p class=\"main\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h1> Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/04/27 – (Fri) 2007/05/04</h1>\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n[I.e., about two weeks ago.]\n\nQ.  Didn\'t you just the other day post a report which was for \"two weeks ago\"?\nA. Yes, but a few days ago was part of last week.   So everything is a week older; much like racehorses that age by a year on New Year\'s Day.\n<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>\n[Note: Thursday morning was CUIP Principals Retreat]\n\n[Note: Tuesday was a student half-day in the schools, with professional development in the afternoon]\n<ol>\n	<li>Leadership — Tuesday(5/1) 3:30</li>\n	<li>Ray — email Saturday (4/28) 0:20; online to Ray server Sunday (4/29) 0:20; onsite monday (4/30) a.m. 0:40, monday p.m. 2:00, total = 3:20</li>\n	<li>Sexton — Friday (5/4) 1:40</li>\n	<li>Wadsworth — Friday (5/4)  1:10</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn — email Sunday (4/29) 0:15</li>\n</ol>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\nSee later report (for Week of  2007/05/12 – 2007/05/18) for status of ongoing projects  as of the date of posting this report.\n<h1></h1>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\nSee later report (for Week of  2007/05/12 – 2007/05/18) for status of longer-term plans, as of the date of posting this report.\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Tech EXPO</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>With Sara and Shaz, made new web area for expo2007, emptied and refreshed the projects sign-up form and its data.</li>\n	<li>Set up accounts for MLK-CP students on CUIP server to participate in Expo web site.</li>\n	<li>I kibitzed on Jon and Sara\'s planning session Thursday.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>Summer planning and prep</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Discussed with some techcos, at their schools or at Principals meeting.  Mary Cobb has requested Dreamweaver training.  Terry Jones agreed in principle to recap his Hardware module for new-techco group.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Principals\' Retreat Thursday</li>\n	<li>It was wise that we made a trip to the Q-Club the day before the Retreat.  Finally got satisfactory networking!</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Good interaction with OTS folks at Principals meeting.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> eCUIP</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Not really eCUIP,  but Christie had some useful comments on Library Automation for the Principals.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>    Set up consultant account access per Julia\'s request.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>    Got a little more tidying and labelling done.</li>\n	<li>Brought in a new replacement D-Link switch for the old 3Com <strong>HUB</strong> serving the whole room from atop Erik\'s desk.  Didn\'t install and switch over yet.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Friday morning the two servers in Don\'s office were off the network (that includes the main CUIP server).  I assumed the port had been turned off by Network Security.  But it turned out the UPS had switched off.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>We can\'t pin down whether a dozen or so misnamed computers on the compliance page are actually in ENTR, or Leadership, or \"across the street\" .  Ariel H has checked out a couple rooms at ENTR and they\'re correct.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fermi</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Sanjaya has been hard at work on classroom and lab computers.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Kenwood</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Erik and I got Mrs Constantine into a productive discussion with Karen Sadler about laptop updates, on the  margins of the Principals  Retreat.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday (5/1) met with Ariel about Ghosting.  After we imaged one machine and went tyo do fixups, it turned out there were security restrictions.  So we started over, with Dell\'s  \"Beatles White Album\"  9-CD set.  We finished loading that and started on fixups.  Next steps: finish fixups, take image (on USB HDD, just to see the difference).</li>\n	<li>Also we performed miscellaneous teacher or classroom-computer services (with Mr. Ruffin), already detailed  in email  to Russ.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Ray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Email Saturday (4/28) 0:20; online server check and scripting Sunday 0:20; onsite monday a.m. 0:40, monday p.m. 2:00 -- all about web site revision.  Monday afternoon we moved some files around and<em><strong> implemented the new site at the established address ray.cps.k12.il.us </strong></em>.</li>\n	<li>Checked-in with Mary at her lab, discussed school tech management and CUIP\'s summer  programs.</li>\n	<li>With  Sanjaya at  Principals Retreat, checked with Mary and scheduled for next week  a  briefing at Ray, for  SP to pass  along specifics of procedures he has implemented there.  We scheduled to  match Bryan\'s  NSP  times, and Erik and I have it in our calendars too, so it should be a full party!</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Sexton</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>With Sara, Louisa, and Ms. Rose, worked on wireless setup of her computer and a couple in the Library.  Louisa will follow up on Tuesday for last Library computer, and the printer.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Shaz &amp; Jimmy &amp; I are cooking up a scheme for print-as-PDF to save Ms Brady\'s class\'s cartoons.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Wadsworth</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Friday  drop-in to consult with Sharon  on software permissions in lab.   I was able to get The Print Shop working for student INSTR sign-ins on a smaple computer, but only by giving too much permission to students (specifically, adding GG-6300-Student into the Power Users local group).  This was after trying to open file permissions on the program\'s area, which did not work.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Email Sunday about TechKnow</li>\n	<li>Russ took care of the Monday TechKnow session; Tuesday no school in afternoon.</li>\n	<li>I will go next Monday and Tuesday.  After that, let\'s see how it stands.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>(Optional) What’s playing now?:</strong>\n\nSee the Post title!','Just like Sister Ray says','','publish','open','closed','','just-like-sister-ray-says','','','2007-05-17 12:39:32','2007-05-17 18:39:32','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/17/just-like-sister-ray-says/',0,'post','',0),(234,28,'2007-04-30 13:37:27','2007-04-30 19:37:27','Murray Language Academy\n4/22-4/28\n2 hours Monday, 2 hours Wed\nTech Assistant\n\nThis week comprised of a mix of project work and grunt work. The old language lab has a lot of loose ends to clean up. I was in the lab working with the students for the majority of my time, accompanied by Erik and Joe Mills. The kids were great. Working on a project researching the history of Illinois, I was impressed at how patient they were with their terms. The levels of knowledge and the writing skills varied so much from student to student. The Audacity-Movie Maker project is well under way; the kids were writing their scripts and recording sound. I am struggling between being helpful and helping them help themselves, especially when it comes to internet research. They really need someone to read the information with them, or else they get easily overwhelmed by the information (especially if the writing is a bit difficult). My time in the lab is really worthwhile, and I\'m finally getting to know the kids.','Murray Week 7','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-7-2','','','2007-04-30 13:37:27','2007-04-30 19:37:27','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/30/murray-week-7-2/',0,'post','',0),(235,28,'2007-05-04 13:27:55','2007-05-04 19:27:55','Murray Language Academy\n4/31-5/4\n2 hours Monday, 2 hours Wed, 2 hours Friday\nTech Assistant\n\nI\'m spending more and more time in the lab with the kids. While this may, on paper, seem ultimately less productive (because it does not help the old language lab clean-up project, etc), I feel myself making a small impact on the kids. They have so many small questions, and I\'m finally learning how to turn their questions around so that they can answer them for themselves. The movie/poetry projects are more fun than the research projects, but in the research projects you can really begin to understand how kids learn, and how important one on one attention is. Small update duties this week too. ','Murray Week 8','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-8','','','2007-05-04 13:27:55','2007-05-04 19:27:55','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/04/murray-week-8/',0,'post','',0),(236,26,'2007-05-04 18:00:59','2007-05-05 00:00:59','Name: Dawei\nToday’s Date: 2007/05/04\nDays Worked: M\nTotal Hours: 1.5\nSchool: Ray\nKind of Work: website project\n\nFinally, Ray\'s website is now <a href=\"http://www.ray.cps.k12.il.us/\">live</a>! Monday 04/30/2007 marked the rebirth of Ray school\'s website, at last! Big thanks to Mitch, who has been constantly helping out Ms. Sheridan and I during the entire project. Ms. Sheridan has been very patient and cooperative as well. Without everybody, this website would not have been completed. Hooray!','Ray Website Week 15','','publish','open','closed','','ray-website-week-15','','','2007-05-04 18:00:59','2007-05-05 00:00:59','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/04/ray-website-week-15/',0,'post','',1),(237,8,'2007-05-06 14:14:57','2007-05-06 20:14:57','Erin\n\n2007/05/06\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W F\n\nTotal hours for week: 8.5\n\nThe School: Till\n\nKind of Work: Helping Teacher, Assist with Class, Project Prep\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\nThe Book Previews project is picking up again, since the nice new podcast format makes the updating less awkward. I think I sorted out all of the weird mismatched files that students had left on Mrs. Jacobson\'s computer, so that should be all up to date soon.\n\nMrs. Jacobson\'s after school group took a field trip to the Robie House on Thursday, so on Wednesday I took them in small groups and showed them how to use a digital camera. The kids had a lot of fun with it and they asked some good questions about the mechanics of cameras. On Friday I saw the pictures they had taken, and they were really proud of them.\n\nI checked with Mrs. White about her ABC project, and she\'s thinking of doing a powerpoint presentation with audio, video, and image clips. She wants some help collecting the source material, but I think she\'ll be okay to put most of the presentation together herself.\n\nAs a fun side project, Mrs. Jacobson wanted to relabel some of her boxes of books, so I spent some downtime making a cute little label set on Wednesday, too.','Is it only sixth week?','','publish','open','closed','','is-it-only-sixth-week','','','2007-05-06 14:14:57','2007-05-06 20:14:57','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/06/is-it-only-sixth-week/',0,'post','',0),(238,30,'2007-05-06 18:44:37','2007-05-07 00:44:37','Louisa at Sexton,\n\nfor both of these days i visited teachers in classes then spent the rest of the day in the lab.','4/24 & 4/27','','publish','open','closed','','424-427','','','2007-05-06 18:44:37','2007-05-07 00:44:37','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/06/424-427/',0,'post','',0),(239,30,'2007-05-06 18:49:34','2007-05-07 00:49:34','tue: moved dell computer from office to library and discussed a library website.  spent last part of the day in the lab.\n\nfri: worked with Mitch and Sara on the dell in the library, then transfered and organized video project files for Mrs. Ludlow.','5/1 & 5/4','','publish','open','closed','','51-54','','','2007-05-06 18:49:34','2007-05-07 00:49:34','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/06/51-54/',0,'post','',0),(240,16,'2007-05-07 01:09:02','2007-05-07 07:09:02','Your Name: James Salvatore.\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/mm/dd\nI forgot to do this last week, so this is for two weeks:\n\n[Week or date reporting about, if not most recent week: 2007/05/06]\n\nDay(s) worked or described: T Θ\n\nTotal hours for week: Uhm, I think 6ish for both weeks.\n\nThe School: Till.\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: On, I think, Tuesday or Thursday of one week the school had a half-day or a closed day or something, because I couldn\'t even get into the building.  I called off\'a work, consequently.  The rest of the days went something like this:\n\n--I tried, again, to fix Z\'s printer problem.  It\'s just that there are two printer options when he goes to print, instead of just one default.  I\'ve made progress, but sometimes the other one pops up.  I just need a good, long, hunk of time to work on it.\n\n--Ms. Brady\'s class needed mice fixed and needed a computer set up.  I did that.  I fixed two printers, and networked one of them.  I installed Adobe Flash reader for the cartoon project, and I\'ll be helping them on the project on Tuesday or Thursday of this coming week, I think.\n\n--Various teachers from little till called me in to ask me this-and-that about their computers.  Some needed minor fixing, and one wouldn\'t turn on, but I think the outlet may be bad.  I didn\'t get to switch it [I was on my way out] but I\'ll look at it next week.\n\nI don\'t think there was much else.  But this coming week should be interesting, with the cartooning project and all.','Till, Till, Till.','','publish','open','closed','','till-till-till','','','2007-05-07 01:09:02','2007-05-07 07:09:02','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/07/till-till-till/',0,'post','',1),(241,2,'2007-05-17 14:06:10','2007-05-17 20:06:10',' .\n<h1>Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/05/05 – (Fri) 2007/05/11</h1>\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n[I.e.  one week back]\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>\n<ol>\n	<li>Ray -- Tuesday 5/8, 1:10</li>\n	<li>Till -- Thurs (5/10) 3:00</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn – Monday 5/7, 2:45;Tuesday 5/8, 3:00; Wednesday 5/9 1:30;  Thurs (5/10) 0:10; total = 7:25</li>\n</ol>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\nSee later report (for Week of  2007/05/12 – 2007/05/18) for status of ongoing projects, as of the date of posting this report.\n\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\nSee later report (for Week of  2007/05/12 – 2007/05/18) for status of longer-term plans, as of the date of posting this report.\n\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Swap in the new D-Link switch in place of old 3Com HUB for our room AAC-007.\n<ul>\n	<li>Not done this week,</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Tech EXPO</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Heck yes!</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Summer planning and prep</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Postings to CPS Techco iShare discussion board, and related email with Sandip, concerning how to do INSTR student updates when SI is out of the picture.  Got an answer, automatic \"provisioning\" of student accounts is expected to be working by next week.</li>\n	<li>Email with Karen Sadler, looking for her stamp of approval on notes for how to keep wireless laptops updated.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>eCUIP</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\nA little more cleanup and labelling.\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>CUIP Servers</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Finally I had a chance to start tracking this again.  (Scared by last Friday\'s incident, which turned out to be just power failure.)  Issues are disk usage, backups, and security.</li>\n	<li>Looking for  additional/better  ways of using the NAS  units (the boxes on Erik\'s desk).  So far  it has been for copying-off things like backup files.  Looking into whether can be used for something mounted live.  But probably not regular user areas: the mounted extension does not use the host\'s user list or have multi owner/permission options of its own.  So maybe things like old Expo or old WIT sites?  Need to check that these remote cross-mounted files can be web-served!</li>\n	<li>Following the power-failure, not all the cross-mounting connections restarted themselves cleanly.  That needs to be cleared up before relying on those for anything much.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Personal Professional-Development Activities</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Did a little more Visual Basic Scripting studying than strictly required for the Till printer problem.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2>This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Ray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday: With Mary Cobb, Erik, Bryan, and Sanjaya.  SP reviewed for the rest of us the documentation and system for maintaining Ghost images for the different models in use at Ray.  \"Magic ISO\" is a great little program SP found, which let him get those multiple boot floppies onto single CDs with boot-time user menu interactoin to get the right one into play!</li>\n	<li>Brief check-in with Gabe Sheridan.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Thurs 5/10 fr 3 hr.  Checked in with Sudduth:\n<ul>\n	<li>Recent office network problem solved by replacing switch</li>\n	<li>She reports that teachers have adjusted to IMPACT well (all they need to do so far is attendance), but office staff still very burdened by it.   Looking into how to do the upcoming Progress Reports (not yet Report Cards) thru IMPACT.</li>\n	<li>Comparatively long-standing classroom connectivity problem [405/7/9,  Moyenda / Teague / White]. also apparently solved by equipment replacement</li>\n	<li>Discussed her experience with Jacobson\'s field trip to Art Institute</li>\n	<li>Next year\'s reading plans in Area 15</li>\n	<li>Springfield (IL) system web pages, very complete literacy site online, including system calendar</li>\n	<li>Discussed calendars -- Google, Ed Helper</li>\n	<li>I reiterated in person the gist of Sandip\'s email yesterday about holding off current INSTR student updates, and how the First Class based system is expected to work</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Checked with Teague and Moyenda (White was not available).  They are satisfied.</li>\n	<li>Some CDROM-based program in Ms Davis\'s room (411?) on the student computer was working for techco or for Sudduth under her own login, but not for Library4740 or Ms Davis\'s login or the students\' logins.  The error message was about \"can\'t install driver in C:windows, check if drive is full\".  Of course the full-disk part is total red herring.    I added INSTRGG-4740-student (and INSTRGG-4740-staff) into this-computerPowerUsers.</li>\n	<li>Checked in with Jacobson.  Computers and network in Library are fine.  She told me additional anecdotes about the Art Inst field trip.  Saw Jim Wagner, teachng FirstClass at Medill</li>\n	<li>Z\'s  \"extra printer entry\" problem addressed by using RemovePrinterConnection() in the Till student logon script, printer section for rm 204.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Sentinel has approved them for wireless.  Next Monday there will be a pre-installation meeting (and walk-thru) with Sentinel, Techco, Engineer, and Principal.  We\'re invited too.</li>\n	<li>The default IE homepage for students as defined in GPO fell outside of the defined DreamWeaver site for this year\'s lab curriculum.  Shaz and Pierre already worked with Carisa to neaten and organize the DW sites , so we left that undisturbed and instead changed the student homepage URL  in Group Policy so it would match the redefined DW upload paths.</li>\n	<li>Monday  (5/7) worked with the TechKnow group.  Thanks to Sara and Russ for covering this last week.  Russ\'s advice, to have the students really check the power and data connections well, was very helpful.  Today all students pretty quickly got HDD and CDROM detected in BIOS setup screen (some did not show the floppy diskette detected, we tried reconnecting but did not remove machine from OS installation).  Today\'s activity was OS installation.  They\'ve been given XP Home verson.  Book is a little off, talks about W2K; also it explains more about software package installation on an operating computer with OS already in place, out of place ahead of the OS install from CDROM boot.</li>\n	<li>Tuesday  (5/8): More TechKnow.  Before the session, Carisa and I went in and reviewed the stopping-place each student had reached.  During the session, three more students started the OS installation phase, most others completed it.  She decided to defer the Office install (and modem install) until Wednesday\'s make-up session or (as needed) next week.  Two computers seem to be in trouble.</li>\n	<li>Wednesday:  (5/9) More TechKnow.  (Make-up day -- optional for the students but most were there.)  The ones who were caught up got their Office CDs and did an installation and activation.   Carisa and I struggled with a few who were having hardware or OS-install problems, and up until almost the very end thought she might need to ask Bob for spares (or dig in the CUIP storeroom), but in the last 20 minutes or so, with some swapping of parts, it looks like both Jameeka and Brittany will be okay.  They will need to complete their OS installs and otherwise catch up, but they can do that tomorrow, neither is going on the Canada field trip.</li>\n	<li>Thursday (5/10) email about sporadic / intermittent  problem with student network folders.  But I didn\'t get there until 3:30 and CRBJ was gone.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong> (Would you care to share an aphorism, proverb, quip, epigram, “…Not!” gotcha, overheard remark, excerpt, brief lyric, stanza, or quotation?)\n\nMy uncle is sick but the road is green.\n\n<strong>(Optional) What’s playing now?:</strong>\n\nBartok,  Concerto for Orchestra','Ojibwa Tacoma Buffalo Roma','','publish','open','closed','','ojibwa-tacoma-buffalo-roma','','','2007-05-17 14:06:10','2007-05-17 20:06:10','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/17/ojibwa-tacoma-buffalo-roma/',0,'post','',0),(243,28,'2007-05-11 14:49:35','2007-05-11 20:49:35','Melissa Weihmayer\nMurray Language Academy\n5/6-5/11\n2 hours Monday, 2 hours Friday\nTech Assistant\n\nI continue to enjoy my time in the lab. We are still working on the same Audacity-Movie Maker projects. The third, fourth and fifth graders are all using similar programs, showing that these programs are accessible to really young grades. However, the projects themselves have variations between the grades which show the differences in age - the third graders are doing product advertisements while the fourth graders are reading well-known poems and the fifth graders do public-service announcements on more serious topics. Are the kids enjoying the project: very much so. Are they getting anything out of it? They are definitely acquiring computer experience - the fact that they\'re playing around with brand new programs (mostly with patience and curiosity) is a great skill to work on. However, they still get frustrated so easily, that I wish there were a way to teach them to calm down and figure it out for themselves before they just raise their hand to ask me how to do it. The conundrum of teaching computers, I guess. On a different note, we received twenty nice new computers from Dell this week, which were set up by Xavier and Joe and others, making the old language lab into a promising, usable space. I am currently in the works of tying up loose ends, such as hooking up speakers, storing old cables and power sources (SO MUCH COMPUTER JUNK), and the like.','Murray Week 9','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-9','','','2007-05-11 14:49:35','2007-05-11 20:49:35','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/11/murray-week-9/',0,'post','',1),(244,22,'2007-05-11 15:10:38','2007-05-11 21:10:38','I\'ve adjusted my schedule to 5 hours a week, 10:30-1:00 Tuesdays and Thursdays.\n\nI\'ve been busy re-imaging some computers that completely wonked out. Some of the printers also mysteriously went offline after the Board did something to them remotely, so I ran around Fuller bringing printers back online for distraught teachers. Mr. Shuler\'s computers now have boot passwords because he doesn\'t want his students using the comps without his permission. Other than that, business as usual!','Fixing Things!','','publish','open','closed','','fixing-things','','','2007-05-11 15:10:38','2007-05-11 21:10:38','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/11/fixing-things/',0,'post','',1),(245,29,'2007-05-11 15:19:26','2007-05-11 21:19:26','Ariel Marcus\n2007/5/4\nDay(s) worked or described: T\n3 and a half hours\nSchool of Leadership\nTech general\n\nWorked with Mitch and Russ on reimaging computers. We also took some computers from a teacher\'s room to the teacher\'s lounge. They should be called in as they are still under warranty.','School of Leadership Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','school-of-leadership-week-6','','','2007-05-11 15:19:26','2007-05-11 21:19:26','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/11/school-of-leadership-week-6/',0,'post','',0),(246,29,'2007-05-11 15:23:59','2007-05-11 21:23:59','Ariel Marcus\n2007/5/11\nDay(s) worked or described: T\n3 and a half hours\nSchool of Leadership\nTech general\n\nThe large printer in 314 had a paper jam in the back that I fixed. The copier in that room is out of toner. The computer that Mitch and I had used the white album on needed a lot of updates so I did most of that. I will hopefully image it next week. Is it possible that I would be able to have access to the entrepren-srv01 computer because I would like to save an image on the network as well as the external hard drive. This way it would be possible to fix any computer connected to the network. Things going well.\n\nAriel','School of Leadership Week 7','','publish','open','closed','','school-of-leadership-week-7','','','2007-05-11 15:23:59','2007-05-11 21:23:59','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/11/school-of-leadership-week-7/',0,'post','',1),(247,8,'2007-05-13 11:12:37','2007-05-13 17:12:37','Erin\n\n2007/05/13\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W F\n\nTotal hours for week: 8.5\n\nThe School: Till\n\nKind of Work: Helping Teacher, Project Execution\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Mrs. Jacobson\'s after school group took a field trip to the Art Institute on Wednesday, so I spent Monday helping her pull together an activity packet for them.  \n\nOn Wednesday Mrs. Jacobson was out (on the field trip) so I spent the afternoon bringing the Book Previews and Wright 3 blogs (almost) up to date. The students returned to Till shortly before I left, and they were quite excited to see their book reviews online. The podcasting format seems to be very intuitive for them, so I\'m glad I\'ve gotten the whole site standardized that way. \n\nOn Friday I fussed with the library\'s big printer (it continues its irritating habit of jamming every third page or so) and spent time with the Book Previews, the remainder of which I brought home to finish this weekend so that I can move on to other things (like getting ready for the Tech Expo) next week.','Seventh Week at Till','','publish','open','closed','','eighth-week-at-till','','','2007-05-13 11:12:37','2007-05-13 17:12:37','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/13/eighth-week-at-till/',0,'post','',1),(248,10,'2007-05-14 10:59:39','2007-05-14 16:59:39','Bryan\n\n2007/05/14\n\nDay(s) worked or described: T and F\n\nTotal hours for week: 5\n\nThe School: Ray\n\nKind of Work: Tech General\n\nSanjaya stopped in and demonstrated the ghosting boot CD he made.  He showed me how he went about creating it, and said that we might want to consider creating new images - which include the recent updates - by the end of the year.  \n\nTwo sets of speakers arrived to complete the projection carts we have on the second and third floors, respectively.\n\nAnd I think I forgot to mention it earlier, but the server was purged of all old backups, leaving two from each month.  ','Ray Week 7','','publish','open','closed','','ray-week-7-2','','','2007-05-14 10:59:39','2007-05-14 16:59:39','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/14/ray-week-7-2/',0,'post','',0),(249,30,'2007-05-14 13:48:31','2007-05-14 19:48:31','Louisa at Sexton;\n\ntue: worked for awhile on Ms. Ludlow\'s video project, then Sara arrived with a wireless card.  i installed wireless on one computer in the library, and connected the printer to that computer (the dell on the right).  i haven\'t registered it yet, though.\n\nfri: helped a couple teachers in the lab, and talked with Ms. Baca for a while.  for some reason a bunch of the lab computers weren\'t finding a connection, but after asking the internet to repair itself they all worked fine.  i also looked at comp 19, with the overactive vent.  there are no problems with the monitor connected to it-- i connected it to the next computer over, and it ran just fine. \n\ni also wanted to see if i could connect the new printer in the library to the network so that all three computers there could print, but a class was there watching a movie with a big fan on, and there is only one working outlet in the room.  so, having 3 computers, a printer, tv, fan, etc. all on at once running from the same outlet didn\'t seem very wise.  i plan to try again on tues.','5/8 & 5/11','','publish','open','closed','','58-511','','','2007-05-14 13:48:31','2007-05-14 19:48:31','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/14/58-511/',0,'post','',0),(250,2,'2007-05-18 13:43:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','\n<h1> Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/05/12 – (Fri) 2007/05/18</h1>\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.[MM out sick Wed. 5/16]\n\n[Friday was Progress Report day in the schools]\n<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>\n[MM out sick Wed. 5/16]\n[Friday 5/18 was Progress Report day in the schools]\n<ol>\n	<li>Fiske -- Tuesday (5/15) - 1:15</li>\n	<li>Kenwood -- Monday (5/14) -- 2:15 onsite + 20 min email followup -- Total = 2:35</li>\n	<li>Leadership -- Tuesday (5/15) - 2:15</li>\n	<li>Till -- Tuesday (5/15) - 0:45 -- Friday (5/18) - 1:00 -- Total = 1:45</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn -- Monday (5/14) -- 1:15 onsite + 15 min email followup -- Total = 1:30</li>\n</ol>\nAnd the infamous More tag ... <!--more--><strong>===============================</strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do\'s</h2>\n<ul>\n	<li>Swap in the new D-Link switch in place of old 3Com HUB for our room AAC-007.\n<ul>\n	<li>Not done this week,</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>     WordPress themes/plugins winnowing project:\n<ul>\n	<li>Erin\'s results have been in for a while</li>\n	<li>Shaz has provided useful points on the plugins</li>\n	<li>Trial blog with Default theme using sidebar widgets this week checked with staff, workalike functionality fine when not activated.  Substituted this in for Default and Classic in the WP standalone newblog setup.</li>\n	<li>Made some updates and deletions in Themes for the newblog distribution, still plenty left to do</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>CUIP office desktop backups system.  No progress this week.</li>\n	<li>CUIP servers backups\n<ul>\n	<li> Internal / onboard.  This week: played around a little with the different styles of cross-mounting.  See if live web service will work with a NFS or a CIFS (SAMBA) mount.</li>\n	<li>External.  Forwarded to Shaz the Galtsev correspondence.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>CUIP main server webserver/blogging/etc  software upgrade plan\n<ul>\n	<li>Note: The theme/plugins winnowing projec, a prerequisite to this general plan, is listed above in the Ongoing Projects section</li>\n	<li>Build Apache 2.x, run on separate port (say 180).</li>\n	<li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Convert our many VHOST entries to Apache 2 system</li>\n	<li>Staff assignments to check various VHOSTS and services (e.g. webmail, MDBC forum) on alternate port</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>PHP 5</li>\n	<li>MySQL 5 (DONE)</li>\n	<li>Repeat staff-assigned check of VHOST and services, including standalone WP blogs, with Apache 2 / PHP 5 / MySQL 5, still on alternate port</li>\n	<li>Switchover</li>\n	<li>Re-repeat staff-assigned check of VHOST and services, finally on standard port 80.</li>\n	<li>Read up on newer versions of WPMU than the one we tried before.  [Obviously, this \" step\" can start earlier.]</li>\n	<li>Install WPMU; staff tryout; release</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week\'s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Tech EXPO</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>Summer planning and prep</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3> eCUIP</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>\n<strong>------------------------------------------------</strong>\n<h3>Personal Professional-Development Activities</h3>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week\'s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Fiske</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday (5/15).</li>\n	<li>Erik got some of the Fiske students started on a PowerPoint to present &amp; explain the Nubia Project  -- this will be their Tech Expo display!</li>\n	<li>Check-in and update-conversations with Wilbert Miller.</li>\n	<li>The older server (Fiske-srv01) is low on space on C drive.  Running Server 2003 but no Service Pack level.   The  automatic OTS update to install SP2 did not work (we didn\'t expect it to), but at least didn\'t totally fill up the C: drive while trying.  Auto-updates is on and had downloaded a couple of patches; I clicked to install them but some failed.  On reboot the server needed manual keypress intervention , because one of the array drives is malfunctioning.  We discussed whether to be in a hurry to replace, and they probably will not.  But we should move any crucial services off to Fiske-srv02; the only obvious thing is Follett, and by next year maybe they will be on CPS-wide library automation anyway.</li>\n	<li>We discussed First-Class and how it may interact with the INSTR domain  student accounts.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Kenwood</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Monday  (5/14) with Erik, met with Damaris Constantine to discuss and try out laptop wireless management options.</li>\n	<li>The  procedures  discussed  with Karen  Sadler  after   the Prinipals\' Retreat weren\'t actually working fully.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday (5/15).  Worked with Ariel on setup of source computer for GX270 image.  Then we saved the image both to CUIP portable USB HDD and the Entrepren-srv01  server.</li>\n	<li>Reports from teachers about Verify problems.  Since we lack expertise in setting that up / fixing it, and Russ does have that expertise and is expected at the school Wednesday (next day), we just relayed the problem reports to him.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday (5/15).  Checked with Sudduth, White, and Jacobson about Expo plans.  Jacobson will show the two Book Club blogs (Charlotte and Wright).</li>\n	<li>Friday (5/18).   From request by Sudduth, went to Ali\'s teacher desk computer, which was not going on network.  Very weird and interesting problem that may indicate some OTS system changes!  (Did get solved.)</li>\n	<li>Also talked with Sudduth about class attendance coming to the Expo.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Monday (5/14) attended meeting on E-Rate Year 9 LAN Improvement Project planning for Woodlawn. Notes therefrom sent to Don and Shaz.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong> (Would you care to share an aphorism, proverb, quip, epigram, \"...Not!\" gotcha, overheard remark, excerpt, brief lyric, stanza, or quotation?)\n\n<strong>(Optional) What\'s playing now?:</strong>\n\n<strong>(Optional) What\'s been good to read lately?:</strong>\n\n&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;------&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;- <strong><em>Don\'t forget to mark categories</em></strong> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;-----&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;\n<em>(How to mark categories: Clear </em>Person Reporting<em> box, but check your name in the </em>Person Reporting<em> section; check your school in the </em>Schools<em> section; and check one or more descriptors in the </em>Kind of Work<em> section.  Thanks!)  </em>','My Composition is Called \"Untitled\"','','draft','open','closed','','','','','2007-05-18 13:43:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/?p=250',0,'post','',0),(251,8,'2007-05-21 09:24:25','2007-05-21 15:24:25','Erin\n\n2007/05/16\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W\n\nTotal hours for week: 6\n\nThe School: Till\n\nKind of Work: Helping Teacher, Project Execution, Assist with Class\n\nMain Report or Narrative: On Monday I helped Mrs. Jacobson get ready for the Real Men Read program on Wednesday (printing off some new labels, making sure the blog projects were in order, and so on.) On Wednesday I worked with the after school group-- I made up an interactive activity for the tech expo that incorporates the kids\' previous work on the blog. The students wrote \"secret codes,\" which I believe is also meant to be part of the exhibition.\n\nOn an interesting side note, Blue Balliett responded to the students\' letters and is coming to visit Till either this week or next.','Eighth week? EIGHTH week?','','publish','open','closed','','eighth-week-eighth-week','','','2007-05-21 09:24:25','2007-05-21 15:24:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/21/eighth-week-eighth-week/',0,'post','',1),(252,7,'2007-05-18 14:19:36','2007-05-18 20:19:36','Your Name: Xavier Hernandez\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/05/18\n\nDay(s) worked or described:  T TH\n\nTotal hours for week: 4\n\nThe School: Murray\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\n\nThe lab in 204 got all new computers. For some reason, none of the disc drives on the computers wanted to read discs of any format. I looked at the BIOS settings to see if the drive was installed and being recognized by the computer and was surprised to find out that it was. I resolved the problem by right clicking on My Computer, click Properties, Hardware, Device Manager, select the drive and uninstall it. When I restarted the computer, the computer recognized the drive and installed it. it worked without problems afterwards. I then installed a networked printer on all of the computers. There was a computer in room 216 that was not starting and had a flashing amber light. Joe bought it another motherboard and replaced it but the amber light continued. I took out the power supply from one of the other computers in the lab and put it into the one that wasn\'t working and that did the trick. Joe is going to order a replacement power supply for the computer that we took the good one out of.','8th Week Murray','','publish','open','closed','','8th-week-murray','','','2007-05-18 14:19:36','2007-05-18 20:19:36','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/18/8th-week-murray/',0,'post','',0),(253,28,'2007-05-18 14:25:11','2007-05-18 20:25:11','Melissa Weihmayer\nMurray Language Academy\n5/13-5/18\n2 hours Monday, 3 hours Wednesday, 2 hours Friday\nTech Assistant\n\nMy time spent at Murray is getting more frenetic again because of midterms, etc,  but I am glad that I got in a good amount of hours this week. We are still working on the movie projects, which is still pretty cool (the friday fourth graders are my favorite, although often they have too much energy on a friday afternoon). I am beginning to confront the issue of students with learning disabilities, which seems to be something that CPS does very little about... they are particularly impatient when typing, and cannot follow directions at all. Work in the refurbished language lab as well. I am looking forward to next week, because on Monday I will be leading one of the computer lab periods while Joe is out. I am quite honored that they are asking me to do this, because although I will be helping out with individual questions like always, I am going to present the next step of the project (and review old steps). Hopefully it will go all right and the kids will listen carefully....','Murray Week 10','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-10','','','2007-05-18 14:25:11','2007-05-18 20:25:11','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/18/murray-week-10/',0,'post','',0),(254,30,'2007-05-20 23:56:04','2007-05-21 05:56:04','Louisa at Sexton:\n\ntue: started in the lab, reset the internet connections ( network name and password) for computers 2 and 8.  then connected speakers to one of Ms Ludlow\'s computers, made sure both connected, and attempted to get her video project working-- it seems there is some problem with quicktime.\n\nfri: started in the lab, reset internet connections for computers 10, 16, 12 and 5.  for some of them i used hexadecimal because i couldn\'t get ASCII to work.  --i\'m not sure why they keep loosing their connections-- i think that all the kids trying to connect at once causes some problems.  i also added Ms. Ludlow\'s blog to the favorites on most of the computers because she want\'s to take her class in to look at their projects (there\'s one row i haven\'t gotten to yet) and tried to find the best way to view them.  you can get to her blog from the link \"Sexton\'s Students Reel Video\" in the folder \"teacher\'s blogs.\"  when viewing the videos, if you click \"play now\" or \"play in popup\" quicktime runs, but only shows the video while downloading, after the video has finished downloading only the sound plays on a blank screen.  if you click \"VIDEO AIV\" windows media player runs.  the videos take a *long time* to load, but play perfectly.','5/15 & 5/18','','publish','open','closed','','515-518','','','2007-05-20 23:56:04','2007-05-21 05:56:04','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/20/515-518/',0,'post','',1),(255,2,'2007-05-29 06:32:43','0000-00-00 00:00:00','\n<p class=\"main\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h1> Staff (Mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/05/19 – (Fri) 2007/05/25</h1>\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n[EXPO WEEK!]\n\n[Wednesday on-site prep at MLK-CP]\n\n[Expo on Thursday]\n\n[Friday day off.]\n<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>\n<ol>\n	<li>Till - Tuesday - :45</li>\n	<li>Woodlawn - Tuesday - 0:15 plus 0:15 email - Wednesday at school 1:30</li>\n</ol>\n<strong>===============================</strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Tech EXPO</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>    Weekend -- Office Depot and Party Store shopping</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Summer planning and prep</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> eCUIP</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Personal Professional-Development Activities</h3>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Kozminski</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Met with Ms Zivko  at the Expo , discussed  WP  plugins to install next week.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday, stopped by to ask in person  about their student  trip to Tech Expo.  No results, eventually Shaz got in touch with Principal Rodgers.</li>\n	<li>Linda and I looked at student INSTR coverage and passwords.    We set password for a girl who was not in the lists.  But I think she was in the system since last Fall, just wasn\'t in the password spreadsheet because we excluded below grade 3 and they have just started having them log in.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Tuesday checked in to ask about Tech Expo preps.  The field trip students will be okay.  Some concern about getting project in shape.</li>\n	<li>Tuesday / Wednesday  networking issues.</li>\n	<li>Wednesday I swung by Woodlawn in-between setup activities at King.  The networking issue was cleared up by the tme I got there, though Carisa mentions that she had to do a lot of rebooting.  We worked on the sound clips in the Power Point presentation for their class trip project.  I helped her some; the full fix was done by Sanjaya, Thursday on the Expo floor!</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong> (Would you care to share an aphorism, proverb, quip, epigram, “…Not!” gotcha, overheard remark, excerpt, brief lyric, stanza, or quotation?)\n\n<strong>(Optional) What’s playing now?:</strong>\n\n<strong>(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?:</strong>\n\n<em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Blackeyes-Dennis-Potter/dp/0571150160/ref=sr_1_1/104-4871339-7735912?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1180441870&amp;sr=8-1\"><span class=\"srTitle\">Blackeyes</span></a></em>      by Dennis Potter -- a novel from this writer generally more known for his great teleplays.<em>  </em>','Stayed too Late at the Fair','','draft','open','closed','','','','','2007-05-29 06:32:43','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/?p=255',0,'post','',0),(256,28,'2007-05-25 12:51:42','2007-05-25 18:51:42','Melissa Weihmayer\nMurray Language Academy\n5/20-5/25\n3 hours Monday, 2 hours Friday\nTech Assistant\n\nOn Monday, although Joe Mills was able to make it for the afternoon lab period, I went ahead with my mini-lesson. I went briefly through transitions and saving on Windows Movie Maker with the class, and then fielded some questions. The kids were most attentive when we asked them first how to proceed, before telling them the right answer. They asked good, appropriate questions and the class went smoothly. However, we noticed that a few students had misinterpreted previous directions. For example, we had said, \"don\'t just get two or three pictures from the web, get as many as you can so that you have some to pick from for the final project\". Some students, wanting to do a good job (or maybe just wanting to stay with a pursuit that they could succeed at easily), found over thirty pictures for a twenty-thirty second slideshow. They were therefore very behind, not necessarily through a fault of their own or ours. This goes to show that the kids need us to be overly specific with our directions, especially since they don\'t quite have the logic skills yet to figure out where they have room to experiment. Some of the class was spent assuaging panic, and catching some kids up to where they were supposed to be. Next Wednesday will be my last day, so hopefully I will get to say goodbye to some of the kids that I\'ve gotten to spend time with.\n\nQuestion: Does CUIP participate in the nsp-evaluation form? Is there still time to submit it? Could I ask Joe Mills for a recommendation for future jobs?','Murray Week 11','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-11','','','2007-05-25 12:51:42','2007-05-25 18:51:42','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/25/murray-week-11/',0,'post','',0),(257,10,'2007-05-25 15:14:42','2007-05-25 21:14:42','Bryan Duff\n2x (T, Th, F) (16 hours)\nRay\nTech General\n\nThings are going well at Ray.  Mr. Jimenez\'s project seemed to go over very well at the expo and Ms. Cobb also said the kids enjoyed her presentation.\n\nWe\'ve had some problems with the Dell 6x 280 Optiplex.  We now have two machines that don\'t do anything after being booted other than creating a sound that sounds like an airplane take off.  Dell\'s agreed to replace the machines, but it\'s likely this will continue with other computers of the same model (it seems to be a defect that causes the computer to drastically overheat).  \n\nPrinters and servers are all still good to go!\n\nThe EXPO was really great - especially the clean up.  Erik really quarterbacked our withdraw from King High School really well.  Having laptops this year made it a lot easier to clear the space.\n\nHard to believe the quarter is almost over!  Things are still going well at Ray,\n\nBryan','Ray Week 8+9','','publish','open','closed','','ray-week-89','','','2007-05-25 15:14:42','2007-05-25 21:14:42','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/25/ray-week-89/',0,'post','',0),(258,8,'2007-05-25 15:28:35','2007-05-25 21:28:35','Erin\n\n2007/05/16\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W Th\n\nTotal hours for week: 6\n\nThe School: Till, Expo\n\nKind of Work: Project Execution, Expo Set Up and Take Down\n\nMain Report or Narrative: I got to the expo toward the very end of things, so I didn\'t get to see too much. Some of the projects I did get to see, though, looked really interesting. It was great to see so much AV material--I feel like it was a lot more than last year. The students seemed excited and I heard a few of the older ones talking about it as we were taking down, so I think the expo was a success. Getting laptops was also a good move-- clean up was much quicker than with the desktops last year.','So you\'re telling me that ninth week is over.','','publish','open','closed','','so-youre-telling-me-that-ninth-week-is-over','','','2007-05-25 15:28:35','2007-05-25 21:28:35','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/25/so-youre-telling-me-that-ninth-week-is-over/',0,'post','',0),(259,2,'2007-06-01 14:45:34','0000-00-00 00:00:00','\n<p class=\"main\">&nbsp;</p>\n\n<h1> Staff Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/05/26 – (Fri) 2007/06/01</h1>\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\n[Monday was Memorial Day holiday]\n<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>\n<ol>\n	<li>Fermi - Wednesday 5/30 - Tech notes with SP, Expo followup with school admins = 2:00</li>\n	<li>Murray and Kozminski - Tuesday 5/29 - online 4:00</li>\n	<li>Murray - Wednesday 5/30 - onsite 1:00 -- online 3:00</li>\n	<li>Ray - Wednesday 5/30 - Check-in with Mary -0:30</li>\n</ol>\n<strong>===============================</strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<hr />\n<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>\n<strong>———————————————</strong>\n<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Tech EXPO</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Summer planning and prep</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>\nStarted our \"CUIP: The Movie\" Casting Blog going.  (Not on company time, btw, if anybody cares.)  Find it at <a href=\"http://blogs.cuip.net/practice/casting\">http://blogs.cuip.net/practice/casting</a> and ask around for the apache username and password.\n\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> eCUIP</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>\n<strong>————————————————</strong>\n<h3>Personal Professional-Development Activities</h3>\n<strong>===============================</strong>\n<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>\n<h3>Canter</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Dumas</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fermi</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>With SP, looked over lab and servers, discussed plans.</li>\n	<li>Spoke briefly with Mr  Taylor, thanking them for sending a contingent to the Expo, and telling him we will get back to them later for  overview planning.  Passed  along Sanjaya\'s  lab concerns.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fiske</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Fuller</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Kenwood</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Mollison</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Murray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Murray and Kozminski - Tuesday 5/29 - online 4:00 - WP updates and media plugins</li>\n	<li>Wednesday 5/30 - check in to see new/old lab, work with Joe about media selection in web page.  Took away samples to work on.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Price</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Ray</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>Wednesday 5/30 - Check-in with Mary.  Helped class with printing and saving a poetry-in-Powerpoint project.</li>\n	<li>Discussed Summer plans.  Mary will not be here during reboot time.  But it is okay with her for us to use lab.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Sexton</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Shoesmith</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Till</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Wadsworth</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodlawn</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Woodson</h3>\n<ul>\n	<li>item 1</li>\n	<li>item 2</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong> (Would you care to share an aphorism, proverb, quip, epigram, “…Not!” gotcha, overheard remark, excerpt, brief lyric, stanza, or quotation?)\n\n<strong>(Optional) What’s playing now?:</strong>\n\n<strong>(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?:</strong>\n\n&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;——&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;- <strong><em>Don’t forget to mark categories</em></strong> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;—–&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;\n<em>(How to mark categories: Clear </em>Person Reporting<em> box, but check your name in the </em>Person Reporting<em> section; check your school in the </em>Schools<em> section; and check one or more descriptors in the </em>Kind of Work<em> section.  Thanks!)  </em>','Acheiropoietoi','','draft','open','closed','','','','','2007-06-01 14:45:34','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/?p=259',0,'post','',0),(260,28,'2007-05-30 14:23:30','2007-05-30 20:23:30','Melissa Weihmayer\nMurray Language Academy\n5/28-6/1\n3 hours Wednesday\nTech Assistant\n\nThis is my final week at Murray. I cannot believe how easy it was to get used to the facilities and to the technology work over this past quarter. I spent this week wrapping up loose ends with windows updates and the movie projects, saying goodbye to a few students. Joe Mills has been a great influence, and I hope to work with him again in the future.','Murray Week 12','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-12','','','2007-05-30 14:23:30','2007-05-30 20:23:30','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/05/30/murray-week-12/',0,'post','',0),(261,10,'2007-06-02 12:04:12','2007-06-02 18:04:12','Bryan Duff\nRay Elementary\nTech General\n\nWell, it was a good solid week at Ray.  Everything seems to be in order.  I spent a good portion of the week mainly just rearranging and organizing the software and backup discs in the lab.  We were able to get rid of a lot of extra stuff / obsolete computer games and made a lot of room.  It was really rewarding (of course, I might be somewhat bias because I generally enjoy organizing things).  I\'m probably going to make one last stop in next Tuesday just to switch the tapes in the server and see if any teachers need help.  I also need to stop in with Mrs. Fields and see if she\'s ready yet to clear off her harddrive, and if not I need to show her how.\n\nAllow me to just say once again how much I thoroughly enjoy my job.  I really love all of the teachers and staff at Ray (it\'ll be sad to see Mrs. Fields and Ms. Lobbins go),  of course the students are great, too.  If it would be at all possible, I would be honored to be allowed to return next year...or at the very least to help out with CUIP in some fashion.  I\'ll try to make it by the office this week to discuss next year (if need be).  I just want to thank Shaz, Mitch, Erik, Sara for all of their hard work in making this such a productive, rewarding, and wonderful experience.  \n\n<strong>In addition, I\'d like to especially thank <font color=\"blue\"><em>Ms. Cobb</em><font color=\"black\"> for everything and another great year at Ray.</strong>\n','Ray wrap-up','','publish','open','closed','','ray-wrap-up','','','2007-06-02 12:04:12','2007-06-02 18:04:12','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/06/02/ray-wrap-up/',0,'post','',0),(262,14,'2007-06-05 14:36:12','2007-06-05 20:36:12','Your Name: Peter smutko\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/06/04\n\nReporting on: the last few weeks\n\nThe School: Fiske\n\nKind of Work: (Tech general, Tech for Project)\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Leading up to the tech expo I helped Antavia and DeMarco, 8th grade students, learn to use powerpoint to make a presentation about the Nubia Project at the Tech Expo.  I also continued to do small tasks around the school (e.g. sign up the spanish teachers for windows live messenger, pull a stuck piece of metal out of someone\'s floppy drive).  On the day of the tech expo I didn\'t get out of class on time to see the displays, but I helped clean up for a couple hours and got everything put away back at the CUIP office.  Since then I\'ve been bogged down with school work during reading period and finals week.','Fiske','','publish','open','closed','','fiske-2','','','2007-06-05 14:36:12','2007-06-05 20:36:12','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/06/05/fiske-2/',0,'post','',0),(264,10,'2007-10-19 15:28:12','2007-10-19 21:28:12','Bryan Duff\nFriday, October 18th: 12:30-3:30 (3 hours)\nTech General\n\nToday was a fairly productive day at Harte. Once we got the locksmith to open to the MDF room, we were able to reboot the server in order to move the Star data files over to the new server (harte-srv01). This was a very fortunate thing to do, as Mitch discovered today that the old server, ntsrv (I think), is having fan issues and is likely on its last legs. The Star data files were moved and other files were backed up (which will eventually be moved).\n\nBecause of this, it is now necessary to redirect all of the star programs in the building to the new data location: \\harte-srv01ALSDATA. I was able to do all of the machines in the lab today, so there are likely only 30 or so left (at the most to do). This is a fairly easy process:\n<ul>\n	<li>Login to the computer (NOT INSTR) as student.</li>\n	<li>Go to run and type in \"\\harte-srv01ALSDATA\"</li>\n	<li>Provide the necessary administrator login and password.</li>\n	<li>Open each Star program\'s management program.</li>\n	<li>When it asks to redirect the data location, point it towards \"\\harte-srv01ALSDATA\" (For two programs - I forget which ones exactly - this will require browsing to it manually under My Network Places.</li>\n</ul>\nThat\'s all. Just a note: There were actually 6 Star programs on each lab computer, so it took me longer than I thought it would. Luckily, it wasn\'t so painful as four of the programs allowed you type in the data location (I pasted it).\n\nAfter this process is finished for the building, Harte will be in MUCH better shape and there will only be minor issues to address (such as getting rid of the old server - but its most important contents are now secure).','Week 4 at Harte','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-at-harte','','','2007-10-19 15:28:12','2007-10-19 21:28:12','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/19/week-4-at-harte/',0,'post','',0),(265,34,'2007-10-19 16:30:55','2007-10-19 22:30:55','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/10/19\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: After extensive physical labor, the computer lab tables are now in place!\n\nRuss gave me sheets detailing problems this past Tuesday, but I was unable to attend to most of those this week.\n\nHowever, Russ also sent me an email about problems other teachers had: Mrs. Harris in room 205 with a printer, and Mr. Fishbein in room 106 who needed a computer set up. Ms. Ahad informed me of a printing problem in 103, and another issue I was unable to get to. I don’t think it was Mrs. Harris in room 205, but she informed me that she had just taken the printers out and was going to bring her own from home. When she does, I’ll hook them up for her.\nI hooked up Mr. Fishbein’s computer, but I get a “non-system disk or disk error” error, and I can’t seem to enter the BIOS on the Compaq AP400 machines.\n\nIn room 103, the IEEE printer cable does not seem to be working. If there were a spare USB around, I could check and see if that works. There may have been a printer hardware issue that I fixed.\nIn the computer lab, I’ve set up nearly every computer to connect to the Lab East Printer – I just need to double-check W7-W12. Also W18 seems to be acting slow.\n\n<strong>Misc:</strong> I read “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield not long ago and enjoyed it very much.','Week 4 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-canter','','','2007-10-19 16:30:55','2007-10-19 22:30:55','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/19/week-4-canter/',0,'post','',3),(266,35,'2007-10-21 10:59:53','2007-10-21 16:59:53','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Zhang Zhang\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/10/21\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: M, W, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 6\n<strong>The School</strong>: Ray Elementary\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech Support\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\n<em>It has been a great Endeavor of which many a battle was seen in this  plight of Computers. Now, the week has ended, and the tides have turned.  We may yet hit the hay with assurance of a new dawn, a prospect of printers that may once again roll out great sheets of classroom assignments, and desktops that are free to confer amongst each other, for all goes well with rooms 104, 113, 114, 207, 209, 213, 214, 301, 309, 310, 314, 512, and many more.\n</em>\n\n<em>We have the upper hand in this great Struggle, but still that is not to say that the future will not be ridden with danger and despair.  No, for great challenges lie ahead, beyond petty workings of Machinery.  With this power, we must seize upon it and effect a new order, one of projects and teachings on Technology and in doing so must we take hold upon the future of the institution of Ray.</em>','Week 4 @ Ray School','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-ray-school','','','2007-10-21 10:59:53','2007-10-21 16:59:53','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/21/week-4-ray-school/',0,'post','',2),(267,37,'2007-10-21 13:51:55','2007-10-21 19:51:55','Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\nToday’s Date: 2007/10/21\nReporting on most recent week\nDay(s) worked or described: W, F (12:30-3:30)\nTotal hours for week: 6\nThe School: Fermi Elementary\nKind of Work: Tech General/Computer Lab Upkeep\nMain Report or Narrative: The first thing I did upon arriving on Wednesday was to attempt to help a teacher in 207 with retrieving her password. I didn\'t really know how to help her at the time, but it turns out that she had to use the password help number. I also went back to help her from 3:00 to 3:30 the same day.\n\nAt 1:00 or 1:30, I began the process of lugging the 5 computers and 6 monitors from room 224 to the computer lab, room 219. I used the only cart I could find, and brought the computers over 1.5 at a time. All of the cabinets were already full of computers, so I just left the computers in the surrounding area. (Which was already full of computers). The process of moving the computers took a while, because the cart was kind of breaking, so I had to take it slow.\n\nAt 2:15 or 2:30, I began plugging in all of the computers that had been unplugged for painting. This was pretty straightforward, as all of the necessary plugs were pretty much dangling right there. After the computers were up and running, I turned them all on. I was kind of under a time crunch, because I had promised the teacher in 207 that I would go back. So, I quickly tested one or two computers, which seemed to work, and then headed back to 207 until the end of the day.\n\nOn Friday, things were slower because it was a staff development day. There were no tech requests waiting for me when I got there.\n\nI had to wait until 1:00 PM to get into the computer lab. Emily had already tested all of the computers in the lab. However, some of the teachers were having an Impact training session. There were some problems with that program, such as it not letting the teachers in. It just sat at the license agreement page and didn\'t go any further. It seemed like it was a server problem, so I couldn\'t do much to help. The teachers eventually just crowded around those computers that could enter Impact.\n\nEmily had left me notes about four malfunctioning computers. Two of them had problems recognizing various peripherals. I have seen problems like that a lot with computers: one USB or old-fashioned port will stop functioning for some reason, while others will keep working. Luckily, we have piles of different kinds of keyboards lying around, so I was able to mix and match and use different ports. Eventually, I found a working keyboard and mouse for both computers, so I declared them fixed.\n\nThe other two broken computers were not so easy. One simply wouldn\'t turn on at all. I didn\'t really have the tools or the expertise to open it up and see what could possibly be wrong. The other computer kept asking for a Windows XP Setup disk, which I didn\'t have. I found an Acer 5100 recovery disk, but the computer was a 5500. If we can find the right disk, we might be able to get the computer to work.\n\nThe rest of my time on Friday was spent with one of the computers that I had carried over from 224. I didn\'t really know the exact steps I should take to bring the computer up to code. (I know that there are the six scripts on the tech page, but the computer already seemed to have most of those things done) I started to run Windows Update, because it was missing a lot of critical updates, but that was taking forever, so I decided to switch to installing deep freeze instead.\n\nI think I did something wrong somewhere, though, because when I restarted the computer, it refused to accept the \"techco\" account. I tried to do more with the computer, but since I didn\'t have administrator rights, I eventually have to give it up and go home.\n\nFor next week, we need to continue to work to bring the 224 computers up to code. If I can get a good system down to make the necessary changes quickly, it won\'t take as long as it did on Friday. Not locking myself out of the admin account would also be a good start.','Week 4 at Fermi (Dana\'s Perspective)','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-at-fermi-danas-perspective','','','2007-10-21 13:51:55','2007-10-21 19:51:55','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/21/week-4-at-fermi-danas-perspective/',0,'post','',1),(268,36,'2007-10-21 16:55:19','2007-10-21 22:55:19','<strong>Your Name: Sara Tamler\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date: </strong>Week of October 15-20\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W Θ\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 5 1/2\n\n<strong>The School:</strong> Wadsworth\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This week I was mainly helping Ms. Warden, the lab supervisor, to clean up and update the 30+ computers in the computer lab. I cleared all the computers of extraneous data and cleaned up their desktop, and I downloaded a few programs that Ms. Warden uses on about half of them. Apparently this past week was the first time a lot of the kids were coming into the lab, so when Ms. Warden had a class I would help with really basic computer problems - \"how do you get to the internet?\" \"how do you make the @ sign?\" \"the printer is out of paper!\"-type things. Next week Ms. Warden wants to start an inventory on all the computers in other classrooms - find out what\'s working and what\'s not - and work on getting at least 3 working computers and a printer in each classroom. Great first week!\n\n<strong><em>(Additional notes to include, only if  applicable)</em></strong>\n\n<strong>My regular schedule at this school has changed, to become: </strong>Wed 1-4:30, Thurs 12:30-2:30, Fri 12-3:30, for now. I very possibly will add Tues 12:30-2:30 after mid-terms are over\n\n<strong>(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: </strong>Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations...<strong>NOT</strong>','Wadsworth Report','','publish','open','closed','','wadsworth-report','','','2007-10-21 16:55:19','2007-10-21 22:55:19','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/21/wadsworth-report/',0,'post','',0),(269,17,'2007-10-21 19:30:35','2007-10-22 01:30:35','<p>Your Name: Li An Kwan</p>\n<p>Today’s Date: 2007/10/21</p>\n<p>Fall Week 4</p>\n<p>Day(s) worked or described: M W F</p>\n<p>Total hours for week: 10.5</p>\n<p>The School: Woodson</p>\n<p>Kind of Work: (Tech general)</p>\n<p>Main Report or Narrative:</p>\n<p>1. Did a lot of computer maintenance work ever since Mr. Spearman implemented the \"Tech Request Form\" system. I think it\'s a good system, more organized, but more work for me since teachers are more likely to request when they have some kind of form.</p>\n<p>2. Exercised my guns by lifting more than a dozen computers that were sent by Dell TechKnow</p>\n<p>3. Tested all the Dell TechKnow computers and they all seem to worked</p>\n<p>4. I think I did some banners for Child Parent Center, but don\'t remember clearly</p>\n<p>(Optional) Thought for the week: Don\'t smoke weed.</p>\n<p>(Optional) What’s playing now?: Nelly: N Dey Say</p>\n<p>(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: Anything but Plato and Aristotle.</p>\n','Woodson Elementary Fall Week 4','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-elementary-fall-week-4','','','2007-10-21 19:30:35','2007-10-22 01:30:35','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/21/woodson-elementary-fall-week-4/',0,'post','',1),(270,14,'2007-10-21 22:32:07','2007-10-22 04:32:07','Peter Smutko\nMurray Language Academy\n10/2/07 - 10/21/07\n\nJoe has had me try out a few different programs to see if they\'d be worthwhile for use in the lab, the most successful of which was one called italc (sourceforge.net/projects/italc) which lets one master (teacher) computer monitor any other set up with the client.  It\'s free and works pretty well, with lots of extra features.\nSince then I\'ve gone around to the classrooms in the school to run some windows updates, make sure firefox is installed, and for some of the older student\'s classrooms I installed library catalog software to let them search for books from the classroom.\nThe upcoming project he has for me is to re-describe classroom computers to something that will be more meaningful when viewed from the compliance page.','Starting the year at Murray','','publish','open','closed','','starting-the-year-at-murray','','','2007-10-21 22:32:07','2007-10-22 04:32:07','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/21/starting-the-year-at-murray/',0,'post','',1),(271,38,'2007-10-22 07:57:20','2007-10-22 13:57:20','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/22\n\n[Week or date reporting about, if not most recent week: 2007/10/15]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T <strong>W</strong> Θ<strong> F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi Elementary</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, teacher help\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong> The week started out strong with the installation of Picasa on Dr. Sanders\' and Mr. Taylor\'s computers. I taught everyone who happened to be in the office at the time how to upload and organize pictures, which should help out a lot when we eventually start working on a school website/newspaper. Dr. Sanders was hugely pleased. I also tested all of the computers in the library for internet connectivity and general functionality. Almost all of them seem to be working pretty well, except for one that seems to want to boot from the CD-ROM.\n\nOn Wednesday, I spent most of my time working with Mr. Orekoya. He had a variety of tech requests that took a little while to unravel. Apparently, his monitor had stopped working a few days ago because someone had flipped a little switch in the back of the computer from 115 to 230. I had never heard of this in my life, but when I flipped the switch (in the name of scientific inquiry), the monitor did go off. Now I know! His printer was a little finicky, but I think I fixed that by changing the port to which it was printing. His other complaints were a little harder to take care of. Although I didn\'t actually witness any problem, he reported that his classroom computers often refuse to connect to the internet. I wasn\'t sure what the problem was (all of the physical connections were fine, and it worked for me), but I recommended that he just restart the computers when they won\'t connect. His own computer is also running very slowly, especially at startup. Maybe it needs to be defragmented? Do people even do that any more? I don\'t know, but I wouldn\'t mind spending a morning staring at the little boxes as they change colors. It\'s like Tetris, but without all the work. I also tried to help Ms. Stokley log onto her computer -- her password had been changed by the board, which I didn\'t really know how to deal with at the time. Fortunately, it seems that Dana did! Phew.\n\nOn Friday, I tried to help a teacher whose computer turns off completely after it goes to sleep (changed a few power settings -- hopefully it worked), and bumbled around the computer lab checking all of the computers to make sure that they worked and could connect to the internet. It was a pleasant surprise to find that all but about four work beautifully! Today, no tech requests, so I\'m just hanging out in the computer lab and doing my reporting. The keyboard with which I\'m typing has a freakishly sticky space bar, so I\'ll                                                        try to           fix   that. Wish me                                    luck!','Reporting Live, from Fermi, on Week 4 at Fermi','','publish','open','closed','','reporting-live-from-fermi-on-week-4-at-fermi','','','2007-10-22 07:57:20','2007-10-22 13:57:20','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/22/reporting-live-from-fermi-on-week-4-at-fermi/',0,'post','',1),(272,33,'2007-10-22 10:46:57','2007-10-22 16:46:57','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/22\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 10/15/2007]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>somewhere between seven &amp; eight\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision, <strong>Fax Machine installation :P)</strong>\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>The first week at Mollison has been particularly fruitful.  My first impression of the computer lab was earmarked by the intense wave of heat caused by the lack of air conditioning in the lab itself.  After an initial check-up, it became clear that either the heat or some other external factor had caused only 16 of the 28 computers to be functional.  After sorting out several issues of keyboard and mouse and ethernet cable, I was able to get 24 of the 28 up and running.  Great success!!\n\nIn other news, the fax machine firmware fiasco is still ongoing and the man from India that represented Lexmark told me to contact the people that Mollison bought it from, CDW in this case.  That issue is still being resolved, which means that sooner or later I get to crack open the printer again and fulfill my nerdy firmware fantasy.  :D\n\nThe next step is to take the working and relatively good computers from the copy room and distribute them to places they are needed most.  The computer lab takes priority, according to my supervisor anyway.  After that I have a teacher that might need a new computer, and then finally the library.  From what I can tell, the main concern with putting any new computers in the library is that the teacher in the library has not demonstrated an adequate ability to control her students.  So, right now, the library is home to the worst computers at Mollison.  Woot!  Anyway, got to get back to work.\n\n<strong>Something to read:</strong> MFP 4600 option scanner manual ;)','Mollison Update Part 1: The Beginning','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-update-part-1-the-beginning','','','2007-10-22 10:46:57','2007-10-22 16:46:57','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/22/mollison-update-part-1-the-beginning/',0,'post','',0),(273,33,'2007-10-26 11:06:43','2007-10-26 17:06:43','<p><strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/26\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 10/22/2007]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>somewhere between seven &amp; eight\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision, Fax Machine installation<strong>)</strong>\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>The fax machine issue has been resolved!  Somehow, the principal was able to find the other box that came with the scanner, within which was elusive firmware card. I then installed it right away, and now the scanner and printer work!  Yay!\n\n Today in the lab, I added the printer script to all the computers and then put some instructions for how to print on the bulletin board, as well as computer lab rules and instructions for how to log in.  Hopefully this will further legitimize the computer lab as a serious working space. \n\nThe next step is cracking open these computers and/or re-installing Windows.  I expect to see at least some minor improvements in the coming week.  I\'d really like to supervise a class that comes to the computer lab, but I\'m not sure how that works out schedule-wise.\n\n That\'s all to report for now...\n\n<strong>Something to read:</strong> Engels - Working Class Manchester (it\'s good I promise, it\'s not just because I read it for SOSC.)','Mollison Week 2: Fax Firmware Resolution','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-week-2-fax-firmware-resolution','','','2007-10-26 11:06:43','2007-10-26 17:06:43','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/26/mollison-week-2-fax-firmware-resolution/',0,'post','',0),(274,10,'2007-11-17 16:45:19','2007-11-17 22:45:19','Your Name: Bryan Duff\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/10/26\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 3\n\nThe School: Bret Harte\n\nKind of Work: Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision, \n\nMain Report or Narrative: \n\nThe data switch to harte-srv01 seemed to go over pretty well.  Thanks to everyone in CUIP who came in to help point all the programs to the new location.  \n\nThe office printer is working again.  Apparently someone from OTS came in to fix it.\n\nRoom 208 desperately needs a new printer.  They\'re old one is officially dead.\n\nHas anyone ever heard anything about the effects of plugging a USB printer into a surge protector?  I read on HP.com that it causes the ink to blur, and that had been happening to a printer in 110 which was plugged in to a surge.  I\'ve switched it out and there was no immediate impact, but we\'ll see if anything happens.\n\nThe computer lab is in good shape.\n\nI made four or five other stops throughout the building today as well to do minor things (made desktop shortcuts, find files, etc).  Next week, the students are gone so I\'m planning on meeting with teachers who feel like they need help with anything.  This of course is consistent with the overall idea of making Bret Harte more self-reliant, which I think it\'s well on its way to being!\n\nThanks again for helping with the data move!','Bret Harte','','publish','open','closed','','bret-harte','','','2007-11-17 16:45:19','2007-11-17 22:45:19','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/17/bret-harte/',0,'post','',0),(275,40,'2007-10-26 14:59:37','2007-10-26 20:59:37','Your Name:Kevin Koll\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/10/26\n\nDay(s) worked or described:  W F\n\nTotal hours for week:6\n\nThe School:Price\n\nKind of Work: Helping Teacher, Lab supervision\n\nMain Report or Narrative\nThis week I helped Ms. Herron adminster a CPS computer skills survey. It involved setting up the laptop cart and computer lab as well as helping students when problems arose. For both days, the groups using the computers went on to work on their science fair projects. I helped them with online research. It was a nice change of pace to work with students, but I have a backlogged list of things to do including:\n<ul> Cleaning out the lab and MDF room\nGetting computers into different rooms\nFixing the 3 laptops that are broken\nInstalling an operating system and other software on the second laptop cart as well as dealing with coin cell battery issues\nFixing various computers that almost work\nIt\'s also been a while since I\'ve checked in on every classroom. I help teachers who ask me, or those who Ms. Herron knows need help, but there could be some people who have problems and haven\'t told anyone.\nAlso, Ms Herron almost has the printer working with the laptop cart, I meant to double check it today, but I ran out of time.</ul>\nRandom Observation: One of the questions on the survey was \"Which of these is the most harmful consequence for downloading music illegally\" Out of the answer options, my favorite was \"Running out of space on your hard drive\"','Price Week 5','','publish','open','closed','','1026','','','2007-10-26 14:59:37','2007-10-26 20:59:37','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/26/1026/',0,'post','',0),(276,34,'2007-10-26 15:22:13','2007-10-26 21:22:13','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/10/26\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: On Tuesday, I took a look at the computer\'s in room 105 to see what it would take to get them working. I\'ll have a quick look before I leave today, but expect to do some more work on those next Tuesday.  I believe the network is not working on one of them.\n\nWith some later help from Russ, the printers in room 103 are now working completely!\n\nRoom 106 needed a student computer set up - I mentioned in my last report that I kept getting a disk error and I was unable to boot into the BIOS. I opened up the machine and re-seated the hard drive; everything is now working excellently!\n\nMs. Ahad asked if I could set up some INSTR accounts for several students, and enable a few others. I looked at the AD User Management console and disabled and then re-enabled the select accounts. Nothing seems out of place--it\'s possible some of the students simply forgot their password, in which case I can reset those. I\'ll have Ms. Ahad check it out and keep me informed. What are the formats for student INSTR passwords?\n\nI was peaking around the computer lab and noticed a drive error on computer W14 - it didn\'t seem to be able to find any drives. I opened it up as well and re-seated the hard drive, and I\'m now getting a different error: \"A disk read error occurred.\" I will re-seat the drive again Tuesday and keep you informed.\n\nI was informed of an error in room 301 I was unable to duplicate, something about a user not having permission to save a file into their \"My Documents\" folder. I will keep an eye out.\n\nI was asked to take care of room 204, the teacher\'s lounge. One is a Windows 98 computer, the other (2K) one I hooked up and nabbed the mouse from the 98 computer. The 2K now seems to be working fine.\n\nI was told to take care of room 102, but I don\'t see an issue. It\'s possible a teacher may want a computer removed. I will ask for clarification.\n\nLast but not least, I checked up on room 207. I sent Mitch an email about power supply issues, and this is where it comes into play. I\'ll steal a power strip from elsewhere in the school and use it, hopefully avoiding having to use the lower outlets which I was advised against. One computer is missing a mouse, and the PS/2 port doesn\'t seem to be working too great. Please see my question below about extra equipment available to me.\n\nBasically, my biggest issue right now is to fix W14 in the computer lab on Tuesday morning, and then I\'ll get around to other teacher requests.\n\nA few questions:\n<ol>\n	<li>What extra equipment is available to me? Whatever I see in the room? I know there\'s paper and toner in the office, but in terms of USB mouses, PS/2 mouses, extra keyboards, extra power strips, extra power cords, etc...</li>\n	<li>What\'s the deal with Windows 98 computers?</li>\n	<li>I get this error when I login to the INSTR account bhyman4260. Any ideas? <a href=\"https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/bhyman/Public/tmp.JPG?uniq=-7ihmsc\">https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/bhyman/Public/tmp.JPG?uniq=-7ihmsc</a></li>\n</ol>\nMitch, I\'ll reply to your email ASAP!\n\nAlso, please note that I will be submitting a schedule revision: instead of Tuesday 8-10; 3:30 - 4:30 and Friday 1:30 - 3:30, I want to change to Tu. 8-10 and Fri. 1:15 - 4:15. I\'ve cleared this with Ms. Ahad and just have to run the paperwork through NSP, if that\'s okay with you.\n\nThanks much,\n\nBen Hyman','Week 5 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-5-canter','','','2007-10-26 15:22:13','2007-10-26 21:22:13','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/26/week-5-canter/',0,'post','',4),(277,2,'2007-10-26 17:35:15','2007-10-26 23:35:15','At our meeting a week or so ago, while waiting for the computer to do something, I posed the following puzzle, cribbed from Will Shortz:\n<blockquote><font color=\"#008000\">The letters in the name of a certain chemical element can be rearranged to form a word which is known to everyone here but which was not a recognized English word (or not attested in writing) ten years ago.</font></blockquote>\nA subsequent clue, as given to a few who have asked for one, was: the element is early in the periodic table, one of the first dozen.\n\nThe answer follows the \"more\" break.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nThe element is Nitrogen, and the recently-formed word it anagrams to is \"ringtone\".','anagram puzzle answer','','publish','open','closed','','anagram-puzzle-answer','','','2007-10-26 17:35:15','2007-10-26 23:35:15','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/26/anagram-puzzle-answer/',0,'post','',0),(278,2,'2007-10-26 17:58:12','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Here\'s the question I challenged some of you to work out while we were looking at the output of the <em>ipconfig</em> command on a Windows computer within the CPS network.\n\nEach school \"owns\" some range of CPS-internal (NATted) IP addresses, starting from the address of their gateway (router).  For instance, a random lab computer might show the <em>ipconfig</em> output of\n\nthis computer\'s IP address:     10.34.41.157\n\nSubnet mask:     255.255.240.0\n\nGateway: 10.34.32.0\n\nAt every other Instructional (classroom and lab) computer in the same school, the Gateway and Subnet Mask will be the same as shown.   The this-computer-IP-address will be different of course.  Going to a different school,','tech (networking) quiz question and answer','','draft','open','closed','','','','','2007-10-26 17:58:12','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/?p=278',0,'post','',0),(279,36,'2007-10-27 15:12:06','2007-10-27 21:12:06','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Sara Tamler\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/27\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W Θ F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>9\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Wadsworth Elementary\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Ms. Warden is working to get kids generally comfortable with the computer lab right now, so for a good chunk of the week I was helping in the lab, showing kids how to logon and navigate around the website they were on - \"Starfall.com\" for the younger kids, a learn-to-read website, and \"StudyIsland.com\" for the older kids, a standardized test prep site.\n\nWhile I wasn\'t in the classroom, Ms. Warden had me going to the different classrooms that have computers in them and checking on their functionality. Each room is supposed to have a teacher\'s computer connected to the internet and a printer, and at least two student computers with internet capabilities. It\'s been slow work - the computers I\'ve seen so far have been extremely old and slow, and many don\'t have working internet. There seems to be a problem on a lot of them where they don\'t recognize either the mouse or the keyboard or both...sometimes the device isn\'t enabled in the control panel, but sometimes the computer doesn\'t recognize the plug-and-play driver. The ones that connect via USB cables don\'t have as many problems as those that connect through the mouse or keyboard port. Haven\'t been able to figure it out yet.\nAlso, I\'ve come across a few computers that are connected to a printer but won\'t register the device. The driver to recognize the printer port wasn\'t installed, so I went onto the printer manufacturer\'s website (it\'s an HP DeskJet 930C) to download the driver. The computer is a Windows 98, and when I tried to download the software for that operating system, I just got this notice saying that HP doesn\'t supply the software for Windows 98 anymore...out of date or problems with Microsoft viruses or something like that. So either those computers have to be updated, or there\'s no reason for the printers to be in those rooms...they won\'t ever be able to work.\n\nThe last thing I was working on this week was troubleshooting the laptop carts Wadsworth has...they have 60 new-as-of-last-year Dell laptops, but about a quarter of them haven\'t been charging. It\'s absolutely obviously one of the carts\' power strip, but we\'re making sure it\'s not the chargers or the computers themselves...seems like overkill to both me and Ms. Warden, but her higher-up told her to. The laptops are also being kind of iffy about signing onto the school\'s network...their wireless is fine, but some of them will come up with script errors about the network...\n\nGood week overall!','Wadsworth Week 5','','publish','open','closed','','wadsworth-week-5','','','2007-10-27 15:12:06','2007-10-27 21:12:06','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/27/wadsworth-week-5/',0,'post','',1),(280,39,'2007-10-27 21:19:12','2007-10-28 03:19:12','Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/10/27\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W F\n\nTotal hours for week: 6\n\nThe School: Woodlawn\n\nKind of Work: (Tech general)\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\n\n1.  Wire Routing in the Computer Lab: I can now use cables ties in my sleep with only one hand.  Three of four-and-a-half rows of computers are in some semblance of order.\n\n2. Laptop Updates: In theory, at least--Russ came on Wednesday and we attempted to begin updating Woodlawn\'s charmingly under-memoried laptop fleet.  In one half of an hour, the two laptops we were using booted and we were able to open a web browser.  First update to download: new updating software.\n\n3. TechKnow Inventory: our 16 computers and 20-some monitors work--for the most part, at least.  TechKnow is starting this coming Monday; I am going to try to come in on Wednesday afternoons until TechKnow is in full swing, when I\'ll be in on Monday and Wednesday afternoons, van permitting.','Woodlawn--Week 5','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-5','','','2007-10-27 21:19:12','2007-10-28 03:19:12','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/27/woodlawn-week-5/',0,'post','',0),(281,41,'2007-10-28 22:48:27','2007-10-29 04:48:27','<strong>Your Name: Han Zhu\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/28\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 5 (6 if you count Next Steps)\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Lab supervision\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nThis was my first week, so I didn\'t do a whole lot. Monday I went with Sara and got introduced to the assistant principal, the school, some of the teachers, and my school contact/general computer guy at the school, Mr. Willis. I learned I\'m supposed to be working on teacher blogs for the 6th grade science fair, some literary review blogs, and just general blogs for updating the parents.\n\nWednesday and Friday I spent time in the lab helping Mr. Willis supervise his computer classes. I learned about Orchard, which is Shoesmith\'s math/reading/writing learning and testing software program and helped students with login problems and the like. I also spent some time experimenting with Wordpress to get myself ready to help the teachers with their blogs and looked at some of the Shoesmith teachers\' blogs. I set up a time to meet with one teacher, Mrs. Coleman, about her literary blog next week on Friday- she wants to set up blogs for all of her students so they can write to each other about the books they read. The only problem I\'ve run into is that on Friday, right before I was about to leave, 5 of the computers in the lab lost their network connection (network cable disconnected) and I reconnected the cables and rebooted the computers to no avail, so I\'m wondering what else I can do about those on Monday.\n\n<strong>(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: Shakespeare\'s A Winter\'s Tale (here\'s a preview: one of the stage directions is \"Exit, pursued by a bear\") </strong>','Week 5 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-5-at-shoesmith','','','2007-10-28 22:48:27','2007-10-29 04:48:27','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/28/week-5-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',0),(282,35,'2007-10-28 23:57:44','2007-10-29 05:57:44','<strong>Your Name: Zhang Zhang\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/29\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M, W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 4 </strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Ray </strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nThings are settling down at Ray Elementary, and there are less new requests to fix computers. There are still a few erratic cases that pertain especially to older desktops, where the computer does not accept the master password, thus preventing me from making any changes. One such computer needs to have Windows re-installed, as explorer.exe will not load. (is the teacher user account data saved locally or on a network mount?) Regarding the techco account, I am finding that way too many teachers at Ray know this user account and password, and some computers were even logged on as techco to begin with. (This may become a stability problem for these computers, if teachers or students modify their configuration.)\n\nThe computer lab is fully functional, but is seeing very little use--the only teacher using it being Ms. Cobb, who currently maintains exclusive access. Apparently, there is also a conflict related to ownership of computer lab keys, which both the office and Ms. Cobb claim.\n\nI am still trying to find a way to go through Dell for two broken computers, both of which are still under warranty.','Week Five at Ray','','publish','open','closed','','week-five-at-ray','','','2007-10-28 23:57:44','2007-10-29 05:57:44','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/28/week-five-at-ray/',0,'post','',1),(283,37,'2007-10-29 00:33:11','2007-10-29 06:33:11','<strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/28\n\nReporting about5th Week\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W, F (12:30 - 3:30)\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi Elementary School\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work: </strong>Tech General, Helping Teacher\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Upon arriving on Wednesday, I was presented with the problem of three computers that wouldn\'t accept the Deep Freeze password, making software installations impossible.  Luckily, Mitch showed me how to \"ghost\" machines, which allowed me to work around the problem.  I tried one on Wednesday, and did the other two on Friday.  Also on Wednesday, I used the same ghosting technique to fix a computer that just wasn\'t booting at all.  A teacher also wanted help getting the internet up and running on a computer that was far from any outlet.  Unfortunately, the long cord that I had was broken.\n\nOn Friday, I basically finished up everything that I started on Wednesday.  I finished ghosting the computers and running the compliance scripts. (I think they are up to code, someone check my work!)  I also moved a printer from Dr. Sanders\' office to the exterior office.  After plugging it into the new computer and finding the correct drivers on the HP website, it worked fine! The office people said that it didn\'t need to be shared, but if it does, I can set that up next week.  Finally, I snuck into room 120, where the teacher had wanted internet for her computer, and finally got that working.  I even found a way to lay the cable so that it won\'t be in anyone\'s way. (A well-threaded cable is a beautiful thing, folks)\n\nAll in all, it was pretty satisfying, because I resolved some problems and got things working.','Week 5 at Fermi (From Dana\'s Side)','','publish','open','closed','','week-5-at-fermi-from-danas-side','','','2007-10-29 00:33:11','2007-10-29 06:33:11','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/29/week-5-at-fermi-from-danas-side/',0,'post','',1),(284,38,'2007-10-29 08:13:56','2007-10-29 14:13:56','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/29\n\n[Week or date reporting about, if not most recent week: 2007/10/20-26]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T <strong>W</strong> Θ<strong> F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6-ish</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi Elementary</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, organization\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nOn Monday, I reported to Fermi and found that the school was basically an infertile, windswept tundra with respect to tech requests. Undaunted by the distressing fact that all of Fermi\'s computers seemed to be working perfectly, I made up my own project. Shaz and I had talked about someday in the distant future numbering all of the computers in the computer lab, so I seized the day and some construction paper and got to work.\n\nOn Wednesday, Fermi was back to normal tech-request-wise (to my extreme relief -- i wasn\'t sure whether spending my time <strong>re</strong>numbering the computer lab would be an appropriate use of NSP\'s funds). I helped Ms. Love with her classroom computers -- both were just turned off, and one wasn\'t connected to a land line. I extracted an unused speaker from the jungle of cables beneath the computer desk and brought it over to Dr. Sima, who had asked if I could find any speakers for him so his kids could use a reading website (Starfox? Starpower? Starburst?). I then helped one of the teachers in 106 install a Winnie the Pooh program on her classroom computers, and messed around with Ms. Alexander\'s computer (in 120) in an attempt to make it stop randomly turning off. My solution was to turn off the screensaver, which seems to have worked like a charm! Very exciting.\n\nOn Friday, Shaz, Sara, Joe, and Mitch all showed up at Fermi of their own accord and we met with Dr. Sanders about her plans for the Media Center we\'ll be putting together in one corner of the computer lab. She talked about having the stacks of lonely monitors moved out of the computer lab by that afternoon, but as of 9:08am they are still sitting here, staring at me like little lost kittens. My plan for today is thus to mess around with the giant cabinet full of castoff computers, and to maybe clean the whiteboard again. Does anyone have any time-honored home remedies for persisent ghosting and general schmutziness?','Five at Fermi? Fantastic.','','publish','open','closed','','four-at-fermi-fantastic','','','2007-10-29 08:13:56','2007-10-29 14:13:56','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/29/four-at-fermi-fantastic/',0,'post','',1),(286,42,'2007-10-31 09:21:22','2007-10-31 15:21:22','<strong>Your Name:</strong><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/31 Happy Halloween!\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M  W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:</strong><strong> 4</strong>\n\n<strong>The School:</strong><strong> Emmett Till</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, figuring things out\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This is my first real day of work, so I mostly figured out the school and refamiliarized myself with PCs. I helped some teachers archive their e-mails before CPS switches to Firstclass.  To this end, I wrote a how-to sheet for teachers\' use after I leave for the day. I also read a Halloween story to first graders.--it\'s nice when people are that easy to please. I figure that next week I\'ll be helping faculty figure out Firstclass, which I have experience with. I\'ll also be helping the 3rd graders with their Dinosaur project research.  <strong></strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>Thought for the week:</strong> Dressing up for Halloween never, ever, not in a million years gets old. In fact, the older you get and the better materials you have access to, the more fantastic your costume should be! So dress up everyone!\n\nQuestion for the week: Why are non-Macs called PCs? Are not all computers personal? And does \"PC\" refer to laptops? All laptops? Just non-Macs? I know this is basic, but it just doesn\'t make sense.','Trick Or Treat!','','publish','open','closed','','trick-or-treat','','','2007-10-31 09:21:22','2007-10-31 15:21:22','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/10/31/trick-or-treat/',0,'post','',1),(287,33,'2007-11-02 11:02:52','2007-11-02 17:02:52','<p><strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/2\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 10/29/2007]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>somewhere between seven &amp; eight\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision, First Class seminar<strong>)</strong>\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Now all but two computers are working in the computer lab.  One core issue remains.  The lab needs mice!  And ethernet cables.  But mostly it needs mice.  I also need to look into getting a new hard drive for one of the computers. \n\n Some sad news to report: The printer network that I spent so much time setting up seems to have had a wrench thrown into its gears.  All the computers are capable of printing to this particular computer, but the printer itself has decided not to print.  All this has solidified my previously wavering hatred of printers.  I hate printers.  Shaz told me this would happen and assures me that they are irrational beasts that are often impossible to tame.  Well, that\'s just irritating.  So, unless I can fix this printer, the lab will need one of those too.  :\n\nA note for Mitch: the servers in the lab should all be connected to the network now. \n\nIn other news, I met a majority of the teachers here who happen to range the entire spectrum of teachers that I\'ve ever had in my life, including the weird ones.  ;)  Should be an interesting experience.  I suppose the first thing to do is get them all \"in to\" getting their kids in the lab and using the technology.  I guess what I need to do is continue to \"beautify\" the lab, because it\'s still looking pretty shabby.\n\nSeems like I have a lot of work ahead of me. \n\n<strong>Something to read:</strong> I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert','Mollison Week 6: The Rise of the Machines','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-week-6-the-rise-of-the-machines','','','2007-11-02 11:02:52','2007-11-02 17:02:52','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/02/mollison-week-6-the-rise-of-the-machines/',0,'post','',1),(288,41,'2007-11-04 14:14:48','2007-11-04 20:14:48','<strong>Your Name: Han Zhu</strong><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/02<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W  F<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong><strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong><strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Project Prep, Helping Teacher<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>Monday Sara came and we went around to more teachers. There\'s a lot I haven\'t met yet, but the good news is that we managed to track down Ms. Coffee, who had an active blog last year but seems to have stopped using it because she has three and can\'t figure out which one she\'s supposed to be using or something like that. I\'m going to make some time next week to sit down with her and consolidate her blogs and get her new one for this year up and running. There\'s also two more potential teachers who want blogs - the librarian Kathy whose last name I never found out and Ms. Lee the spanish teacher.Wednesday I sat down with Ms. Lee and fleshed out ideas with her. Mostly she wants a blog to set up Spanish vocabulary lists on, which I\'ve informed Sara about. Also, for the springtime, her kids do country projects with display boards, which I think will translate over really well to the blog world. I want to start working on it now, though, so I can gather everything I need to document the projects in progress over the month they work on them. Can anyone tell me what program NSP uses for recording podcasts again? I forgot after Sara mentioned it. I\'d like to start experimenting with it now, though. Also, is there anyway to get my hands on a digital camera and a microphone when the time comes? If there\'s not a camera, that\'s fine, I\'ll just use my own. But I have no mic. After talking with Ms. Lee, I sat down to start creating Mrs. Coleman\'s student blogs. I was trying to create all the student accounts on learnerblogs with one email address, but found that it wouldn\'t let me. Does anyone know of a way to bypass this? I couldn\'t figure it out, so I tried other blogging sites and ran into the same problem. My alternative is that I\'ve found another blogging site - classblogmeister - that will let me accomplish what I want, but I worry about having teachers switch interfaces now that most of them are comfortable with wordpress. Suggestions?Friday there were no students and I had a hard time meeting with teachers because they had mandatory meetings and then they had to work on report cards so they were not very approachable. Instead, I continued my quest to find a suitable blogging site. I did manage to go through one of the classblogmeister site that another teacher had used with a 3rd grade class with Mrs. Coleman and she liked it, so maybe that will be the alternative if I can\'t get learnerblogs to work the way I want it to. Also, I installed/updated adobe acrobat reader onto a couple of computers because Mr. Willis said it was needed for report cards (??). I also looked through the AR database, which is completely outdated and has teachers and students who aren\'t even at the school anymore. If I can get my hands on a complete student/teacher list next week, I\'ll be spending some time updating that.','Week 6 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-6-at-shoesmith','','','2007-11-04 14:14:48','2007-11-04 20:14:48','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/04/week-6-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',3),(289,34,'2007-11-02 13:59:40','2007-11-02 19:59:40','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/11/02\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 4 (See note below)\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: On Tuesday, I fixed W14, which was having issues the previous week. It turned out that the latest error was a BIOS problem. However, the CD drive is neither opening nor being picked up by Windows. I spent a significant amount of time on Friday taking a look inside; I connected a cable that looked like it should have been connected, and the CD-drive opened...once! I\'m still encountering problems...I\'m going to take an even closer look this upcoming Tuesday. It\'s good hardware practice, though.\n\nAlso Tuesday, Mitch stopped by and we looked at some INSTR user policies stuff. I\'ll see what happens if further student login issues arise. I still need to ask Ms. Ahad for teacher emails and for her to distribute my email among the teachers.\n\nI had stopped by CUIP headquarters Wednesday and picked up three mice and two power strips. This Friday, I used two of the mice and one of the power strips in room 207 -- all five computers are now operational, although I had to steal a spare keyboard from computer lab 302 to get one of the 98 computers working. For reference, the Compaq mouse furthest to the left, and the mouse on the Dell all the way on the right, belong to CUIP, as does the power strip on the floor.\n\nW14, which is certainly my biggest problem child so far, had a mouse without a ball. I used the third mouse from CUIP on that. Like I said, this computer seems to be a worthy adversary!\n\nAlso Friday, I was asked to set up a printer so that a few other computers in the room could print to it. Since this wasn\'t a network printer, I couldn\'t set up an IP port. I enabled printer sharing on the locally connected computer (which, by the way, doesn\'t have a techco account ... is that something I can address?), and was able to connect to the computer/printer on a networked  machine, both as local techco and logged in as bhyman4260 on INSTR. However, this is not suitable, since I wasn\'t able to <em>add</em> the printer on a permanent basis, and non-privileged INSTR users (which includes the staff) won\'t be able to use this method. Mitch/Russ, any ideas? Note that I didn\'t install the printer using the \"Add Printers\" window, since there was no option for connecting to a computer using its IP address. Should I try and do more research?\n\nI\'m helping one of the special ed. teachers set up a blog, but I think I need to work with Mitch to set up a subdomain, correct?\n\nI knew this Friday was a staff day, but today specifically, that meant I had to leave at 3:00. Since time cards were due this past Wednesday, that means I\'ll be paid for 1 hour for which I did not work. I will adjust Tuesday\'s time card accordingly ... do I need to let someone in NSP know this as well, or just adjust my time card?\n\nI checked a few computers to see whether or not the generic INSTR login worked, and may or may not continue this process on Tuesday. It\'s mostly equivalent to checking whether the Internet connection works on a given computer.\n\nAs for the upcoming week, I will probably just bite the bullet and find a way to label all the computers, but I\'ll probably need to produce some other work as well!\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 6 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-6-canter','','','2007-11-02 13:59:40','2007-11-02 19:59:40','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/02/week-6-canter/',0,'post','',1),(290,38,'2007-11-02 16:09:13','2007-11-02 22:09:13','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/02\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M<strong> </strong> W  F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi Elementary</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, training\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nOh, the humanity! I\'m starting to have nightmares about that herd of hulking, derelict monitors, staring eyelessly at me as they lurk on the floor where Fermi\'s media center should be. This actually isn\'t a huge deal, since Dr. Sanders hasn\'t really given me any concrete ideas on what she wants the layout of the media center to be, but it would be nice to see some progress on this project. Due to an unfortunate combination of circumstances (both Dr. Sanders and Mr. Taylor were out all Wednesday morning, so I couldn\'t access the laptops in the vault <strong>or </strong>the Publisher CD conveniently stashed in Dr. Sanders\' office) I spent Monday and Wednesday futzing around with the giant cabinet of computers. Some have Windows 98 (Mitch -- I got your comment about ghosting and will talk to Sarah about it the next time I see her), and almost all of them were stuffed to the brim with every single game produced by Yahoo ever. My favorite computer, though, was probably the one that had 9 different editions of a teacher\'s resume on it. Apparently, CPS isn\'t good enough for him -- he was looking for positions as a casting assistant in Florida and a \"wine director\" somewhere in the suburbs of Chicago (what does that entail? \"move that wine over here! no, wait...the southwest corner! look pouty, chardonnay!\").  Most importantly, a good number of them are functional, which was generally encouraging.\n\nFriday picked up considerably. I sat in on Shaz\'s teacher development session on FirstClass so that I can swoop in and save damsels/dudes in e-mail related distress. It seems like a pretty easy program to work with, and there actually might be some neat off-label applications that we can discover and pass on to the teachers (for example, Ms. Stokley was really into using the calendar to make a homework schedule for her kids). I then investigated a printer problem that Mr. Orekoya is having, which started out with \"this PDF form is printing faintly\" and eventually ended up at \"this printer\'s menus are all in Afrikaans or Finnish or Middle English or something and we should probably reinstall it so I can actually help you\". The problem was actually an interestingly difficult-to-fix one: does anyone know how to change the color of the words you fill in on PDF forms? All in all, today was really good -- I got to talk to a lot of teachers I hadn\'t yet met, and I hopefully can start helping them out more now that they know who I am!','Fermi, Episode 6: The Case of the Mouldering Monitors','','publish','open','closed','','fermi-episode-6-the-case-of-the-mouldering-monitors','','','2007-11-02 16:09:13','2007-11-02 22:09:13','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/02/fermi-episode-6-the-case-of-the-mouldering-monitors/',0,'post','',1),(291,10,'2007-11-03 14:01:18','2007-11-03 20:01:18','Bryan DuffBret Harte ElementaryFriday: 12:30-3:30Tech GeneralThings went pretty well at Bret Harte.  I made a lotof progressing getting to know the teachers and askingif there were any specific concerns with any of thetechnology.  The good news is that there were not.The bad news is obviously the wide spread AR dataissues.  I asked each teacher if they were havingproblems, and I fixed those computers in question.Three or four teacheres told me not to worry about itbecause they never use any sort of AR program.  Ifthere wasn\'t a teacher in the room, I went ahead andchecked the machines anyway.I also made it through the lab fixing the datalocations.  At this point, you ought to be wonderinghow I was so proficient.  The first reason is thattoday was inservice, so there were no kids on anymachines.  The second reason is the one I sent in anemail earlier:\"If you open \\harte-srv01, provide the login, andsave it before openingany of the AR / Star programs, there\'s no need to goand re-point the datalocation.  This makes sense on an intuitive level tome: it doesn\'t knowit\'s missing until you run the program, so if you canopen the serverfolder before it looks for it, then the program willhave never known itto be missing.More on this in the report.  To my knowledge (relyingon what teachershave told me), I\'ve reset all of the programs in theschool other than thelab, which I am starting on now.\"So that happened today, which is good.  I told Ms.Evans to keep me posted if there are any other issuesthat come up.Also, when I made it around the lab today, I didn\'tget the impression that it was in as bad of shape as Ihad read in an email earlier this week.  I only foundone mouse that wasn\'t working (it could be themachine\'s fault, I didn\'t have time to really check)and one other machine that didn\'t turn on.  I didn\'ttest any headphones, so maybe things are a lot worsethan they seem to me.All in all, things were good today.  I answered a lotof little questions to several teachers (i.e. how tochange the desktop wallpaper) which was good.  Thisall hopefully moves in the direction of making BretHarte more self-reliant.Thanks!Bryan','Week 6 at Harte','','publish','open','closed','','week-6-at-harte','','','2007-11-03 14:01:18','2007-11-03 20:01:18','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/03/week-6-at-harte/',0,'post','',0),(292,39,'2007-11-03 14:22:59','2007-11-03 20:22:59','Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/11/3\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W F\n\nTotal hours for week: 5\n\nThe School: Woodlawn\n\nKind of Work: (Tech general)\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\n\n1. Wire Routing in the Computer Lab (continued): I finished routing wires in the computer lab on Friday.  I will be paying more classroom visits now that the lab looks less like a horrific pasta-maker accident.\n\n2. TechKnow: On Monday, I inventoried the peripheral devices for our TechKnow computers.  The TechKnow program started last Wednesday; I was able to come in for an hour.  I will be in for two hours in the following weeks, and begin coming in on Monday and Wednesday afternoons once computer dissassembly gets into full swing (the week after next, by Ms. Johnson\'s estimate).','Woodlawn: Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-6','','','2007-11-03 14:22:59','2007-11-03 20:22:59','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/03/woodlawn-week-6/',0,'post','',1),(299,33,'2007-11-09 11:40:43','2007-11-09 17:40:43','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/9\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 11/5/2007]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>somewhere between seven &amp; eight\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab maintenance)\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nCertainly, this week at Mollison was not 7th heaven by any stretch of the imagination.  Monday was relatively calm, so much so I\'ve entirely forgotten what I did on Monday.  Basically, I think I fixed the computers in the back office, or rather diagnosed one as trash and the other I managed to get working.  It must have been really uneventful.\n\nEven if it did have events, it was entirely overshadowed by the fiasco of Wednesday.  Imagine this scene:  I calmly walk in to sign in, and Mrs. Otiki (at the front desk) let\'s me know that computers aren\'t working in 101, 102, 103, 104.   She also lets me know that someone from CPS came in to \"update the system\" and went into the MDF room and did something. \n\nSo, I proceed to figure out why these computers aren\'t working.  And they all have the same problem: no IP address.  Well, thankfully Mitch and Joe arrived to save the day.  Only, they didn\'t.  :(  The three of us were unable to do anything to fix the problem...turning the power supply on the servers off and on didn\'t fix anything.  And that\'s about all we felt comfortable changing.  So, we spent the rest of the time in the dark computer lab discussing the protocol for ghosting one of the No-Names or Eagle Views.\n\nThere were dark times at Mollison on Wednesday and part of Thursday.  No classrooms had access to the internet or even standard CPS services like FirstClass and Impact.  Apparently, our phone call to CPS was not enough to get an engineer out to Mollison to fix the problem they created on Wednesday.  But, someone came in on Thursday and plugged something in somewhere to fix the network.\n\nAnd, indeed, the computers are back online.  However, that ominous orange light still remains in the MDF room.\n\nAs for today, I discussed some project ideas with the art teacher, and also mentioned to the principal and VP the notion of getting Deep Freeze in the lab.  This would prevent sneakers being continually tiled as desktop wallpapers.  Among other things anyway.\n\n <strong>Something to read:</strong> the palm of your hand (predict your fate!!)','Mollison: 7th Heaven?','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-7th-heaven','','','2007-11-09 11:40:43','2007-11-09 17:40:43','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/09/mollison-7th-heaven/',0,'post','',0),(293,36,'2007-11-04 12:07:34','2007-11-04 18:07:34','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Sara Tamler\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/04\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W Θ\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>5 1/2\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Wadsworth\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:  </strong>I continued inventorying  computers in classrooms this week. Still having problems with mouse and keyboard recognition, but it\'s only on a few computers. There are three computers in one classroom that appear newer than in most of the other ones, but their harddrives are so completely full they don\'t even have enough disk space to allow me to uninstall programs. There\'s also a computer that keeps overheating - it needs a new fan.\n\nOther than that, not much to report. I like working with the little kids who don\'t know how the mouse works, and who make me birthday cake out of building blocks when it\'s not my birthday...','Wadsworth Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','wadsworth-week-6','','','2007-11-04 12:07:34','2007-11-04 18:07:34','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/04/wadsworth-week-6/',0,'post','',0),(294,37,'2007-11-04 23:24:05','2007-11-05 05:24:05','<strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/04\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W F (12:30-3:30)\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi Elementary\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech General, Project Prep\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nOn Wednesday, I initially had difficulty tracking down the disk for Publisher, which needed to be installed on the computers in the Teacher\'s Resource Room.  It turned out to be in a drawer in Dr. Sanders\' office, so I was able to do the installations after that.  For the second half of my time, I looked at three old laptops to make sure that our notes about them were accurate.  They were, but that is not a good thing.  One of them has no operating system, but it probably couldn\'t handle anything above Windows 95 anyway.  The second has Windows 95 installed, but it is ill-configured in some way, so it crashes upon startup.  Again, it probably couldn\'t support anything beyond that.  The last computer is most promising.  It is running Windows 98, and it actually works.  The problem is that it can\'t easily connect to the internet.  I saw that someone had at one point attempted to rig up a complex system to allow it to do so, but a vital piece was missing, so I couldn\'t test it out.  It might be possible to get Windows 2000 on it, but I wouldn\'t swear to it.\n\nOn Friday, there were no kids around, so all was quiet.  I had the task of installing and networking a printer in the Teacher\'s Resource Room.  I was able to rig it up so all four working computers in the room can print from the printer, thanks in no small part to Mitch\'s excellent guide on the CUIP techwiki.  Figuring that all out took up most of my time, but I was able to install Publisher on one more teacher\'s computer before I left.  I also took another look at Mr. Orekoya\'s (sp?)  problem with his printer printing too lightly, and I still couldn\'t figure it out.  The fact that the menus are in some foreign language didn\'t help.  I know that Emily has been trying to figure it out too, so hopefully we will get it soon.  In the meantime, he might be able to print from the Teacher\'s Resource Room.\n\nAll in all, it was a good week, because the Teacher\'s Resource Room has Publisher and a printer now, making it ideal for teacher\'s projects.','Week 6 at Fermi (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','week-6-at-fermi-dana','','','2007-11-04 23:24:05','2007-11-05 05:24:05','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/04/week-6-at-fermi-dana/',0,'post','',1),(295,40,'2007-11-05 11:37:42','2007-11-05 17:37:42','Your Name:Kevin Koll\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/11/05\n\nDay(s) worked or described: W F\n\nTotal hours for week:6\n\nThe School:Price\n\nKind of Work: Tech repair, inservice\n\nMain Report or Narrative: On Wednesday I was in several classrooms making sure computers were functioning. I checked in with the Gearup folks who were having trouble with a laptop ac adapter as well as missing a printer usb cable. I thought there was a spare ac adapter in the pile of junk in 212, but it didn\'t work. I put a computer in 302, but the monitor was a bit funny. Some of the ones that were kept in MDF are turning out to be duds, so I\'m going to go through the pile again and find some more working ones. On Friday I helped out with the first class inservice and gave Nathaniel a brief tour.','Price Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','price-week-6-2','','','2007-11-05 11:37:42','2007-11-05 17:37:42','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/05/price-week-6-2/',0,'post','',0),(296,35,'2007-11-05 14:55:09','2007-11-05 20:55:09','<strong>Your Name: Zhang Zhang\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/05\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W (1:30-3:30) F 9:00-11:30\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6.5</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Ray Elementary\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech General\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nThings are slowing down in terms of technical problems.  We still need to go Dell Warranty for two broken computers in Room 307 and 413 though.  How would I help in doing that? Would Dell request any records or documentation?\n\nOther than that, perhaps it is a good time to start planning projects that utilize the computer lab?','Week 6: Ray School','','publish','open','closed','','week-6-ray-school','','','2007-11-05 14:55:09','2007-11-05 20:55:09','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/05/week-6-ray-school/',0,'post','',0),(297,8,'2007-11-05 17:41:49','2007-11-05 23:41:49','Erin\n2007/11/05\nWeek reporting about, if not most recent week: Weeks 3-6\nDay(s) worked or described: M W F \nTotal hours for week: varied\nThe School: Till\nKind of Work: Project Prep, Helping Teacher\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Gmail was filtering my reporting reminder to my spam box, so it\'s totally slipped my mind to do reports the last few weeks. Sorry! \n\nAt Till, I\'ve been working on a project for the third graders who are doing online research for a monthly project. October was dinosaur month! I combed Mrs. Jacobson\'s resources and found the 10 most relevant, accessible sites and saved them on a del.icio.us account, so that students wouldn\'t need to type them out individually or try googling on their own (both of which can quickly reach catastrophic intensity very quickly with third graders). There will be one such site each month (I might work something out with tags to minimize redundancy) linked from a collective that students will be able to access through Mrs. Sudduth\'s Student Resource page. Less typing for third graders=less headaches for teachers. I talked to Mrs. White about the project, too, and I think she\'ll be working with the site as well.\n\nI\'ve been working on the CUIP news site here and there also-- once-weekly super-secret basement-bunker meetings with Shaz and Joe to coordinate resources and plans.\n\nWhat’s playing now?: Pixies, clearly.','Where is My Mind?','','publish','open','closed','','where-is-my-mind','','','2007-11-05 17:41:49','2007-11-05 23:41:49','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/05/where-is-my-mind/',0,'post','',0),(298,24,'2007-11-08 21:50:45','2007-11-09 03:50:45','Ariel HafftkaThursday, 11/08/07School: EntrepreneurshipTech General2.5 hoursMain report:Today I deployed a Mac OS Tiger image onto 4 eMacs in Bill Weekes\' room (216).  I used the Tiger install CD\'s Disk Utility to create an image of a computer with licensed copies of Tiger, PhotoShop, and MS Office; and then copied the image onto a 2gigabyte memory stick.  Once started up from the CD, it takes only a few minutes to install the 1.6gigabyte image from the memory stick.There were two problems in Ms. Monroe\'s room (211) I couldn\'t figure out, so if anyone has already seen this please let me know.  (1) On one computer, the START menu is completely absent and changing the preferences in the control panel does not  make it appear.  (2) I can\'t find out what the IP address is for the printer HP LaserJet 2100TN.  I tried pressing the button on the printer, but it only prints out a sheet describing the printer but lacking any network information.','eMac imaging successful & two unrelated problems','','publish','open','closed','','emac-imaging-successful-two-unrelated-problems','','','2007-11-08 21:50:45','2007-11-09 03:50:45','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/08/emac-imaging-successful-two-unrelated-problems/',0,'post','',1),(300,41,'2007-11-09 18:34:03','2007-11-10 00:34:03','<strong>Your Name: Han Zhu</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 11/9/2007\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:6 </strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech for Project\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>There\'s not much for me to describe. Basically, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have spent all/most of my time updating the AR database here. I\'m hoping I will be done adding student info by next Wednesday (I was aiming for Monday, but I forgot it was Veteran\'s day and we don\'t come in) and then Friday I can set up the teacher accounts and assign students to classes and then AR will be ready to go.\n\nI also updated the Shoesmith school website with the teacher blogs on Monday, but I only did the ones I knew (kindergarten, Coleman, Corbin, and Coffee). Is there any way for me to see a complete list of Shoesmith\'s blogs?\n\nWednesday I dropped in on Sara\'s meeting with Ms. Washington and talked with her about her projects, so those are being set in motion, I think.\n\nAlso, Sara asked me if I wanted to come in Tuesday morning and that\'s fine with me (I was thinking 7:45-9:45 am.) Do I need to make this known at NSP or CUIP or.. ??\n\nI had another question, but I completely forgot what it was, so I\'ll probably edit this post later with it.','Week 7 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-7-at-shoesmith','','','2007-11-09 18:34:03','2007-11-10 00:34:03','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/09/week-7-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',1),(301,34,'2007-11-09 16:08:33','2007-11-09 22:08:33','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/11/09\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5 (listed as 4 on timecard, see note on previous entry)\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: On Tuesday, I spent a fair amount of time on printer scripting in room 207. I communicated with Mitch and Russ on specific instructional problems I had with this and the wiki, but I got everything fixed in the end. It was quite the intriguing and educational challenge! I also futzed around with the CD drive on what used to be W14 under the old naming system, but is now known and labeled as C2. I discovered Tuesday there was nothing wrong with the actual reader, since I booted from a Linux LiveCD just fine.\n\nFriday, I met with Mitch and we talked of many things; specifically, there was some discussion about ADUC and organizational units, and we went over some things about printer scripting and whatnot. Though I may not be able to write it all here, fear not, as I\'ve successfully internalized it all. We also set up a blog for a teacher who requested it, and I\'ll be working on that with her this upcoming Tuesday.\n\nAlso Friday, I successfully fixed the CD drive! Still not sure what was up with it, but for now, it\'s opening consistently and Windows is picking it up. The only thing I did today unusual was to put the paper-clip inside the hole and push it around a bit, but that no longer has to be done every time. Maybe it was a mechanical thing?\n\nI started the process of labeling every computer, and I\'ve done three rows so far. I used blue and pink post-it notes and scotch tape. What follows is a map from the old naming convention to the new one.\n\nW1 - W6: A1 - A6\nW7 - W12: B1 - B6\nW13 - W18: (will be) C1 - C6\nS1 - S5: D1 - D5\nS6 - S10: E1-E6\n\nIn other words, every row along a wall, as well as the two rows in the center of the room, get a unique letter. I alternated post-it colors and whatnot, but it should be easy to identify regardless. I went ahead and edited the descriptions on A1 - A6, B1 - B6, D1 - D6, and the ones I could do in row E. I\'ll finish up the labeling job on Tuesday.\n\nMitch told me about a profile memory issue that\'s been appearing throughout CPS schools. I told him that one of the computers in room 207 was suffering the same problem, and I\'ll wait to hear back on what I should do about that. I DID NOT TELL HIM because I found out afterwards that what is now E4 (previously S9) is having the same problem as well.\n\nE1 may or may not be working, but I didn\'t have the chance to check. It\'s powered off and the case is not completely on, so there you go.\n\nAll in all, a productive week. Tuesday I\'ll be working with a teacher on a wiki/blog, and I can finish the labeling process. I also want to coordinate with Ms. Ahad about disseminating my email to all the teachers, and getting a list of their emails so that I can better communicate with them as need be. As far as I understand, that\'s all of the work out of the way, so I\'ll need to figure out something to work on for next Friday.\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 7 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-7-canter','','','2007-11-09 16:08:33','2007-11-09 22:08:33','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/09/week-7-canter/',0,'post','',1),(302,35,'2007-11-09 17:03:53','2007-11-09 23:03:53','Not much is new for this week - all systems are working properly.  I installed some additional memory into serveral of the old IBM Netvista machines. (128MB really is not enough for the background processes running on these machines.)  \n\nI look forward to working on projects utilizing the computer lab.','Week 7: Ray Elementary','','publish','open','closed','','week-7-ray-elementary','','','2007-11-09 17:03:53','2007-11-09 23:03:53','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/09/week-7-ray-elementary/',0,'post','',0),(303,8,'2007-11-09 22:29:56','2007-11-10 04:29:56','Erin\n\n2007/11/09\n\nDay(s) worked or described: W\n\nTotal hours for week: 1\n\nThe School: Woodlawn\n\nKind of Work: Project Prep\n\nMain Report or Narrative: I stopped by Woodlawn on Wednesday to do some investigative reporting on their TechKnow program. It looks pretty solid-- the fifth and sixth graders were able to stay pretty well on task, even with a shiny new college student running around and asking questions. By and large they seem pretty excited about the program-- next week they get to crack open the cases and find out how the guts of their computers work. I told Ms. Johnson I\'d be stopping by again in a few weeks to follow up with the students about their experiences. Someone should definitely get in there with a camera and take some pictures of students working on the computer guts-- that\'s much cooler and much more representative of technology in education than the usual posed \"point at the monitor\" photo.\n\nThought for the week: Amtrak will not let you board your 5:45 train at 5:44, no matter how upset you look. Be aware. ',' ','','publish','open','closed','','303','','','2007-11-09 22:29:56','2007-11-10 04:29:56','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/09/303/',0,'post','',0),(304,10,'2007-11-10 17:59:26','2007-11-10 23:59:26','Bryan Duff\nFriday\n2.5 Hours Worked\nTech General\n\nFriday was spent mostly doing minor tech repairs with printers and such. I was actually have issuing sharing printers in certain classrooms so that all the computers in the room could print from them. I was unable to locate the printers in the directory despite making sure they were shared. Things in the lab seemed okay as well.\n\nAfter reading Jonathan\'s post, I spent most of the day talking with Ms. Evans about how she was doing with things. She did seem a bit dragged down by the amount of pestering she received, but I reiterated to her that she shouldn\'t hesitate to delegate things to me so I can take care of them on Fridays. She did say that she really only takes time out of her day to help teachers when she knows she\'s free, and most of the time all that needs done is simply rebooting a computer or turning a printer on and off. This reaffirms the fact that many of the teachers just need to be made a little more self-reliant. I told her that when problems are that simple she should make sure to tell teachers to try restarting and things like that before calling her. Ms. Evans said that would be a good idea and seemed optimistic that would help her out. She also feels as if the expectations of her in regards to the building\'s technology are becoming more and more manageable: teachers now understand that she won\'t be able to solve all of their problems right away.\n\nLet me know how I can be of help with the Deep Freeze and Advanced FirstClass initiatives. I think things are still moving in a positive direction!\n\nBryan','Week 7 at Harte','','publish','open','closed','','week-7-at-harte','','','2007-11-10 17:59:26','2007-11-10 23:59:26','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/10/week-7-at-harte/',0,'post','',0),(305,14,'2007-11-11 01:59:25','2007-11-11 07:59:25','Peter Smutko\nMurray Language Academy\nWeek of Nov. 5, 07\n\nI wasn\'t in most of this week due to an attempt to catch up on schoolwork, but the latest project is getting all the computers in 204 (the refurbished, rewired old lab) hooked up and running.\nNot much other news.','quick update on murray','','publish','open','closed','','quick-update-on-murray','','','2007-11-11 01:59:25','2007-11-11 07:59:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/11/quick-update-on-murray/',0,'post','',0),(306,39,'2007-11-11 14:18:59','2007-11-11 20:18:59','Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/11/11\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W F\n\nTotal hours for week: 6\n\nThe School: Woodlawn\n\nKind of Work: (Tech general)\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\n\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">1. TechKnow: the computers will be dismantled soon; exciting!</font>\n\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">2. Room Calls: I did lots of exciting dismantling myself; turns out that computers act like they don\'t have enough memory if a there accumulates a critical mass of dust in the case.  One rule of thumb: if dust is falling out of the ventilation ports, there\'s probably a lot in the case.</font>','Woodlawn: Week 7','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-7','','','2007-11-11 14:18:59','2007-11-11 20:18:59','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/11/woodlawn-week-7/',0,'post','',1),(307,37,'2007-11-11 15:45:13','2007-11-11 21:45:13','Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/11/11\n\nDay(s) worked or described: W F (12:30-3:30)\n\nTotal hours for week: 6\n\nThe School: Fermi\n\nKind of Work: Computer Repair\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\n\nWhen  I came in on Wednesday,  I seemed to get hit with every computer problem imaginable.  Computers in 105, 116, 120, and 216 all needed to be looked at.  I didn\'t have much luck trying to fix them at first, because they were all moving so slowly.  I finally started a reimage on a computer in 105, but it decided to take forever, so I had to leave before it was done.  Most of the other computers just needed to be saved until Friday.\n\nAfter talking to Mitch on Friday, I ended up spending the entire time working with the 6 computers in 116.  I\'m pretty sure that I got all of them working and connected to the internet.  The second \"not working\" computer didn\'t even end up needing a reimage.  However, I still need two more USB keyboards.  The computers don\'t seem to like PS/2 keyboards, for whatever reason.  If we can just get those, it will be a nice little mini-computer lab in there.\n\nHopefully, next week will be a little more normal.  I still have to follow up in 105 and 216, among other things.','Week 7 at Fermi (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','week-7-at-fermi-dana','','','2007-11-11 15:45:13','2007-11-11 21:45:13','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/11/week-7-at-fermi-dana/',0,'post','',2),(308,38,'2007-11-11 16:27:48','2007-11-11 22:27:48','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/11\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W F (erase the letters for days you weren’t there)\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, helping teachers\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nI spent most of Monday setting up one of Ms. Alexander\'s computers as a Palm Pilot sync station for DIBELs. I don\'t know if any teacher has managed to successfully sync with it yet, but all of the necessary software is there. This came in handy, as the other two computers in Ms. Alexander\'s room (120) now refuse to log onto DIBBLES and are generally having some serious problems with slowing down and coming up with highly mysterious errors (oops! can\'t initialize explorer! etc.). I struggled with these computers for a while, and continued to fight with them on Wednesday. I also spent some time on Wednesday with Mr. Joslin, who needed me to install some software on his classroom computers. That went off with only one minor hitch -- one progam insisted that there wasn\'t enough space for it to be installed on one computer even though there was...this wasn\'t really a crisis, though. On Friday, Mitch came in to see what could be done about Ms. Alexander\'s finicky computers and to teach me about ghosting. We played around with the virtual RAM on some of the computers, but the main problem seems to be caused by an update pushed from downtown. To try to fix the problem, we ghosted one of the computers, but I had to leave before it finished so I\'m not sure how successful the operation was. A slightly frustrating week overall, but maybe the day off on Monday will give everything time to magically fix itself! Fingers crossed.','Week Seven? More like...um...weak seven.','','publish','open','closed','','week-seven-more-likeumweak-seven','','','2007-11-11 16:27:48','2007-11-11 22:27:48','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/11/week-seven-more-likeumweak-seven/',0,'post','',1),(309,2,'2007-11-11 19:30:04','2007-11-12 01:30:04','For those using and/or contributing to the CUIP TechWiki -- there is now a privacy password in front of it.  The same nsp username and password that gets you in here should work there.   ==mitch','Privacy password on CUIP Techwiki','','publish','open','closed','','privacy-password-on-cuip-techwiki','','','2007-11-11 19:30:04','2007-11-12 01:30:04','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/11/privacy-password-on-cuip-techwiki/',0,'post','',0),(310,34,'2007-11-16 15:26:00','2007-11-16 21:26:00','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/11/16\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 4.4 (Building closed early again on Friday)\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: On Tuesday, I finished labeling all computers, and quickly showed Ms. Echols the blog. I\'ll haveto type up more thorough directions and email them to her. I tinkered around in safe mode and \"fixed\" the low memory problems on the computer in 207 and E4 in the lab. Actually, I did nothing other than restart into safe mode, look at the settings, and then restart into the normal booting mode. Things started working again.\n\nE1 was having major problems on Tuesday...re-seating the HD fixed it sorta, but when I moved the computer around, the problem re-appeared. On Friday, I switched the power connector to the HD, and things started working again. Also, the network port that E1 was connected to is not working. There was a spare port to plug into, but does someone from CPS need to come in and address that? \n\nC4 is acting suspect. The power buttons on the machine weren\'t working in Windows, and in the process of going to the control panel to correct that, the entire computer freaked out and became unresponsive. I\'ll have to check it out on Tuesday.\n\n I was asked by a teacher to install ChildServe, which I did on a specific computer (she said that was fine with her).  After logging on as techco and installing the software, I realized that I\'d need to install a shortcut to the software on the desktop, and there were four different teachers who needed to use the software. Not having the teachers\' passwords (I tried it out using what Mitch told me, but I think that only applies to the students. If so, is it against a security policy for me to know?), I resolved to test my VisualBasic skillz (sic.). The possibility of telling the teachers the path to run the program didn\'t actually occur to me until the writing of this post, hehe.\n\n Anyway, long story short, I edited the Canter-4260-Staff logon .vbs file. I will post what I added on the wiki if that\'s okay with Mitch.\n\nI didn\'t get to writing blogging directions for the teacher, and I still need to work with Russ on the wiki. I have to dash since the building is about to close, but I\'ll either update this when I get home, or send Mitch and Russ an email.\n\nCool Page: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2005-September/thread.html#47862\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 8 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-8-canter','','','2007-11-16 15:26:00','2007-11-16 21:26:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/16/week-8-canter/',0,'post','',1),(311,41,'2007-11-16 13:44:46','2007-11-16 19:44:46','\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Your Name: Han Zhu</strong></p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/16</p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T W F</p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong></p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong></p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Tech for Project, Project Prep <strong> </strong></p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Tuesday I went with Sara to meet with Ms. Cranley in the morning. One of her 2 functioning (if you can call it that) computers has Powerpoint, so we decided to move forward with the alphabet project on Friday. I also reupdated the Shoesmith website with more teacher blogs and I made a note of which teachers have not updated their blogs at all, so that if I have time, I can go visit them and talk about how they want to use their blogs. Sara and I then sat down to do a quick tour of FirstClass in case I get any questions about that.</p>\n<p align=\"left\">Wednesday, Mr. Willis has once again disappeared, but that was fine because I finally finished updating the students on AR. I just need to get ahold of a teacher/classroom list now so I can add students to classes and then it\'ll be ready to go. I also had a few minutes of free time after that and not much to do, so I took the liberty of deleting some questionable files on a few of the computers in the lab that I had noticed while updating the AR database. My favorite one was a picture titled \"chris brown my boo.\" I think I can say with a fair degree of certainty nobody\'s going to need it for their homework. I also started testing out a classblogmeister.com blog for Mrs. Coleman but I haven\'t made much progress on it.</p>\n<p align=\"left\"> Friday I went with Mrs. Cranley\'s class outside and took pictures of the kids holding up numbers 1-30 (Mrs. Cranley was 31). Next week, I have set up a time on Monday with her to teach her how to upload pictures from her camera onto the computer in her class and to get them set into a powerpoint slideshow. I also helped Mr. Willis with a class in the lab and talked to Ms. Lee about her blog. She wants to audio record her spanish vocabulary and put it on her new blog (Sara, she\'d like it to be shoesmithspanish.cuipblogs.org) so I will be meeting with her about that on Wednesday.</p>','Week 8 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-8-at-shoesmith','','','2007-11-16 13:44:46','2007-11-16 19:44:46','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/16/week-8-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',2),(312,33,'2007-11-16 11:43:49','2007-11-16 17:43:49','<p><strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/16\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 11/12/2007]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>around six\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab maintenance)\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nThis week has had much more of a different feel than weeks prior.  Wednesday was very relaxed, and I had so little to do, I made rounds and checked on every teacher\'s computer, and eventually found plenty of work fixing random things here and there.\n\nFriday, however, began with an exciting experience of a computer lab full of students.  They were all preparing, or supposed to be preparing, for their high school applications.  The teacher in the computer lab was frantically trying to convey the importance of these applications, but many of the students were more content listening to Lil Wayne.\n\nFrom what I gathered, the high school that Mollison students are fed into (Phillips) is of very low quality in comparison to the other high schools to which they can apply.\n\nWell, I had to go to Mrs. Sigler\'s room and fix her computer, which took a while and I was able to hear her entire conversation with her students (7th graders) about the importance of going to a good high school and going to college.  She made an emphasis on the fact that they need to be passionate and care about school to get anywhere in life, and cited various statistics to instill the fact that the odds were against them. \n\nIndeed, this was the crux of her point.  Because of their race/income status, they are less inclined and less likely to make it to college.  So, her main concern was, get good grades, learn, so you can be successful and prove these statistics wrong.  This kind of advice sounded harsh at first, however I recall that statistically, this is the kind of advice that works.  Telling kids that they are great and have the capacity for anything based on doing nothing (as has been policy recently) does not have the same effect as letting them know the reality of the situation and the odds that are at stake. \n\nThe fruits of this job are beginning to appear on a daily basis.\n\n I realize this was a tangent, but I did fix some computers while I was at it.\n\nI\'m also going to bring in an external sound card for the special-ed teacher on Monday.\n\n <strong>Something to read:</strong> the news...wuz goin\' on?','Mollison: W8ing in Week 8','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-w8ing-in-week-8','','','2007-11-16 11:43:49','2007-11-16 17:43:49','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/16/mollison-w8ing-in-week-8/',0,'post','',1),(313,35,'2007-11-16 14:13:17','2007-11-16 20:13:17','\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Your Name: Zhang Zhang</strong></p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/16</p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W F</p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong></p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>The School: Ray</strong></p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general<strong> </strong></p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>I have spent much of this week encountering many older IBM NetVista machines with multiple lack or resource errors. For the most part, these machines have very little ram, and yet have been installed with Windows XP. Possibly, CPS has released a recent update that pushed these machines over the edge. For the most part, increasing the allocated virtual memory from Safe Mode solves the problems, but the computers remain very slow. The best solution seems to be to downgrade these computers back to Windows 2000 or possibly install more ram. Any suggestions?</p>','Week 8 Ray School','','publish','open','closed','','week-8-ray-school','','','2007-11-16 14:13:17','2007-11-16 20:13:17','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/16/week-8-ray-school/',0,'post','',0),(314,36,'2007-11-16 14:29:39','2007-11-16 20:29:39','<p><strong>Your Name: Sara Tamler</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/16</p>\n<p><strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W Θ F</p>\n<p><strong>Total hours for week: 9</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The School: Wadsworth<br />\n</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision)</p>\n<p><strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This week I\'ve been wrapping up my rounds to different rooms, checking on computers in the classrooms that should have them. I\'ve installed a fair amount of printer drivers...a lot of the teachers are complaining about a lack of ink, but Ms. Warden says they have a budget for it and always take hers anyhow.</p>\n<p>Still having some mouse issues...many of the computers will only recognize USB mice, and we don\'t have enough for all of them. Don\'t know what that\'s all about.</p>\n<p>Also, most of the computers run really slowly...not a surprise given they\'re so old. I\'ve been cleaning up their disk space to give them access to a bit more memory, they\'re hanging in there. However, there are a select few that, no matter how much I clear off of them, still say that they can\'t even sign onto the student domain due to low memory space. Don\'t know what THAT\'S all about, either.</p>\n<p>Today I\'ve been in the laptop lab...an afterschool program comes in here, their first meeting was last night, and they left the laptops in a mess of sorts. Some of them are charging, some of them are not, some aren\'t signing onto the network...still kind of vague. I\'ll probably be spending a bit of time with them debugging.</p>\n','Wadsworth Week 8','','publish','open','closed','','wadsworth-week-8','','','2007-11-16 14:29:39','2007-11-16 20:29:39','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/16/wadsworth-week-8/',0,'post','',0),(315,39,'2008-03-08 16:48:32','2008-03-08 22:48:32','<strong>Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/3/8\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M T Th F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 6.5\n\n<strong>The School:</strong> Woodlawn Community School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, TechKnow)\n\n1. We have a few extra computers floating around, so this week we looked for teachers who wanted another computer and set them up.  Most teachers didn\'t have enough room for another computer, but we are adding one in the library.  For that computer, I had to install the OS (and run remediation), a network card (the onboard one wasn\'t working), Office, and (after Russ suggested it) some video card drivers so it would display higher resolution than 480x640 at 16 colors.  That computer is ready for use now (and I installed Office on another computer in the library).  Another computer is ready for installation (in the cafeteria, apparently). \n\n2. I finished the computer inventory inventory that CPS requested.\n\n3. I sorted through a lot of computer parts we had in a box.  Any chance someone want seven or eight 8x CD-ROM drives or a 400 Mb hard disk?  I also found that a cable from our old Compaqs can replace one that broke in a lot of the TechKnow Dells.','Woodlawn: Week 9','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-9-2','','','2008-03-08 16:48:32','2008-03-08 22:48:32','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/03/08/woodlawn-week-9-2/',0,'post','',0),(316,44,'2007-11-16 15:54:59','2007-11-16 21:54:59','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Nathaniel Berry\n\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 11-16-07\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 3.5\n\n<strong>The School</strong>: Price Elementary\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: General Tech\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: This was a short week because the school was closed Monday. I worked on a few of the computers in the computer lab. Most that were listed as problematic were actually ok, but one had to have the ethernet cable plugged in. Another was giving the \"increase registry size\" error message that has been coming up lately. I increased the RAM from 128 to 256, and now it works fine. I did a little work in the server room, and that\'s about it.','Week 8 at Price','','publish','open','closed','','week-8-at-price','','','2007-11-16 15:54:59','2007-11-16 21:54:59','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/16/week-8-at-price/',0,'post','',1),(317,24,'2007-11-16 16:16:32','2007-11-16 22:16:32','Name: Ariel Hafftka\n\nSchool: Entrepreneurship\n\nDay worked: 11/16/07, 3hours\n\nToday\'s date: 11 /16/07\n\nCategory: Tech General\n\nMain report/narrative:\n\nI regret the death of Mr. Ellington, I was really looking forward to working with him.  The entire school was really shocked at the news.\n\nToday was quite busy:\n\n(1) I plugged in and set up the Macs and PCs in room 210, which were recently moved from room the library.   Two macs are missing power cords.  On one PC, none of the usual passwords appear to work (the one PC 2nd furthest to the left).  We also need 4 USB keyboards for the PCs.\n\n(2) I set up a new Dell Optiplex 745 computer in room 209. I set it up to print with Ms. Monroe\'s printer using the HP network scanner Russ told me about.  The bundled system does not have MS Office or any other needed software.  Do we have an image that might work on this computer?\n\n(3) The librarian was happy today about the arrival of a large number of brand new computers.  A few old computers in the library still need operating systems.  Should I use an image from the drive Mitch left at Entrepreneurship for the old computers?\n\n(4) I also helped Mr. Williams with some email problems.\n\n(5) I did not start preparing Ms. Monroe\'s computers for DeepFreeze, although I\'ll get to it next time.','Busy day at Entrepreneurship','','publish','open','closed','','busy-day-at-entrepreneurship','','','2007-11-16 16:16:32','2007-11-16 22:16:32','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/16/busy-day-at-entrepreneurship/',0,'post','',1),(318,10,'2007-11-17 16:58:48','2007-11-17 22:58:48','Bryan Duff\nBret Harte\nFriday, November 16th: 12:30-3:30\n\nMs. Evans was gone today, but left me the several things to check up on anyway.  \n\nThe Library is still having serious problems.  Apparently the librarian hasn\'t been able to use Follet or the scanning program all year and has just been letting students borrow books on good faith.  I was told Mitch was in earlier in the week, so he probably already knows about this problem.  The librarian showed me that she had found a list of the registration numbers that Mitch had apparently requested earlier in the week.  The problem is that none of the programs will open because the links to the L drive, \\NtServ, are broken.  I\'m not sure what this means, but it\'s a pretty big problem.\n\nAlso, someone from Computers For Schools called earlier in the week and Ms. Evans asked me to check on the lab to see what was needed.  I feel like the lab is in pretty good shape - even though the students have taken to messing with the wallpaper and screenpaper settings.  There are four computers which will not turn on, and though I didn\'t really have a chance to look at why, it seems like it was just a matter of them not having enough outlets in the lab (this was the case for two of them, which weren\'t plugged in). I\'m not completely sure that\'s the case, though, and will look into it further.  The lab might always be an issue since there\'s not a full-time teacher there to monitor things.\n\nAlso, Ms. Evans wrote that Accelerated Math has been especially slow for some reason.  I\'m not sure what it means for AM to be running slow or how this problem reveals itself, but Ms. Evans has mentioned it before.  She asked if she ought to run the Data Doctor program, but she hesitates to do so since its disruptive to all the other Star programs.  Since I wasn\'t entirely how big of a problem the slow AM was, I advised her to hold off on doing anything that further disrupt any of the teachers.  \n\nAll in all, things seem to be going well.  The library is a priority, though.','Bret Harte - November 16th','','publish','open','closed','','bret-harte-november-16th','','','2007-11-17 16:58:48','2007-11-17 22:58:48','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/17/bret-harte-november-16th/',0,'post','',0),(319,37,'2007-11-18 23:13:24','2007-11-19 05:13:24','Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/11/18\n\nDay(s) worked or described: W (12:30-3:30), F (1:30-3:30)\n\nTotal hours for week: 5\n\nThe School: Fermi Elementary\n\nKind of Work: Tech general, Helping Teacher\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\n\nOn Wednesday, I was grappling with the prospect of installing new RAM onto a computer in Ms. Alexander\'s room. I opened up the computer and gave it a shot, but I ended up not being able to reach the RAM slots, so after trying to remove various parts of the computer\'s internals for some time, I decided to wait for a little more guidance. I did help Ms. Alexander with some other minor problems she was having, however. I also stopped in 105 and tried to get that computer up and running after its reimage. I\'m not sure that that is a successful technique, because the computer was still slow and buggy. On a side note, Mitch, do you know why the remediation script to create standard accounts doesn\'t create a \"school\" account? That would seem to be a good idea, but I\'ve had to create it manually several times.\n\nI came in at 1:30 on Friday, because I had an academic thing. I was intending to try to install the RAM again, but I got caught up in some other things instead. First, Mr. Smith\'s kids were in the computer lab, so I helped them log on and get set up. Then, I asked Dr. Sanders about the 5 new computers that had been donated to the school. Apparently, they had been donated by the mother of a student in Ms. Covington\'s class, so Ms. Covington was supposed to get first pick of them. She requested three originally, but it looks like she will only need two. I set up one of them on Friday. It is connected to the internet and ready to go. Of the four that are left, one will go into Ms. Covington\'s room as well, one will go into Ms. Alexander\'s room (120), one will go into 121, and the last one is not certain yet, but Ms. Stokley is making a case for herself in 207.','Week 8 At Fermi (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','week-8-at-fermi-dana','','','2007-11-18 23:13:24','2007-11-19 05:13:24','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/18/week-8-at-fermi-dana/',0,'post','',0),(320,38,'2007-11-19 00:36:07','2007-11-19 06:36:07','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/18\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W  F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 4</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi Elementary</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, project prep\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nOn Wednesday, I made sure that the DIBELS sync station I set up for Ms. Alexander was working properly. To test the station, I synced the Palm Pilot of a teacher who was having trouble with some of her class data. Unfortunately, some testing data got lost in the syncing process and I couldn\'t seem to get it back. I felt pretty bad about this, but she seemed to be okay with it -- hopefully it won\'t be too much of a problem. I also uninstalled Mr. Orekoya\'s printer drivers in hopes that I will someday be able to have the menus display in Finnish, but I didn\'t have the time to reinstall it. I hoped to get to it on Friday, but I spent most of that day up in the MDF room trying to figure out how the security camera system works so that I could change the feed of cameras being displayed on the monitor by the security desk. After tracing cables and playing around with keyboards and plugging in monitors, I had a breakthrough (thanks to Honeywell\'s technical support line) and got the feed to change. Very exciting. I then went up to the computer lab with Dr. Sanders and Mr. Taylor to discuss what would be going on with the media center. All of the monitors have been moved...onto tables...which are still in the computer lab...but I guess they might be necessary once we start setting up workstations in the media center. Dr. Sanders wants to set up about five stations, which should require some interesting power-strip/router action since there are very few outlets on that side of the room. We also took a trip to the defunct science lab, which is SO COOL and is filled with all of these absurd old science demonstration models and old chemicals and also photography equipment. This was pretty exciting for me, so we hung out in there and discussed how we would like to put some computers there as well until I had to go. All in all, a super-exciting day.','Week Eight -- celebrate!','','publish','open','closed','','week-eight-celebrate','','','2007-11-19 00:36:07','2007-11-19 06:36:07','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/19/week-eight-celebrate/',0,'post','',1),(321,42,'2007-11-19 10:25:08','2007-11-19 16:25:08','<strong>Your Name:</strong><strong> Clare Wolfe</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/19\n\nWeek or date reporting about, if not most recent week: Weeks 7 -9\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M  W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:</strong><strong>4 hr/week</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: </strong><strong>Till</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> internet research, printer maintenance, excel stuff\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: Nothing really special is going on in the mornings at Till. Mostly I do small tasks for Ms. Jacobson, like making graphs for her or looking up kid friendly websites. However, I have fixed a printer and an audacity file, and created an audacity file for the school\'s book review page. I finally got up to the computer lab today, but everything looks like it\'s in good working order. I like Till, but I wish I had a more interesting project to look forward to each morning. Directly teaching the kids about computers would be welcome, or working on a blog, or doing some graphic design.<strong> I also plan to pick up 2 more hours next quarter, for a total of 6.</strong></strong>\n\nAlso, it seems that my time card went in on time last week! Thank you times a hundred for whoever signed it!\n\n<strong>Thought for the week:</strong> <strong> </strong>दूसरो से प्रेम करना अपने आप से प्रेम करना है','Week 8 @ Till (Clare)','','publish','open','closed','','week-9-till-clare','','','2007-11-19 10:25:08','2007-11-19 16:25:08','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/19/week-9-till-clare/',0,'post','',1),(322,34,'2007-11-20 12:46:25','2007-11-20 18:46:25','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/11/20\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 2 (Reported as 1.3 because an estimated timecard over-reported my hours based on last Friday)\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: Turns out there\'s still lots of stuff to do!\n\n<strong>As for past issues:</strong>\n* The C4 power button may or may not be working, but the computer is no longer freaking out.\n* I replaced a keyboard on C4.\n* ChildServe was installed on A2, as detailed last week. I will send an email to \"djshauri\" asking her to inform me when the two other members have logged into A2, so that I can move a ChildServe shortcut to the Desktop folder of their profile.\n\n<strong>Past issues not addressed:</strong>\n* Because I\'ve been busy with several computer issues, I still haven\'t gotten around to typing up those blogging directions. I\'ll send an email to the teachers notifying them that it\'s a work in progress, but that when it\'s done, it\'ll be quite thorough. This will include links to other educational blogs.\n* I need to work with Russ (who came in today) to possibly set up a wiki.\n* I need to make sure rows C and E are properly labeled (the Windows computer name), and double-check that the printer has been installed on all the computers. I might also want to find a proper long-term labeling solution for the hardware.\n\n<strong>New Issues:</strong>\n* I got \"report sheets\" from Russ that the teachers will be able to fill out for when they have computer issues. I\'ll work with Ms. Ahad to get those in the office or in some sort of binder; this will hopefully make it much easier for teachers to let me know when they have problems.\n* I may have to modify my schedule even further for Friday afternoons because the school usually closes down before 4:10, when my shift ends. I\'ll keep you appraised before I do anything; winter quarter might prompt other changes in my schedule.\n* With Russ\'s permission, I started installing DeepFreeze on all the client computers. I need to look closer to ensure it works fine on 2K computers, but so far, everything\'s going swimmingly. However, the install process does not seem to be working on A6. I\'ll take a look next Tuesday.\n\n<strong>Note of the day:</strong>\nC3 was being quite pesky and giving me troubles. I wanted to shut it down, so I went to Start Menu --&gt; Shutdown {on start menu} --&gt; Shutdown {as opposed to restart} --&gt; Dialog: \"You do not have permission\" {dialog cut off, no \"cancel\" or \"okay\" buttons}.\n\nI saw this and my first thoughts were along the lines of what <a href=\"http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/wav/cantdo.wav\">this .wav file</a> has to say!\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 9 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-9-canter','','','2007-11-20 12:46:25','2007-11-20 18:46:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/20/week-9-canter/',0,'post','',1),(323,33,'2007-11-21 11:23:36','2007-11-21 17:23:36','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/20\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 11/18/2007]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T<strong> W</strong> Θ F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>around six\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab maintenance)\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nIn the two days that I\'ve been here this week, I was able to bring Mrs. Tolbert (the special-ed teacher) the sound card she needed from another computer in here, and then fixed her INSTR login problem.  Hopefully she\'ll be able to use the computers for teaching and in the classroom more frequently. \n\nIn the computer lab, slight progress has been made.  I managed to, like Dr. Frankenstein, bring a computer back to life, or reanimate a dead shell from stolen parts.  Thanks mostly to my screwdriver, luck, and my handy-dandy Windows 2000 install CD (thanks Mitch) everything worked, and one of the EagleViews is running with a different hard drive, memory card, and OS than its comparitvely weaker bretheren.  This stalwart creature hopefully will not scare me like the creature of Dr. Frankenstein and force me to cast him into isolation so that he harbors a hatred of the human race and of me in particular.  I\'m looking at him right now...don\'t even try it I6950W45258796 aka \"The Creature.\" \n\nAnyway, I\'ve spent more time in classrooms around students and also more time cracking open computers and playing with their delicate viscera.  Both of which I enjoy!   \n\nThe Deep Freeze process should begin soon.  Perhaps next week.  I\'m currently typing on the computer that will become the Mr. Freeze of Deep Freeze, thwarting Batman on a day-to-day basis.  And by Batman I mean changing Desktop backgrounds and messing with the Start menu.\n\n <strong>Something to read:</strong> Frankenstein by Mary Shelley','Week 9 at Mollison: Spare?','','publish','open','closed','','week-9-at-mollison-spare','','','2007-11-21 11:23:36','2007-11-21 17:23:36','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/21/week-9-at-mollison-spare/',0,'post','',1),(324,41,'2007-11-21 17:04:26','2007-11-21 23:04:26','<strong>Your Name: Han Zhu</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/21\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M  W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 4 (Shaz said I could tack on the CUIP meeting from the beginning of the year for a short week though, so technically 5)\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School:</strong><strong> Shoesmith</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Tech for Project\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Monday I worked with Mrs. Cranley the whole time to get her pictures into a Powerpoint presentation. I ran into a couple of issues with her computers though. She has 2 functional ones, one of which has Microsoft Office, but is out of hard drive space and won\'t install any new drivers (so it won\'t recognize her USB flash drive or her camera when she plugs them in). I tried to clear up a little space on there for her, but if she doesn\'t get a new computer soon I might have to resort to sitting down with her and just going through files/documents to see what can be deleted. The other computer is fine, with almost 2gb free but doesn\'t have Microsoft Office. I used that one to get the pictures from her camera onto her USB flash drive and I also wrote her a set of directions for getting pictures from her camera to her computer/flash drive and how to safely remove both her camera and flash drive. I then realized her printer didn\'t work, so after a couple of fights with dust bunnies and a lot of muttering to myself, I fixed it (it was a simple power issue - I just didn\'t realize one power strip was not working at all).\n\nWednesday I sat down with Ms. Lee and went through the set-up of her blog and explained features to her. I then spent some time learning Impact, which has locked itself so that you can\'t change an individual student\'s grade, although you can change every student in one class to have the same grade. One of the teachers didn\'t do her grades on time, so Mr. Willis and I are trying to figure out how to put her grades in now. So far, no luck. Does anyone know how to get around this?\n\nThings I didn\'t get around to/didn\'t have the resources to get around to that are on the schedule for next week: installing Photoshop into one of the lab computers for Mrs. Cranley, talking to Mrs. Cranley about whether she wants to bring in a projector to show the Powerpoint presentation in class or if she just wants to run a slideshow of the pictures on the computer in her class in which case I won\'t even need to install Powerpoint on her computer, finishing the updates on AR (Mr. Willis still can\'t get ahold of a class list for each class),  and hopefully working on Mrs. Coleman\'s blog.\n\n<strong>Thought for the week:</strong> Happy Turkey Day and safe travels everyone!','Week 9 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-9-at-shoesmith','','','2007-11-21 17:04:26','2007-11-21 23:04:26','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/21/week-9-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',0),(325,39,'2007-11-25 18:41:26','2007-11-26 00:41:26','<strong>Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/25\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M T\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 3:45\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School:</strong><strong> Woodlawn</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, TechKnow\n\n<strong>TechKnow:</strong>  On Monday, Ms. Johnson began disassembling a demostration computer for the TechKnow students.  The Students reassembled it on Tuesday (a make-up day because after-school activities were canceled on Wednesdays for the Thanksgiving break).  The reassembly was less than ideal: a ribbon cable was maimed in the process of dissassembly and the computer did not function as a result.  Does anyone know a reasonable way to pull ribbon cables that do not have the special pull ribbons?\n\n<strong>Other Stuff:</strong> I discovered that one computer (a Pentium 3 running Windows 2000) with what we thought was a nonworking video card in fact has a deeper problem; hopefully we will be able to find a replacement computer.  Hooray for old hardware!','Woodlawn: Week 9','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-9','','','2007-11-25 18:41:26','2007-11-26 00:41:26','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/25/woodlawn-week-9/',0,'post','',0),(326,35,'2007-11-25 21:07:41','2007-11-26 03:07:41','<strong>Your Name: Zhang Zhang\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/25\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 4 </strong>\n\n<strong>The School:</strong><strong> Ray School\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nStill more and more broken old Windows 2000 machines to fix... For most of these computers, increasing the virtual ram size and registry space allocated alleviates the problem, and defragmenting the hard drive greatly improves performance. For some, however, a process belonging to Trend Micro Antivirus eats up all of the computer\'s hard drive IO, causing a bottleneck that hinders any other program.\n\nAside from that, it is great that logistics regarding use of the computer lab has been greatly improved, and as a result, more teachers seem to be willing to use it. (I am also happy to report that I can now get access to the lab as well.)\n\n<strong>Thought of the week: </strong> For future planning, it seems to me that the CPS could benefit greatly if it were to switch over to using Windows terminals rather than buying/leasing desktops every few years. This could solve the reliability problem, as well as save a considerable amount of time and money after the initial switch is made... Just a thought.','Week 9: Ray School','','publish','open','closed','','week-9-ray-school','','','2007-11-25 21:07:41','2007-11-26 03:07:41','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/25/week-9-ray-school/',0,'post','',1),(327,37,'2007-11-25 23:36:16','2007-11-26 05:36:16','<strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/25\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W (12:30-3:30)\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 3 </strong>\n\n<strong>The School:</strong><strong> Fermi Elementary</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Computer upgrades\n\nI only worked on Wednesday this week, due to the Thanksgiving holiday.  Most of the day was spent installing RAM on various computers.  First, Sara and I installed RAM on one of the computers in 120.  This seemed to work really well, so I installed RAM on Ms. Alexander\'s computer as well.  This didn\'t have quite as much of an effect, but the computer is at least usable.  I think that her computer might just have more stuff on it that is slowing it down.  I wanted to install RAM on Mr. Smith\'s computer as well, but I had to wait until he was available.  After I had finished, the computer didn\'t seem to want to turn on, which probably means I did something wrong.  I\'m not sure if it actually isn\'t working, or if the monitor is just not working.  Unfortunately, I had no time to investigate, or even to leave a note explaining this, because it was 3:30 and I was about to miss my ride home.  So, if someone could see Mr. Smith in 215 and take a look at his computer, I would really appreciate it.\n\nAlso, I currently have the extra RAM and the toolkit with me.  I can drop them off somewhere on Monday, or just bring them back with me on Wednesday.','Week 9 at Fermi (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','week-9-at-fermi-dana','','','2007-11-25 23:36:16','2007-11-26 05:36:16','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/25/week-9-at-fermi-dana/',0,'post','',1),(328,34,'2007-11-30 15:22:15','2007-11-30 21:22:15','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/11/30\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5 (+2 for training, will go on next timecard)\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: \n\n* I\'ve installed DeepFreeze on all the computers, except for the 2ks with 128 MB. Russ, any luck with getting the Remote Console working? Shouldn\'t you be able to access it directly from canter-adm01, if you can log into that remotely?\n\n* The assistant in the office was having trouble with getting CD-roms to play. She said you were in and did something software-wise (I imagine re-installing the drivers, and it sounded like you uninstalled Real Player), but I think the problem is hardware-related. When the CD-ROM won\'t play, the drive doesn\'t even show up in the Device Manager, not even as an unknown device with faulty drivers. So I opened up the computer and switched the power adapter. The CD-drive is still working, and I have no way to tell if my fix worked since it seems like the way to reproduce the problem is simply to wait. <strong>Eh, she told me as I was leaving that it stopped working again. Looks like a closer look is necessary!</strong>\n\n* Blogging directions are finally finished! However, I need to check with Mitch before I send them out; I\'d like to give them the password, but the only way I can do that is over email, and the password for one of the users is the same as one that we\'d like to keep secure (even though that\'s not known to the user in question). Can you reset those passwords to something that is okay to transmit through email, and then of course they will change them immediately?\n\n* I checked on the printer in room 204, which was reported as having problems. I couldn\'t find any, and everything seemed to be okay. However, there\'s a hardware problem with the (only) printer in the computer lab. The drum unit is all scratched up, and it costs about $120 to replace. What\'s the procedure on that? I\'ll discuss with whoever\'s in the office today when I stop by later to pick up the evaluation. Speaking of printers, I need to see what Ms. Ahad wants done with the extra ones.\n\n--\n\n* I still need to work with Russ (who came in today) to possibly set up a wiki.\n\n* I still need to find a long-term labeling solution for the hardware...as I figured would happen, a few of the post-its were ripped off.\n\n* I still need to make absolutely certain that every computer has the printer installed and is properly named. That sounds like a project for a rainy Friday, though.\n\n* Still working on those report sheets for general usage, as well as my schedule for Fridays of next quarter.\n\nThought of the Week: By the way, I think I\'m working this Tuesday. Sorry I don\'t have the chance to write down a more profound thought!\n\n-Ben Hyman','Last Week @ Canter!','','publish','open','closed','','last-week-canter','','','2007-11-30 15:22:15','2007-11-30 21:22:15','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/30/last-week-canter/',0,'post','',0),(329,42,'2007-11-28 10:18:08','2007-11-28 16:18:08','<p><strong>Your Name: Clare Wolfe\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/28\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 2 </strong>\n\n<strong>The School:</strong><strong> Emmett Till Lower\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Computer upgrades\n\nI made some tags for library books in Word and started to work on the webmap that Sara started with Mrs. Jacobson and Mrs. White. I think I figured out how to put in pictures, but in the meantime I somehow changed the school\'s pic to one of the Chicago Theatre. Don\'t really know how that happened.  Am trying to fix it, but the internet is being slow. I\'m having trouble making the pictures small.\n\nAlso, I\'m not sure that the audio file of Tierra\'s book review ever made it up on the blog site (saved on Mrs. J\'s comp). I don\'t know how this is supposed to be done since there\'s a new process this year, so I\'ll wait until I see Sara next.\n\nGood luck on exams everyone!','Week 10? It\'s all kind of a blur','','publish','open','closed','','week-10-its-all-kind-of-a-blur','','','2007-11-28 10:18:08','2007-11-28 16:18:08','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/28/week-10-its-all-kind-of-a-blur/',0,'post','',0),(330,37,'2007-11-30 03:27:06','2007-11-30 09:27:06','<p><strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/29\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W (12:30-3:30)\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 3 </strong>\n\n<strong>The School:</strong><strong> Fermi Elementary\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Computer  remediation\n<p>I wanted to check all of the donated computers to make sure that they had been remediated properly.  I remediated one of the 205 computers previously, so that one didn\'t need it, and the other one in 205 was fine too.  However, the newly donated computer in 121 still had some steps left to go, so I finished that one up.  I initially couldn\'t remember where the fourth computer was put, but then I realized that it is in Mr. Orekoya\'s room (220? 222? Can\'t remember).  Unfortunately, this computer was placed too far away from a suitable port.  We either need a splitter, so that all three computers can be connected through one port, or we need to move the donated computer to the other side of the room.  As far as I know, the fifth computer hasn\'t been put anywhere yet.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I also followed up on some other things.  I said in my last update that Ms. Alexander\'s computer was running a little slow even after the RAM upgrade.  Well, it turns out that it is running fine now, and the computer knows that the RAM is there, so I had nothing to fix! Similarly, the computer in Mr. Smith\'s room that wouldn\'t turn on before was now turned on and working fine.  That took less time than I expected, so I had time to stop by Mr. Orekoya\'s room to look at a problem he was having where he couldn\'t open any files off of his USB stick.  It was a little odd, I first tried it under his personal instr account, and it didn\'t work. Then we switched to other accounts, and it worked. Finally, we went back to his instr account, and it worked fine there too! Another easy fix, but I suspect that the problem might return.  The last thing I did for the day was look at a computer in 105 which I had ghosted previously, but which still has some problems.  It won\'t let you log off, for instance.  Someone might want to look at that one.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>It\'s off to finals week for me! Oh, the joys of the long paper...</p>','Week 10 and Final Update for the Quarter at Fermi (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','week-10-and-final-update-for-the-quarter-at-fermi-dana','','','2007-11-30 03:27:06','2007-11-30 09:27:06','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/30/week-10-and-final-update-for-the-quarter-at-fermi-dana/',0,'post','',1),(331,38,'2007-11-30 10:29:51','2007-11-30 16:29:51','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/30\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W  F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, DIBELS support\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Monday is somewhat of a blur, but I\'m pretty sure I spent the day helping Ms. Alexander with her computers. I took a little time to check in on Ms. Freckleton in 121 -- I\'d installed a new computer in her room last Monday and intended to get it up to code, but it had mysteriously become password protected and I wasn\'t sure what to do with it. It seems like Dana\'s dealt with it, though, so that\'s good news. So, back to Ms. Alexander. She had a teacher (Ms. Prasad-Heintz, 111) who had tested a student in DIBELS, tried to sync her Palm on one of the stations I\'d set up in Ms. Alexander\'s room, and then lost the new testing data on her Palm. This had already happened to this poor teacher, so I was super-nervous about losing the data for her re-test. To avoid any difficulties, I synced the Palm on Ms. Love\'s computer (107? 105, maybe?) and all the data updated just fine without any losses. On Wednesday, I spent a lot of time on the phone with Wireless Generation trying to find out what was wrong with my sync stations. I\'d noticed that when syncing on Ms. Love\'s computer, the HotSync window did NOT show a message I\'d seen on my sync stations: \"Waiting for server response: 0%\". While Wireless Generation couldn\'t help, and while I still haven\'t gotten the message to go away, I did a little test where I \"tested\" a demo student on Ms. Alexander\'s Palm and then synced it on one of my stations. The data uploaded fine, and nothing was lost, so I guess they\'re okay? I\'m nervous about this mostly because Fermi is hosting a Reading 3-D training on December 5th, and they need as many functional sync stations as possible (especially since mid-year DIBELs benchmarking is coming up). Hopefully, we won\'t have any problems, but any secrets to setting up sync stations for DIBELs would be much appreciated. On Friday, I replaced a broken monitor in Dr. Cima\'s room (108), put shortcuts to Progressive Learning on every computer in the lab at the request of Mr. Hinton (220), and then messed around in the back of the lab with the six billion million trillion outdated software manuals they have stored there. Neither Dr. Sanders nor Mr. Taylor were in and I didn\'t want to start throwing everything away without their go-ahead, but that\'s definitely a project for the near future.','Week 10 at Fermi','','publish','open','closed','','week-10-at-fermi','','','2007-11-30 10:29:51','2007-11-30 16:29:51','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/30/week-10-at-fermi/',0,'post','',0),(332,33,'2007-11-30 12:03:33','2007-11-30 18:03:33','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/30\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 11/26/2007]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>7\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab maintenance)\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nThis week has been pretty mellow, with the majority of my time spent trying to set up another large printer in the lab.\n\nAfter days of not understanding things, I\'ve finally got the other printer working, but I\'m not going to get half of the computers using it quite yet, because it needs some actual hardware repair, there are some nasty lines that show up on the page.\n\nOne thing that has been seriously concerning me is that, despite my efforts to bring the lab to a state of general order and niceness, every time I return it\'s in a state of chaos.  Desktop backgrounds have been changed, kids have been on Disney and Nick.com, or have gotten headphones and speakers to try and listen to things.  This was not a huge issue until I realized someone was using one of the server computers to do their \"work.\"  So, I printed out some big DO NOT USE printed sheets, but when I came in today, that sheet had been moved and that computer had been used just like before with the changed desktop background and everything.  And, to top it off, all the printer paper had been used to print pages and pages of Grand Theft Auto cheat codes.\n\nI take all of this personally as an insult and as a lack of respect for my work whether I should or should not.  I feel like, next quarter, I need to have a meeting with all the teachers who plan on using the lab in how to make sure their kids are doing what they are supposed to, and hopefully establish some rules and disciplinary procedures for the lab that the teachers can implement.  This is totally unacceptable right now.\n\nI\'m really upset about the server computers too.  That\'s ridiculous.\n\nAt any rate, Deep Freeze should fix some of these problems, but having the meeting is a must-do kind of thing.\n\n<strong>Currently Reading:</strong> Essai Sur Le Don - Marcel Mauss','The Final Week of the Quarter: Mollison','','publish','open','closed','','the-final-week-of-the-quarter','','','2007-11-30 12:03:33','2007-11-30 18:03:33','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/30/the-final-week-of-the-quarter/',0,'post','',0),(437,34,'2008-03-08 22:58:38','2008-03-09 04:58:38','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/3/08\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 2.2\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\nTuesday, I got to work and remembered that there was ISAT testing going on, so I realized that I wouldn\'t get much done in any individual classrooms. I tried helping some of the social workers with ChildServe (username/password issues) but was unfortunately unsuccessful. I took another look at E3 - E5, restarting in Safe Mode to defragment those that needed defragmenting, and seeing if there was anything else I could do. I also took a look at the CUIP website, finally having (realized that I\'d!) gotten the requisite permissions to alter the theme. After an hour between the memory and the website, Mitch stopped by and we ran down everything that I\'d been encountering this quarter.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nSome issues: I need to tell Russ about the printers Dr. Conlan has gotten in, and talk to Ms. Ahad about relocating some computers around the school to resolve the RAM issues (Ms. Escalona\'s specifically, but maybe some in 207 and others I don\'t know about). We discussed other possible memory solutions, but the only really effective one is to have spare physical memory, which Canter just doesn\'t have (I know, I know, I\'ve almost accepted it now). We also had a quick rundown on group permissions mechanisms, and removed an extra restriction on the student group.\n\nI also need to find display drivers for one of E3 - E5 so I can try downgrading the color display to see if it has a positive effect on the memory issues.\n \n<strong>Some Other Remaining Issues</strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Space on computer in room 304</li>\n<li>We need one more spare mouse to fully equip all the lab computers...but they really should have enough memory to be usable before this becomes an issue.</li>\n<li>Using Canter\'s compliance website</li>\n<li>Editing the theme for this site. That may not be something I can do too well at Canter, or at least not without my laptop.</li>\n<li>I still have hope for DeepFreeze, sometime!</li>\n\n</ul>\n\n<strong>\"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.\" - Franz Kafka</strong>\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 9 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-9-canter-2','','','2008-03-08 22:58:38','2008-03-09 04:58:38','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/03/08/week-9-canter-2/',0,'post','',0),(333,41,'2007-11-30 13:51:38','2007-11-30 19:51:38','<strong>Your Name: Han Zhu</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/30\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W  F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Tech for Project, Project Culmination, Helping Teacher\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Sara asked me to post a summary of the progress of all my projects, so instead of doing my weekly report, I\'ll just do that (it\'ll include what I did this week)\n\nMrs. Cranley\'s class: I installed Photoshop on one of the lab computers and edited the photos I took of her students earlier. Then I installed Microsoft Office onto her functioning computer (the other one has frozen and I haven\'t had time to figure out what\'s wrong with it - I might not even bother because the other one is perfectly fine and she\'s getting a new computer according to Mr. Willis), showed her some tricks on Powerpoint and set up the slideshow. It was awesome to see the kids\' reactions - they immediately gathered around the computer and started naming off the students in the pictures and the numbers they were holding. I also showed Mrs. Cranley how to print the slides as handouts and then did so - she\'s going to laminate them into a book, I think. I set up her printer onto that computer as well (it was originally connected to the now frozen computer). Future plans: slideshow pictures of the alphabet and colors. Also, I was thinking it would be cool to put up the slideshows on the shoesmith kindergarten blog (Sara, the numbers slideshow is on her desktop).\n\nAR: After much time and effort, AR is fully functional (I think...). At least, it has all the students and classes updated. The problem is, I just found out today that the school is getting a new server next week, so Mr. Willis is trying to figure out how to save all of my hard work somewhere so all the database information isn\'t lost. The problem is that the person who originally installed AR on these computers really jumbled the setup and data files so it\'s exceedingly difficult to find anything in the AR folder. Any thoughts/help on this?\n\nMrs. Coleman\'s blog: I have no idea what is going on with this. I realized though, that putting all her students as users would still entail registering them, I think (which would mean they would still need individual email addresses, which brings us back to the original problem)\n\nMs. Lee\'s blog: I emailed her just two days ago asking if she needed help and she said she would be updating soon.Future plans: get mic to record her vocabulary, start plans in winter quarter to document on her blog her students\' country projects.\n\nMs. Henderson\'s blog: She asked me today to update her blog with a holiday season image, so I did (take a look, it\'s quite a cheerful penguin). She plans on updating soon.\n\nOther than that, not much has been going on. I installed Microsoft Office this week on the computers in the lab that didn\'t have them. I also helped a 3rd grade class get situated with Orchard for the first time and showed a teacher how to input grades into Impact. I would like to meet with more teachers about their blogs (Ms. Coffee, Ms. Walker, Ms. Corbin....), but there never seems to be enough time. I plan on emailing all the teachers with blogs and introducing myself and offering help - at least this way they\'ll know to contact me even if I don\'t get around to contacting them in person. I think I\'ll have some time next week as I do plan on working during finals week, and then I\'ll see what is left for winter quarter.\n\nHappy studying!','Week 10 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-10-at-shoesmith','','','2007-11-30 13:51:38','2007-11-30 19:51:38','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/30/week-10-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',0),(334,40,'2007-11-30 16:34:09','2007-11-30 22:34:09','Your Name: Kevin Koll\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/11/30\n\nDay(s) worked or described:W \n\nTotal hours for week: three\n\nThe School: Price\n\nKind of Work: (Tech general, Helping Teacher)\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\n\nI\'ve been in classrooms a lot the past two weeks. On wednesday alone, I was in 5 different rooms. 106\'s computer had so many programs running on startup that it was nearly unusable. I also installed First class on a computer in that room. The computer in 200 was having problems as well, the specific nature of which I can\'t remember right now. 209\'s printer wouldn\'t stop printing giberish. I eventually connected it to a different computer in the room and set up a script so that all the computers can use it. The teacher in 307 needed help installing some software. Also, Ms. Lattimore on the first floor needed help installing some software from a DVD onto a computer without a DVD drive. I ended up putting the information on the server in the \"staff\" folder and running it from there. \n\nMs Herron also had me installing the printer in 107 to all the laptops. I\'m about 2/3 finished, only the right column of laptops needs to be completed.\n\nNathaniel has really helped clean out MDF. We have some space where we can go through and fix the computers stored in the closet.\n\nMs. Herron hasn\'t sent in the asset disposal form, so the parts are still in 213. Sarah, would you be able to help her out with that? The techknow tables and computers are set up in there now, so the junk is wedged in the back corner.\n\nProjects for next quarter include getting the second laptop cart ready for use, cleaning out the lab and continuing to fix the computers in mdf. Also, I would like to work on a project of some kind. I have some teachers in mind I might want to work with.\n\nCurrently Reading: John Searle: On a Witch Hunt by Richard Schweder. It\'s an interesting essay about an anthropologist who ends up sitting on a witchcraft tribunal, and votes to convict','Week 10 at Price','','publish','open','closed','','week-10','','','2007-11-30 16:34:09','2007-11-30 22:34:09','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/30/week-10/',0,'post','',1),(335,17,'2007-11-30 18:10:39','2007-12-01 00:10:39','Your Name:Today’s Date: 2007/11/30\n\nWeek or date reporting about, if not most recent week: Week 5 to Week 9\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M W F\n\nTotal hours for week: 10.5 per week\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: \n\nAt the Child Parent Center, since there are brand new computers there since last year, there is not much computer work to be done.  When I visit usually I\'m doing some kind of poster or banner.\n\nAt the main building my routine includes fulfilling tech request orders filled out by teachers who are having problems with their computers.  Recent problems I dealt with include a issue introduced by the OfficeScan of the CPS which takes up so much resource that a insufficient resource message appears (this can be solved via the registry most of the time).  Sometimes there are special projects like DellTechknow which can morph into different sub-projects.  \n\nMy regular schedule at this school has changed, to become: ____\n\nThought for the week: Don\'t start doing reports at week 9\n\nWhat’s playing now?: Pandora\n\nWhat’s been good to read lately? Nothing','Woodson Week 5-Week 9','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-week-5-week-9','','','2007-11-30 18:10:39','2007-12-01 00:10:39','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/30/woodson-week-5-week-9/',0,'post','',1),(336,10,'2007-11-30 21:31:07','2007-12-01 03:31:07','Your Name:Today’s Date: 2007/11/30\n\nDay(s) worked or described: Thursday\n\nTotal hours for week: 3 hours\n\nThe School: Bret Harte\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nLuckily, this Thursday Mitch was in. He upgraded the server to Windows 2003, which will likely cause more problems with the data location, but overall help us to get the Follett system working. I will check Mitch\'s report on the situation.\n\nMs. Evans emailed today to say that several teachers have complained about AR and its similar programs have not worked. Mitch was in this morning though.\n\nShe also reiterated my report on the computer lab: many computers are listed as out of order simply because there were no ways of plugging the machine in. The lab needs more surge protectors and things should be good to go. Also, the machines could use the Deep Freeze program as students still tend to change the desktop and other settings. However, without someone monitoring the lab regularly there will probably always be problems.\n\nI\'ll be in for a final check in next Thursday. Next quarter, I hope to work two afternoons a week instead of just one.\n\nThanks!','Harte','','publish','open','closed','','harte','','','2007-11-30 21:31:07','2007-12-01 03:31:07','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/30/harte/',0,'post','',0),(337,14,'2007-12-01 23:15:39','2007-12-02 05:15:39','12/1/07\n\nFor the past couple weeks i\'ve been working on getting the computers up to shape in the new lab in room 204. The wiring project was completed, and the lab is mostly outfitted with some nice machines. I installed rosetta stone on all of them, and made sure they had working microphones, and then worked on some old acers trying to cobble together a couple more working computers to finish off the lab, and move one to the media center (library).\n\nSome troubles i ran in to were win2k machines who didn\'t seem to have any capability to output sound. that is, when i pulled up the sound/media properties in control panel, sound output was \'grayed out\'. at least one computer didn\'t seem to recognize its LAN card after a windows 2000 reinstall (i believe i recall the internet working properly on it before).\n\nI\'ll be going in one day next week, and i\'ll update this post to reflect any new information.\n\n-Peter','work in the new lab at murray language academy','','publish','open','closed','','work-in-the-new-lab-at-murray-language-academy','','','2007-12-01 23:15:39','2007-12-02 05:15:39','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/12/01/work-in-the-new-lab-at-murray-language-academy/',0,'post','',0),(338,36,'2007-12-02 11:57:39','2007-12-02 17:57:39','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Sara Tamler\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/12/02\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W Θ\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>5 1/2\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Wadsworth\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>My last few days for the quarter were spent primarily fixing some basic problems on computers in classrooms - a lot of mice installations and ethernet cord replacements. I\'ve also started trouble-shooting computers that have been dumped into a rarely-used classroom - a few are in better shape than a lot of the ones I\'ve seen, though a few definitely have major problems. There\'s one newer-looking computer with a really nice monitor that has a really strange error - I don\'t remember exactly what it said, but half the icons didn\'t show up, the Start Menu doesn\'t seem to exist, and when I tried to go to the control panel it showed up as unreadable icon-holders. Strange.\n\nWhen I get back from winter break, I\'m going to start planning projects with teachers to teach kids about basic software.\n\nThat\'s it, see you next month!','Wadsworth Week 10','','publish','open','closed','','wadsworth-week-10','','','2007-12-02 11:57:39','2007-12-02 17:57:39','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/12/02/wadsworth-week-10/',0,'post','',0),(339,44,'2007-12-02 13:57:21','2007-12-02 19:57:21','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Nathaniel Berry\n\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 12-2-07Reporting on most recent week\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: M, F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 8\n\n<strong>The School</strong>: Price Elementary\n\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n\nNot much really happened this week.  I did a little work in the MDF room.  I also helped out in room 108 with the laptop cart.  Some of the computers are having trouble printing.  One of the problems I found was that the computer registered the printer as the defaut printer, but said that the printer was offline, even while other people were printing.  One of the parts of this problem is that limited account users are unable to clear the print que.  So if there are documents that are backed up (I found some from a year ago) they can\'t clear then out.  This problem should be looked into, as it appears to be unnecessary.  \n\nNathaniel','Week 10 at Price','','publish','open','closed','','week-10-at-price','','','2007-12-02 13:57:21','2007-12-02 19:57:21','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/12/02/week-10-at-price/',0,'post','',1),(340,39,'2007-12-02 16:03:37','2007-12-02 22:03:37','<strong>Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/12/2\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 4:00\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Woodlawn\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, TechKnow\n\n<strong>TechKnow:</strong> By now, all of the students have at least begun disassembling their computers.  They have been put in pairs, so one partner disassembles and reassebles his or her computer and then the other partner does the same.  It\'s going pretty smoothly so far, although students are a bit overly cautious about reconnecting cables (perhaps because they are not cautious enough when disconnecting them).\n\n<strong>Other Stuff:</strong> More computers having problems with (apparently) isufficient registry sizes--a bad security patch?  I upgraded memory in one computer to 256mb to alleviate the problem.  We may end up pulling memory from some of the laptops in order to put it in others so we\'ll have some functional laptops until the extra memory is ordered/recieved.','Woodlawn: Week 10','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-10','','','2007-12-02 16:03:37','2007-12-02 22:03:37','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/12/02/woodlawn-week-10/',0,'post','',0),(341,34,'2007-12-04 10:01:06','2007-12-04 16:01:06','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/12/04\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 4 (2 on Tuesday, 2 for training from last week)\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nIt\'s really the first \"remaining issue\" below that would be awesome if it could be taken care of in my absence (plus it\'s out of my control; I can do everythinge else). All questions I have are italicized so you can easily pick them out. If anything\'s unclear, you may want to reference <a href=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/11/30/last-week-canter/\">my post from last week</a>.\n\n<strong>Remaining Issues</strong>:\n\n<ul>\n	<li>DeepFreeze Remote Console. That\'s been out of my control for a while -- I think Russ just needs to find something out from CPS or something?</li>\n\n	<li>I took care of some printer stuff (described below) with the side effect that the rarely-used printer in room 204 (the teacher\'s lounge) now has the bad drum unit and should be eventually replaced with another drum unit or another printer. <em>What\'s the course of action on this? Should I look at putting a few of the spare printers into use when I get back?</em></li>\n\n	<li> I still need to work with Russ to possibly set up a wiki. This can wait until I\'m back.</li>\n\n	<li>I still need to find a long-term labeling solution for the hardware...as I figured would happen, a few of the post-its were ripped off. Obviously this will wait until I get back.</li>\n\n	<li>I still need to make absolutely certain that every computer has the printer installed and is properly named. That sounds like a project for me for a rainy Friday, though.</li>\n\n	<li>Still working on those report sheets for general usage, as well as my schedule for Fridays of next quarter. This will wait until I get back.</li></ul>\n\n<strong>Resolved Issues</strong>:\n\n<ul>\n	<li>I finally fixed the CD-rom drive in the office. It involved some registry editing (I made backups, of course), and was apparently a problem relating to the CD-burning software Windows was using. Google was invaluable as always, of course. I think I\'ll have to install Roxio CD Creator when I get back, as burning is now broken (I believe). Still, I don\'t think the disappearing problem will occur again.</li>\n\n	<li>Blogging directions have been sent out. I\'m just having the teachers reset their passwords using the \"Forgot your password?\" feature, and then go from there. <em>Did you want to see the directions I typed up? What\'s the status on editing the CUIP wiki?</em></li>\n\n	<li>The case on C4 was not completely on properly, which prevented one from using the shutdown/restart buttons. I fixed this.</li>\n\n	<li>I finally moved the color laser printer from room 302 to Ms. Ahad\'s office, on her request. That\'s all set up, and I added it as a network printer to the main office computer as well. I also set up a password on the network interface for the printer in Lab 302; it\'s the same as the INSTR Canter tech password. I switched the drum unit for that printer with a drum unit from an identical model in the teacher\'s lounge -- as noted above, that printer in the teacher\'s lounge now has the same problems, while this one is working fine. <em>If you\'d like to check out the physical setup of the printer in Ms. Ahad\'s room, and make sure the desk can hold up the printer (unfortunately it won\'t fit exactly on the top, as it\'s about a quarter of an inch too long), be my guest.</em></li></ul>\n\n\n\nThought of the Week: \"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.\" Happy Holidays, and good luck to me (and everyone else) on finals! \n\n-Ben Hyman','Crunch time at Canter','','publish','open','closed','','crunch-time-at-canter','','','2007-12-04 10:01:06','2007-12-04 16:01:06','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/12/04/crunch-time-at-canter/',0,'post','',1),(343,10,'2007-12-06 21:15:29','2007-12-07 03:15:29','Your Name: Bryan Duff\nToday’s Date: 2007/12/06\nReporting on most recent week\nDay(s) worked or described: R\nTotal hours for week: 2.5\nThe School: Bret Harte\nKind of Work: Tech General\n\nToday we met to straighten out the lab.  We determined that four machines are not working, and that three of them require service calls to Dell.  Those were taken off the desk.\n\nThe wiring in the lab was also somewhat straightened out.  I\'m still pleased with how much neater things are on the west rows of computers (despite the massive hub), and the east side where Mitch was looks pretty good.  Hopefully at some point I\'ll have the chance to go through the east rows and straighten things out.\n\nThe lab will probably continue to be an issue as students are usually unsupervised in there.  It\'ll be better once Deep Freeze is added.\n\nThe data location for AR and other programs continues to be an issue.  I went to several rooms today to try and re-open the \\harte-srv01ALSDATA folder so the programs could access this, but I was locked out.  Mitch believes this has something to do with the new server not wanting a particular username - in this case school3780 - logging on too frequently.  This would make sense as to why I was locked out, because this username and password was saved in the machine.\n\nShaz did find online how to unsave or edit these passwords:\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/AdminTips/Security/RemoveSavedPasswords.html\">http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/AdminTips/Security/RemoveSavedPasswords.html</a></strong>\n\n<strong>CMD\nrundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr\n</strong>\n\nHopefully this can be straightened out soon.\n\nAlso, Mitch spoke with the librarian who says that everything seems to be working fine.  That\'s certainly a relief.\n\nIt was a great quarter for me at Harte and I feel like we made a lot of progress with things (though I understand we\'ve taken two steps forward and one step back a lot of times with the AR data).  I look forward to coming back next quarter, and as Shaz mentioned to me today, it\'ll be nice to start to do some more classroom specific stuff.  I look forward to working with Ms. Evans more, also.\n\nThanks a lot for the great quarter!  Hope you all have a nice break and I will see you when I get back.\n\nBest,\n\nBryan','Week 11 at Harte','','publish','open','closed','','week-11-at-harte','','','2007-12-06 21:15:29','2007-12-07 03:15:29','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/12/06/week-11-at-harte/',0,'post','',0),(344,39,'2007-12-10 09:10:45','2007-12-10 15:10:45','<strong>Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/12/10\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M T W F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 8:00 (making up for absence last week)\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Woodlawn\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, TechKnow\n\n<strong>TechKnow:</strong> Students began loading software this week.  We had some problems initially with lack of power strips (half of the \"raceway\" in the TechKnow room does not work).  A few computers experienced thermal shutdowns (mostly because heat sinks were not fully clamped to the processors fully).  I believe that everyone has Windows installed by now.\n\n<strong>Other Stuff:</strong> On Wednesday some technicians from CPS came to update the wireless cards in classroom computers; I swapped out two nonworking computers (one had a hard-disk failure and one had a mother board problem).  On Friday, I collected memory from nonworking computers to add to computers effected by the registry-size problem (result of a CPS \"update,\" apparently) and swapped out another computer. ','Woodlawn: Final(s) Week','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-finals-week','','','2007-12-10 09:10:45','2007-12-10 15:10:45','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/12/10/woodlawn-finals-week/',0,'post','',0),(345,38,'2007-12-11 20:50:02','2007-12-12 02:50:02','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/12/11\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M  W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 4</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>On Monday, I helped Ms. Alexander to set up a Powerpoint presentation which was to be used for Reading 3D training on Wednesday, and then showed Sara what I\'d been doing recently (putzing around in the computer lab, organizing things into piles, etc). Wednesday was basically a DIBELS disaster. Poor Ms. Prasad-Heintz had progress monitored all of her students on Tuesday and then attempted to sync her Palm in order to add a new student. She lost ALL of her data, AND the new student wasn\'t added! The most frustrating and distressing thing about this was that she had synced on a preexisting station (in that it was not one that I had set up) that I thought was free from the problems that we were having with my new sync stations. I then discovered that, since I am a goofball and neglected to unfreeze the computers in Ms. Alexander\'s room before setting up sync stations, the sync stations set up in the corners of her room were no longer. I then went to Ms. Prasad-Heintz\'s room and attempted to set up a sync station on one of her computers (carefully unfreezing it first), but I accidentally installed it on techco. The ensuing confusion with attempting to install it on the Dibbles account and not uninstalling things in the right order and so on and so forth resulted in the Dibbles account being locked out on at least two computers, and maybe for the whole school. Overall, DIBELS and I are really not getting along well at all, which is somewhat nervewracking because middle of the year benchmarking is coming up and the teachers are going to need as many sync stations as possible. What I\'d like to do when I get back is call 3-EXCL, ask them about the issues I\'ve been having with my sync stations (data being erased from Palms when teachers attempt to sync), install sync stations on the corner computers in Ms. Alexander\'s room (120), one of the computers in Ms. Prasad-Heintz\'s room (111?), and one of the computers in Mr. Joslin\'s room, and maybe figure out some way to back up DIBELS data onto an SD card so that it won\'t get lost in syncing incidents. This isn\'t a GIANT job, especially because I now have all of the necessary software for installing sync stations on my Flash drive, but I really want to get it done as quickly and efficiently as possible so that the teachers won\'t have to deal with losing benchmarking data.','Yikes! Unfortunately Belated Fermi Week 11 Update.','','publish','open','closed','','yikes-unfortunately-belated-fermi-week-11-update','','','2007-12-11 20:50:02','2007-12-12 02:50:02','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/12/11/yikes-unfortunately-belated-fermi-week-11-update/',0,'post','',1),(346,41,'2008-01-10 12:21:57','2008-01-10 18:21:57','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Han Zhu\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/1/10\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T Θ\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Project Prep, Helping Teacher\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This week has been pretty much about easing back into work.\n\nTuesday I familiarized myself with Study Island, the new web-based testing program for Shoesmith. I did some general data entry and setup. Sara stopped by and we talked about the status of all the projects that have already restarted and need to be picked up again as well as some new ones. I then stopped by Mrs. Cranley\'s room to check with her. She asked me to install some reading and math games on her class computer so her students could use the computers but after some dusty digging, I realized all the educational cds at Shoesmith are gone and all that\'s left are empty cases. I did show Mrs. Cranley how to install software on her computer with the one remaining Clifford game, but before I could get a list from her of acquisitions of cds she wanted the school to get, I had to leave. I\'ll get back to that when she\'s free again.\n\nThursday I did more work on Study Island. Mrs. Cranley was busy, so I put off showing her the sight-words project I\'ve been working on and the software stuff. I talked with Ms. Henderson and I\'ll be starting work on her blog soon. I scheduled time to talk with Mrs. Coffee and Coleman but they ended up having a meeting, so that\'s also put off for now. I played around with Audacity and Podpress for the first time until Mitch, Sara, and Joe stopped by and then we did some AR installations/updates from the new server.\n\n<strong>(Optional) What’s playing now?: This recording of a guy who put hissing cockroaches on his body and then recorded the hisses they made. Believe it or not, it\'s my Humanities class homework.</strong>','Week 1 (or 12?) at Shoesmith ','','publish','open','closed','','week-1-or-12-at-shoesmith','','','2008-01-10 12:21:57','2008-01-10 18:21:57','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/10/week-1-or-12-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',2),(347,10,'2008-01-11 15:18:16','2008-01-11 21:18:16','Bryan Duff\nBret Harte\nThursday 1:30-2:30, Friday 12:30-3:30\nTech General\nMitch stopped by today and instructed me on how to fix the latest batch of AR/AM problems.  Basically, we\'ll start phasing in the stu-3780-# logins.  I did this in several rooms today that reported problems, but those rooms that aren\'t having trouble with these programs I left as is.  This was mostly because there weren\'t teachers around, and I\'d want to be able to explain to them in person that they need to login differently.  I will continue to search out each teacher in order to make sure all of the rooms eventually comply with this new login policy.\n\nThere\'s a computer in 110 that seems to have been fried over break by some sort of surge.  I need to speak with Ms. Evans to get the Windows XP CD\'s so I can try to re-image it.  This reminds me: what is the policy on teachers leaving their computers on at all times?  Should I tell them its a bad idea?\n\nRoom 208 needs a new printer.  The lab does also.  Mrs. Parks is aware of this but I need to remind her.\n\nThere was a complaint today that the Wiggleworks program is no longer working.  I checked and apparently this is because it was a shortcut to a program saved on the network drive W:.  I didn\'t see anything about Wiggleworks in \\harte-srv01 so I\'m unsure what to do.\n\nLong standing issues:\n\nI\'d like to clean out the MDF.  There\'s a lot of old junk in there.\n\nAlso, at some point the wires on the east wall of the computer lab need to be untangeled and organized.\n\nI also need to call Dell for repairs to the 3 dead CPU\'s in the lab.\n\nOther than that, it was a good week back at Harte!','Week 1 at Harte','','publish','open','closed','','week-1-at-harte','','','2008-01-11 15:18:16','2008-01-11 21:18:16','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/11/week-1-at-harte/',0,'post','',1),(348,39,'2008-01-11 15:23:24','2008-01-11 21:23:24','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Sasha\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/1/11\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> Th  F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>4\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Woodlawn Community School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nMost of the work this week was increasing the amount of RAM in the computers--computers running slowly were given an extra 128 Mb.  In addition, I updated the computer in the library running Windows 98 to Windows 2000 and ran the CPS remidiation on a few machines.  I think that the memory is ready for the laptops now, so I will begin installation/other work on laptops when I get the okay/visit from Russ.','Woodlawn: the next Week 1','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-the-next-week-1','','','2008-01-11 15:23:24','2008-01-11 21:23:24','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/11/woodlawn-the-next-week-1/',0,'post','',0),(349,34,'2008-01-11 16:08:53','2008-01-11 22:08:53','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/1/11\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nTuesday, I checked a lot of the computers in the lab to make sure that the printer in the Lab was the only one on the list of printers, and that it had been installed correctly (this had been on my to-do list for a while). This turned out to be a good idea, since I found a few with the Microsoft Office Document Imaging printer, as well as the lab printer. I also shuffled around the toner, since the lab printer was nearly completely out, so that now, the printer in the lounge has both the bad drum unit and a very low toner cartridge. I\'m not sure what kind of use that gets, though. I also helped a teacher print out practice ISAT reading questions, which proved unexpectedly difficult, but was eventually accomplished.\n\nFriday I set to work checking on the computers that were previously in the teacher\'s bathroom (I found out about those on Tuesday). There were two monitors, two CPUs, two keyboards, and two mouses...the mouses were both missing balls, and one of the keyboards is missing keys, so that cuts down on their utility. One of the CPUs has Windows 98, but the other already has Windows 2K. It was missing one of the standard school accounts, so I ran the \"Standard Accounts\" executable provided to me, except after I logged it, it looked like I had been locked out of the techco acccount! I\'ll take a look this Tuesday, since I stopped working on it after that. Both monitors look okay, and one of them is a nicer Dell one that can definitely be put to use.\n\nI finished up the printer checkup job I started on Tuesday. I thusly found two computers with 128 MB of memory, which caused several problems even though they had been okay before (but I did not see the problem caused by the earlier INSTR update). Since there were two disconnected computers of the same model off to the side, I opened those up and snatched the RAM. Eventually, both of the memory-challenged computers were up and running with 256 MB of RAM (although one has 4 64 MB chips and one has 2 128 MB chips). Since I thought these computers could now handle Deep Freeze, I went ahead and installed that successfully. The two computers are C5 and E1, by the way.\n\nWhat I\'d most like to do next week is upgrade the Windows 98 computers to Windows 2K. I\'m pretty sure they all have 128 MB of memory, but hopefully that won\'t be a problem. I\'ve presided over OS installations and can restore an image to a drive, but I presume CUIP has a special disk or something. Can you, Mitch or Russ, stop by on Tuesday morning if you have time to let me know what I should do? Thanks!\n\n<strong>Remaining Issues</strong>:\n<ul>\n	<li>DeepFreeze Remote Console, eventually. I know Russ said he would take care of that later.</li>\n	<li>Experimenting with the spare printers lying around.</li>\n	<li>Working with Russ to set up a wiki (is this still even necessary?), as well as getting back to the teachers who had been interested in the blog. I haven\'t heard back from them, though.</li>\n	<li>A long-term labeling solution for the computers.</li>\n	<li>The report sheets for general usage, and my schedule.</li>\n</ul>\nThought of the Week: Anyone thought of installing Linux on a spare CPU or two and letting the kids play around with it? If we have one of the Windows 98 computers that we don\'t want to upgrade, for example...just a thought! Also, and I keep forgetting to do this since I have a Mac at home and don\'t use Internet Explorer, but I should go ahead and figure out what ails the CUIP NSP reporting website (or WP theme) in IE6. There\'s a bug or two we can work out...there\'s someone who\'s already working on the site, right?\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 1 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-1-canter','','','2008-01-11 16:08:53','2008-01-11 22:08:53','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/11/week-1-canter/',0,'post','',1),(350,33,'2008-01-11 17:22:25','2008-01-11 23:22:25','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/1/11\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 1/7/2008]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Lab maintenance)\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nWell, the printers are broken.  But, more importantly Joe and I spent the first two days back cleaning up all the computers. Not only did we find some nice (rather depressing) writing, we got excited as we prepared to install what I\'ve been dreaming about for months: Deep Freeze.\n\n So, today, I did some second round cleaning and installed the seeds on various computers while Joe navigated the labyrinthian depths of CPS bureaucracy on the phone.  I HAVE THE OTP TOKEN I NEED THE OTP PASSWORD.\n\n<img width=\"619\" src=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ready_for_valhalla.jpg\" alt=\"ready_for_valhalla.jpg\" height=\"810\" />\n\nEventually we got the admin console installed, but it still didn\'t work!  So, somehow through sheer will power, and maybe some Gmail advice from a co-worker, Joe figured out that we needed get the IP address for the Mollison compliance page.  Well, that\'s where I came in, and in a glorious moment of teamwork, I pinged the mollison-adm01 and delivered the goods verbally to Joe.  A few keystrokes later, Deep Freeze finally worked and we had COMPLETE KONTROL!!!!\n\n :) \n\n<strong>Currently Reading:</strong> Thomas Pynchon - Gravity\'s Rainbow','Mollison Week 1: The Deep Freeze','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-week-1-the-deep-freeze','','','2008-01-11 17:22:25','2008-01-11 23:22:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/11/mollison-week-1-the-deep-freeze/',0,'post','',1),(354,41,'2008-01-17 16:18:01','2008-01-17 22:18:01','Your Name: Han Zhu\n\nToday’s Date: 2008/1/17\n\nDay(s) worked or described: T Θ\n\nTotal hours for week: 6\n\nThe School: Shoesmith\n\nKind of Work: Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab Supervision\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\nTuesday I dealt with some issues on Study Island. I think I\'m going to need to go back and fix all the student users I didn\'t put in because some of them have typos. It makes logging in during class for the students really time consuming and problematic. Sara came by and we went over with Mrs. Cranley how to update her blog with the newsletter. I then made blogging instructions for her complete with screenshots. I also worked on Ms. Lee\'s blog, but didn\'t get time to finish before I left.\n\nThursday I finished updating Ms. Lee\'s blog, showed and emailed to Mrs. Cranley the blogging instructions, and worked around the lab helping students print (since Mr. Willis has taken the printer offline on all but one of the computers in the lab) and doing general fixer-upping. I finally talked to Ms. Coffee and told her about the new podcasting abilities in the lab and other possible projects, but I think all she wants to do is just update her blog from time to time and just have her students comment on it. I also went through Study Island and fixed the typos.','Week 2 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-2-at-shoesmith','','','2008-01-17 16:18:01','2008-01-17 22:18:01','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/17/week-2-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',0),(441,34,'2008-03-14 17:09:21','2008-03-14 23:09:21','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/3/14\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5.6\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\nI think this was a pretty productive week! Before I showed up on Tuesday, I\'d gotten an email from Ms. Spector asking for some blogging help, which I quickly responded to, and then also got an email from Ms. Ahad giving me permission to shuffle some computers around the school.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nTo that end, when I got to work on Tuesday, I moved the computer (and peripherals) from Ms. Escalona\'s room to the computer lab. I got so busy on Tuesday that I didn\'t actually have a chance to take a closer look at it, though! In no particular order, here\'s what I did: copied down all the serial numbers I could find on the new printer boxes; took a look at the whiteboard to see if we could get it working; started the renaming process on computers around the school; helped another social worker set up her ChildServe account; tried taking care of the display drivers on E5; tried diagnosing a graphics problem on the computer in 101; helped Ms. LaCour with some new financial-record-keeping software for the school. I also found another computer in the teacher\'s bathroom!\n\nFriday was a bit less hectic. I was able to go to nearly every computer in the school and make sure that they all met the new description convention; in this process, I found several computers that looked like they weren\'t in use, and could possibly be salvaged/relocated to serve better purposes. I also ran the \"Standard Accounts\" program on one that didn\'t have all the...well, standard accounts.\n\nI moved the CPU from the teacher\'s bathroom up to the computer lab, but didn\'t have a chance to check it before I had to leave. I also took a look at the computer I moved from Ms. Escalona\'s room back on Tuesday; to my eternal frustration, the RAM it had in it was a) proprietary and b)impossible to get at and remove without a screwdriver, so I couldn\'t even combine it with the other RAM of the same proprietary type. I had hopes of doing this in one of the CPUs, and then replacing one of the faulty-memory ones in the computer lab with this one; otherwise, we\'ve just got good (albeit proprietary) memory going to waste. It\'s difficult for me to explain, but I\'ll keep you updated.\n\nThere are spare computers (at least one per room, in some cases more) in the following rooms:\n\n101\n103\n203\n306\n\n<strong>Questions for you guys for next quarter</strong>\n<ul>\n<li>NEW PRINTERS! Russ, can you please send me an email about the procedure for this?</li>\n<li>Does CUIP have any F/F serial cables so I can test out that whiteboard I mentioned above?</li>\n<li>I mentioned that on Tuesday, I tried diagnosing a graphics problem in room 101. I didn\'t get too close a chance to look at it, and can try harder after Spring Break, but do either of you have any experience with all windows leaving horizontal shadows that extend all the way to both sides of the screen?</li>\n<li>One of the computers in the lab has a bad name - it\'s obviously an instructional computer, but it starts with \"A\", for administrative. Should I go ahead and just change that, or instead use CPS\' \"Correct Computer Name\" script?</li>\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n<strong>Reminders for myself for next quarter</strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Pursuing the spare computers</li>\n<li>Sending Ms. LaCour directions for the financial-record-keeping software.</li>\n<li>Not forgetting that i\'ve started keeping some files on the canter server, under \\canter-srv02usersstaffbhyman4260. this includes the list of printer serial numbers.</li>\n<li>Checking naming in Room 207, and seeing if some of those computers can be moved out of there</li>\n<li>Making sure the descriptions on computers C3, C4, E1, and E3-E5 are okay.</li>\n<li>Resolving memory issues on C3, E3-E5, and finding display drivers for E5/others.</li>\n<li>Following up on the computer from the teacher\'s bathroom, and the ones with the proprietary memory</li>\n<li>Possible memory issues in room 106</li>\n<li>Space on computer in room 304</li>\n<li>Using Canter\'s compliance website</li>\n<li>Editing the theme for this site. That may not be something I can do too well at Canter, or at least not without my laptop.</li>\n<li>I still have hope for DeepFreeze, sometime!</li>\n\n</ul>\n\n<strong>\"Nonsense wakes up the brain.\" Theodor Seuss Geisel</strong>\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 10 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-10-canter','','','2008-03-14 17:09:21','2008-03-14 23:09:21','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/03/14/week-10-canter/',0,'post','',0),(352,38,'2008-01-14 08:09:33','2008-01-14 14:09:33','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/1/14\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W  F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 4</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi\n</strong><em>(Since the school is in the headers here, and in the checkbox Categories, don’t bother to also eter it as a tag.)</em>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nYipes! Sorry this is so late -- I\'m dashing it off before I leave for Fermi today so it will be short. On Wednesday, I zoomed around and installed DIBELS on any school computer I could find using that handy new software package. It was a delight, to say the least. On Friday, I encountered a <strong>tech mystery</strong> which baffled 3-EXCL and which I now pose to you. I had noticed that two of the computers up in the teacher resource room were having a problem. They were connected to good ethernet ports (with good cables) and recognized that they were connected to the internet, but they refused to access the internet. I moved one of these computers to Ms. Alexander\'s room (120) to satisfy her request for a Dell, and the change in ethernet port did nothing. I spent about 45 minutes on the phone with 3-EXCL, and we learned that the only thing the computer can ping is itself. 3-EXCL suggested it was a problem with the network card -- what do you think? I wanted to consult with CUIP before I had a technician come out to the school. Any help would be much appreciated! I also fixed Dr. Cima\'s printer (low ink, a few other issues), but that was far less mysterious.','Fermi -- Week 1','','publish','open','closed','','fermi-week-1','','','2008-01-14 08:09:33','2008-01-14 14:09:33','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/14/fermi-week-1/',0,'post','',1),(353,37,'2008-01-14 15:14:26','2008-01-14 21:14:26','<p><strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/1/14\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described: Thurs, Fri</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 5</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi\n</strong><em>(Since the school is in the headers here, and in the checkbox Categories, don’t bother to also eter it as a tag.)</em>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nOn Thursday, I worked on the computers in the teacher\'s resource room, to see if they could connect to the internet (see also Emily\'s post below).  I tried everything, but didn\'t have any more luck with it than she did.  During the second half of the day, I started a check of all of the computers  in the lab.  A surprising number will not access the internet, and I don\'t know why.  I fixed resolution and background issues on some others.  On Friday, I completed the lab check, and then went to Ms. Alexander\'s room to tackle her internet problem.  By this point, I was starting to suspect the network adapter might need new drivers, but before I could figure out which ones to download, I had to leave.  Hopefully, I\'ll be able to attempt the driver thing next week.','Week 1 at Fermi (Dana\'s End)','','publish','open','closed','','week-1-at-fermi-danas-end','','','2008-01-14 15:14:26','2008-01-14 21:14:26','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/14/week-1-at-fermi-danas-end/',0,'post','',0),(355,33,'2008-01-18 15:35:17','2008-01-18 21:35:17','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/1/18\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 1/14/2008]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 7\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Lab maintenance)\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nMonday was largely devoted to double checking the frozen computers to make sure that an easy to click Study Island icon existed on all the desktops.  That actually took an entire day, because each computer had to be thawed and refrozen etc. etc.\n\nWednesday: Shaz, Joe and I prepared for the arrival of every student on Thursday and Friday and first real test of the labs usability so to speak.  I also fixed a tricky Palm Pilot issue for Mrs. Clarke.\n\nFriday: Study Island use had begun and the lab was being used.  Great success!  I was excited to see that most students and teachers had no problem using the lab or logging in or any of that generally irritating nonsense.\n\nHowever, to soil our great day of success, I decided to mess with the printers.  The finicky HP is our only real hope in this case and works only when it wants to.  Unfortunately, the large Lexmarck reported a non-existent paper jam.  So, I got one of the printers from the printer pile and set it up.  It also gave me a fatal paper jam error.  So, I decided to unscrew it and much to my surprise a small plastic thing had gotten unseated at some point.  So, I put it back in.  But, as I put the piece I had unscrewed back in, something broke!  The piece I had reseated had snapped in half, and indeed, it was made of skinny crappy plastic.   That is all to say, I hate printers.\n\n<strong>Currently Reading:</strong>','Mollison Week 2: Study Island','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-week-2-study-island','','','2008-01-18 15:35:17','2008-01-18 21:35:17','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/18/mollison-week-2-study-island/',0,'post','',0),(356,39,'2008-01-18 15:38:29','2008-01-18 21:38:29','Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko\n\nToday’s Date: 2008/1/18\n\nDay(s) worked or described: M T Th F\n\nTotal hours for week: 6.75\n\nThe School: Woodlawn Community School\n\nKind of Work: Tech general, Helping Teacher, Laptops\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\n1. Much effort was put into remediating a Windows 2000 machine, but very little luck was had.  More attempts next week.\n\n2. I installed Flash player and Shockwave on all of the lab computers.\n\n3. I installed more memory (256 MB DIMMs, I believe) in all of the laptops and began exposing them to Windows and CPS updates (at least one machine still had the Zprotect user!).  Next week: more of the same.\n\n4. I insalled more memory in a few more classroom computers.','Woodlawn: Week 2','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-2','','','2008-01-18 15:38:29','2008-01-18 21:38:29','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/18/woodlawn-week-2/',0,'post','',0),(357,10,'2008-01-18 16:13:13','2008-01-18 22:13:13','Bryan Duff\nTech General\nFriday 12:30-3:30\nBret Harte Elementary\n\nIf you read my last entry, you might remember me crafting a list of projects that I\'d like to get done this quarter at Harte.  Unfortunately, I\'ve done little to make any progress on any of those goals in the past week.  \n\nAfter arriving, I was told that I was needed urgently in room 101.  Ms. Evans did write in the journal that one of the computers was not working, but I was instead asked to help a teacher configure her new Palm Pilot.  I next went to room 102.    I had been there last week to implement the new stu-3780-# logins.  This past Monday, Ms. Evans sent me a firm notice that this had not gone over well in the four classrooms I visited because teachers could not find their files (saved as documents under the generic school login).  This was my mistake and I apologized to Ms. Evans and each teacher for not communicating this difference.  Luckily, Ms. Evans was able to tell teachers that they could log back into their old student logins.\n\nIn 102, I moved the documents over from the school folder to the stu-3780-3 folders.  One computer was not working (the previous week the computer\'s fan had been exceptionally loud.  I dusted the inside of the machine and it seemed to work a little better.  Though, today the teacher in 102 thought that maybe I had dusted it too hard last week) and Ms. Evans said to switch it out with a working one in the lab.  This now means that there are 5 computers that do not work in the lab.  I will be going in Wednesday morning specifically with the intention of calling Dell about these machines.  I will probably only deal with other computer questions if they are an emergency.\n\nI also setup the teacher\'s computer so that she will now login using her CPS username and password on the INSTR domain.  I remembered to move all of her files over from the \"student\" login user file.  She, as with the other three teachers I did this with today, loved this idea.  All the teachers told me that using their CPS login made more sense organizationally.  They were also relieved that they were now responsible for one less password, and that their computers were not less vulnerable to students.  \n\nAfter that, I ended up staying in 102 for over an hour to help set up a VCR.  This was not intentional.  I tried to leave, but I kept getting dragged back in.  The one time I did leave, I was summoned by the intercom.  I eventually concluded that the TV was too old to be configured for the new VCR, but the janitor insisted that this was false.  It turns out he was right and that there was a way to hook the two up.  This happened twenty minutes after I had left the room. The janitor, too, called me back over the intercom to explain to me how I had been wrong.\n\nThere is a computer in 110 that needs to be reimaged.  I didn\'t get to yet, but hopefully I will next week.  \n\nA few teachers feel like the lab printer is too old because he gets jammed frequently.  I think it\'s overused.  I\'m going to mention something about it to Ms. Parks and also make sure that individual classroom printers remain to be networked and set as default.  This should take some of the stress of off the lab printer.\n\nI may or may not have asked this last week, but what is CPS\' policy regarding shutting machines down over the weekend?\n\nSo, the concluding thought is that I actually have one more goal at Ray: to make sure that all teachers login to their machines with their CPS logins.\n\nHave a nice, happy, long weekend.\n\nBryan','Harte: Week 2','','publish','open','closed','','harte-week-2','','','2008-01-18 16:13:13','2008-01-18 22:13:13','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/18/harte-week-2/',0,'post','',0),(358,34,'2008-01-18 16:23:00','2008-01-18 22:23:00','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/1/18\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nTuesday, I took care of the recent account-remediated computer, making sure everything was okay. I also started the Windows 2K installation process on the computer I took up from the bathroom last week, but had to leave before it was finished. A fair amount of time was spent considering the best way to back up the meager number of files on that computer; it\'s difficult when Windows 98 doesn\'t recognize your flash drive and there\'s no floppy disk handy. Ultimately I think I used a command line SFTP program to upload it to my space at U.Chicago -- I doubt the backup was even necessary, but there you go. More on that in the Friday narrative.\n\nI got to Canter Friday and went to check on the computer that had been upgraded to Windows 2K that Tuesday. It looked like the installation went fine. After some time spent taking care of other things, I downloaded the entire 500 MB remediation package and ran that ... is it supposed to take an extraordinarily long time? It\'s been running for at least an hour, and finished (as far as I know) the second-to-last-step (System Patches) before restarting and then stuck on a blue screen as if explorer.exe hadn\'t been started (not that kind of blue screen, though!). Hang on (yes, this is real-time blogging) -- I just started explorer.exe manually using the Task Manager, and then everything kicked back up again. However, I still don\'t believe it\'s done yet; I\'ll have to check back on Tuesday. Is that normal?\n\nAnyway, I had two teachers approach me with problems today, both of which I ultimately diagnosed as memory-related problems of the type that appeared back in fall quarter. When I had the problems on other computers, they pretty much went away by themselves, and I don\'t think I can increase the virtual memory anymore than it already is. By the end of my three-hour session, I had gotten so frustrated with another Windows 98 computer (more on that later) that I impulsively opened it up, snatched the memory, and put it in one of the faulty computers (they were the same model...it wasn\'t really *that* impulsive of a decision).\n\nOne of the computers is still low on memory, but the symptoms weren\'t quite as bad as for the computer to which I added new memory. As a temporary solution, I\'ve logged into the generic school account (which doesn\'t seem to cause as many memory-related problems as logging into the INSTR domain), and told the teacher to just stay logged in on that. Do we have any alternatives?\n\nAh, and now to my Windows 98 archnemesis. This is a computer in the teacher\'s lounge, which I was going to back up and update today. Turns out it can pick up my jump drive but has no drivers for it, and the Internet does not work. My handy Ubuntu CD didn\'t seem to want to boot on it either...it started loading the file system and then the display sorta cut out. Right now, since I took the RAM out of it, it won\'t really function. Maybe next time I can hook up the hard drive to another CPU as a slave, and pull all the data off of it...but that still leaves the problem of where I\'ll get new memory.\n\nI also had another teacher inform me of a problem with their monitor which I\'ll have to address Tuesday.\n\nAs for the CUIP website I referred to in my <a href=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/11/week-1-canter/\">post last week</a>, I actually meant the NSP reporting website on which you\'re currently reading this. Next time, when I have a chance, I\'ll sit down and list out the visual problems I\'m seeing.\n\nAnyway, I\'ve decided that in many cases, backing up, upgrading, and remediating a computer is one of the most soul-crushing things a human being can do! Hehe ;-).\n\n<strong>Remaining Issues</strong>:\n<ul>\n	<li>DeepFreeze Remote Console, eventually. I know Russ said he would take care of that later.</li>\n	<li>Experimenting with the spare printers lying around.</li>\n	<li>Working with Russ to set up a wiki (is this still even necessary?), as well as getting back to the teachers who had been interested in the blog. I haven\'t heard back from them, though.</li>\n	<li>A long-term labeling solution for the computers.</li>\n	<li>The report sheets for general usage, and my schedule.</li>\n</ul>\nThought of the Week: Same as last week (sorry, the notion\'s stuck in my head!): anyone thought of installing Linux on a spare CPU or two and letting the kids play around with it? If we have one of the Windows 98 computers that we don\'t want to upgrade, for example...just a thought!\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 2 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-2-canter','','','2008-01-18 16:23:00','2008-01-18 22:23:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/18/week-2-canter/',0,'post','',1),(359,37,'2008-01-21 01:34:18','2008-01-21 07:34:18','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Dana Lutenegger\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/1/21\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tues, Thurs, Fri\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 7\n<strong>The School</strong>: Fermi Elementary\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General/Repair\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nOn Tuesda, I was flagged down almost immediately by Mr. Hinton, whose internet and printer were not working.  Suspecting that the internet problem from last week was spreading, I tried all of the usual tricks and found no answers.  After a chat with Shaz, I decided to try installing a new version of the network adapter drivers for the computer.  This actually took a while, because I had to get several unreliable computers to recognize my unreliable USB key.  Finally, I got the drivers on to the right computer and installed them.  They were nifty and new, but did nothing to solve the problem.  I fiddled with it a while longer, and then had to go home without success.\n\nOn Thursday, I first inspected the computers in the teacher\'s resource room, finding that creating a new local connection was not a good strategy, but manually entering addresses is.  With this in mind, I returned to Mr. Hinton\'s room and fixed his computers.  At his request, I also set up a second computer in his room to print over the network to his HP 1022n.  I might have to go back next week and check those computers, come to think of it, because I can\'t remember if I set them to a static ip address, or if I set them to a dynamic one by mistake.\n\nOn Friday, the great computer lab fix was underway, as I went through setting every computer with the internet problem to use manual static IP addresses.  The chart of IP addresses I used is on Google Docs and shared to Mitch and CUIP.  The only computers I skipped were computers whose internet still seemed to be working, and computers that were broken in other ways.  I had so many computers to set, I didn\'t want myself to get sidetracked too easily.  I finished it all up, made the spreadsheet, and headed out.\n\nNext week we\'ll have to permanently resolve this issue, and reset a lot of computers.  Mr. Hinton also needs a program installed for his afterschool program on Tuesday.','Week 2 at Fermi (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','week-2-at-fermi-dana','','','2008-01-21 01:34:18','2008-01-21 07:34:18','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/21/week-2-at-fermi-dana/',0,'post','',0),(360,41,'2008-01-24 11:36:43','2008-01-24 17:36:43','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Han Zhu\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/1/25\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T Θ\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Project Prep, Lab Supervision\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nTuesday I updated the Shoesmith K blog with the sight words \"flashcards\". I also started prep on Ms. Lee\'s country project. I\'ve been trying to figure out an efficient way to have approx 150 kids (+/- 10) each make their own PowerPoint slide to be combined into one slideshow for each class. I ended up screenshotting a sample slide I made up and then typing up an info sheet with a blank slide for the kids to write and draw out what they want. I\'m hoping if they can fill out the sheet before they come to the lab to work with me, then it\'ll make the process a lot faster. I also finally managed to track down Mrs. Coleman and get the details of her literary blog hammered out.\n\nThursday I did some setting-up of Mrs. Coleman\'s literary blog. I ran into a problem though, because I couldn\'t set up a new cuipblogs user, so I couldn\'t add a student user to the blog.  Unfortunately, a miscommunication led to me teaching 10 of Mrs. Coleman\'s kids how to use the blog anyways - no matter, I\'ll just let them know their real login and password soon. During Mrs. Coleman\'s scheduled computer lab time, I also ended up letting five of her kids post on the blog and play around with comments and whatnot. It went well - but there\'s going to be a few weeks of adjustment and a learning period. I also showed the kids the audio recordings Sara had did for Ms. Lee and asked if they would be interested in doing a project like that, and of course they were, so that\'s an idea for the future. I also did some work on Ms. Henderson\'s blog and finally updated it. Sara came by and fixed the student user problem. I also updated the Shoesmith school website with new teacher webpages and info. I hope next week, once grades are all squared away, I can meet with more teachers than I did this week and get more things done.','Week 3 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-3-at-shoesmith','','','2008-01-24 11:36:43','2008-01-24 17:36:43','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/24/week-3-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',0),(361,38,'2008-01-22 19:55:06','2008-01-23 01:55:06','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/1/22\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, tech general, more tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nMonday was relatively quiet -- I can\'t remember it too well, but I think I spent the day fixing printers (most specifically, Mr. Orekoya\'s and Dr. Cima\'s) and creating sync stations everywhere I could. Wednesday, on the other hand, was much more memorable. When I came in, I was informed that the internet was down in about half of the building. The problem became even more daunting when I discovered that the computers having internet problems were showing the same symptoms as the Dell with which I\'d been having issues last week: the computer sees the internet and thinks it\'s connected, but refuses to access the internet. Fortunately, Sara arrived just as I was ready to enter a major panic. We did some detective work around the school that included finding and power-cycling  concentrator boxes (unfortunately, not effective), and comparing the IP addresses of functional and nonfunctional computers. The comparisons we made provided us a useful clue in the form of some rogue IP addresses which appeared on the broken computers and did not match those held by the functioning computers. Mitch and Dana worked some computing magic on Thursday, and when I returned on Friday they had developed a few solutions to this mysterious epidemic. I didn\'t get to implement them too broadly, however, since most of my day was spent installing programs on the computers in 107 (maybe? the special ed kindergarten with the sweet touch-screen computers), fixing more printers, and running around the school telling people that the internet was down everywhere, not just on their computer, and that we were attempting to fix the problem. Fortunately, the rest of the Fermi CUIP crew again came through on Tuesday and negotiated with technicians and computer components of all sorts to solve the mystery of the missing internet! Things seem to be all better now, so tomorrow\'s work will revolve around installing programs on the computer lab machines and resetting these computers to the automatic IP settings.','Attack of the Fermi, Week 2','','publish','open','closed','','attack-of-the-fermi-week-2','','','2008-01-22 19:55:06','2008-01-23 01:55:06','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/22/attack-of-the-fermi-week-2/',0,'post','',0),(362,42,'2008-01-23 15:05:36','2008-01-23 21:05:36','<strong>Your Name: Clare Wolfe</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/1/23\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 2.5</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Till</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work: </strong>Library work\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nLast week was pretty quiet, so I thought I would just stick it in with today. I mostly did online research for Mrs. Jacobson. The 3rd grade kids were doing reports on Black History Month and so I found some websites and then helped break down the information for some students. I talked with one teacher about doing more intensive book reports for her class, but her thoughts are mostly unformed as of yet. I plugged in and tested all the audio equipment in the computer lab. I also worked with Sara on the book reporting blog, which made me think of updating the school website. I\'m planning to meet with Mrs. Sudduth to find out what she wants to do with the site (having been the site admin last year), and figure out how to use Dreamweaver. Mrs. Davis\' computer is having problems: says \"Operating system not found\" at start up. She says that it wasn\'t working when she came back from the summer, but that it was fine last year. From what I can tell , the BIOS is not reading her harddrive and it\'s a hardware problem. The computer is ancient, so I don\'t know how helpful Hewlett Packer will be. Today I helped two kids with their story projects--which consisted of me typing their stories so they could draw pictures--and helping some other kids with an online book test.\n\nMy upcoming projects, to summarize, are Mrs. Davis\' computer, the website with Mrs. Sudduth, procuring about 5 more 5$ headphone adapters for the comp lab, and figuring out a more effective way to help the kids with their online projects.','Finally Busy at Till: Weeks 2 & 3','','publish','open','closed','','finally-busy-at-till-weeks-2-3','','','2008-01-23 15:05:36','2008-01-23 21:05:36','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/23/finally-busy-at-till-weeks-2-3/',0,'post','',0),(363,35,'2008-01-23 11:59:03','2008-01-23 17:59:03','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Zhang Zhang\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/1/23\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: MWF\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 6\n<strong>The School</strong>: Ray Elementary\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General/Repair\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nI came back to find many more of the IBM Netvistas with the insufficient memory problems. The good thing is that after a few hours of defragmenting the HD, and moving the virtual memory to a separate partition, the computers became usable again. The computer lab is in good shape, and is seeing much more usage than before.\n\nThere is, however, the strange case of computers, monitors, and printers turning up in the corner of the hallway, right in front of the technology storage room at the rate of about 5-6 per week. Are these computers not working? Should they go into the storage room? I\'ve moved several inside already for safety, but more and more keep piling up... Does someone keep track of computer inventory?','Week 2 @ Ray','','publish','open','closed','','week-2-ray','','','2008-01-23 11:59:03','2008-01-23 17:59:03','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/23/week-2-ray/',0,'post','',0),(364,33,'2008-01-25 11:27:14','2008-01-25 17:27:14','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/1/25\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 1/21/2008]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 5\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Lab maintenance)\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong> This week has been remarkably similar to the week prior.  There seems to be a perpetual need to alter printers and tinker with them to infinity.  Hopefully one of the printers will give me a clean print today, otherwise...!!  I KILL!\n\nThere was a Study Island workshop today, it seems like the teachers are getting the hang of it, which means I got to add users here and there.  It\'s a bit of a quiet day today at Mollison because the students are out.  Perfect time for me to take on this printer one on one.  If I go missing, you will all know what happened to me.  Tell my tale of heroic struggle against the forces of irrational machinery that haunt my waking thoughts!\n\nP.S. Deep Freeze is still awesome.\n\n <strong>Currently Reading:</strong> Calculus, more specifically Partial Fraction Decomposition.','Mollison Week 3: Week 2?','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-week-3-week-2','','','2008-01-25 11:27:14','2008-01-25 17:27:14','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/25/mollison-week-3-week-2/',0,'post','',0),(365,34,'2008-01-25 16:06:22','2008-01-25 22:06:22','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/1/25\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nOkay, I don\'t know if you can own (\"pwn\") an operating system, but that\'s what I did Tuesday. If you\'ll forgive the unprofessionalism, I pretty much spanked Windows 98. After trying futilely to recover the documents on one of the \'98 systems last week (I\'d also removed the memory last week), I opened up the case again and removed the hard drive. Since we didn\'t have a spare IDE cable handy, I simply replaced the hard drive on another CPU with this one. After some time to let Windows 98 pick up the new hardware, I was able to download a set of generic USB drivers from the Internet (which I hadn\'t been able to do earlier, but the different network card in the new CPU was working), and finally get my flash drive to work. I backed up all the files (a pathetic number of MB for all that trouble), switched back the hard drives, and gave the worthless Windows 98 CPU a metaphorical kick in the pants (remember, there\'s no memory in it now, and now I have all of the hard drive data backed up). Of course, this was before I got Mitch\'s email about USB hard drive enclosures ... still, it was a fun challenge. Right before I left, I discovered that the other computer in the lounge wasn\'t sending anything to the monitor, but I had to leave.\n\nFriday I took a look at the computer in the lounge where the monitor wasn\'t working. I finally got the case open (I\'d attempted to on Friday and encountered much difficulty!), but nothing looked horribly wrong inside. I knew it wasn\'t a monitor issue because I hooked the computer up to another monitor and saw the same problem. The graphics card was fairly difficult to reseat because of some poor engineering, but I was able to do so successfully anyway. After I completely reseated it, I was finally able to see the BIOS starting up (and presumably would have seen Windows start up as well, but I didn\'t bother to wait since it wasn\'t a software thing). However, after I sealed up the case and everything, the problem appeared again, and this time reseating did nothing! A spare graphics card I took out of another non-functional computer wouldn\'t fit in the PCI slot. I\'ll see if I can find any more, but I don\'t know. Something that\'s quite interesting is that I removed the graphics card entirely but the computer still started up without any POST complaints. Any ideas?\n\nI moved the non-functional-graphics-card computer upstairs and finally got around to placing two functional computers in the teacher\'s lounge. However, I\'m not satisfied with either of them -- for some reason, the Internet connection on one of them is pretty slow (however, I finally joined it to the INSTR domain today!), and the other one only has 128 MB of memory and is complaining about it. I\'ll see what I can do about those problems, but I\'m not holding out much hope for memory.\n\nAh, memory. I can\'t believe my MacBook has 16 times as much memory as a fair number of these computers. I\'m running out of memory to switch around. Mr. Fishbein (from last week) informed me that his computer was still running slow; since he felt it was a big enough of an issue, I took 128 MB out of a lab computer with 256 MB (I\'d redistributed this as well last week) and put it in his. So now his student computer has 256 MB, and the lab computer is back to 128 MB. He shouldn\'t have any more problems, but I\'m concerned about other computers, like the ones in the teacher\'s lounge I mentioned above; I also need to check on Tuesday whether the computer that has 128 MB will complain about it, since that\'s what it was doing before that necessitated the RAM redistribution last week.\n\nApparently there\'s a new teacher at the school who needs a computer. The teacher who informed me of this also told me that she had an extra computer in her room which I could give to the new teacher. I\'ll have to do this on Tuesday because the room where the computer I was to move turned out to be locked. It should be a spare computer in room 202 going to room 105.\n\nI\'m also seeing a hard drive error on E1, the same computer I\'d seen it on before. This was not a random error: I had to open up the casing to check on the RAM (to see if there was any I could redistribute, as per two paragraphs above), and I may have jostled something. I\'ll take care of it on Tuesday.\n\nUnfortunately, today seemed pretty futile with all the memory problems that popped up, and the graphics card issue I wasn\'t able to solve :-(. Still, I appreciate the chance to improve my skills working with hardware, since it\'s something I\'d had little past experience with.\n\nAs for Tuesday, I\'ll fix E1, take care of the computer for the new teacher, and see if I have time for memory issues and graphics card issues.\n\n<strong>Remaining Issues, see <a href=\"http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/18/week-2-canter/\">previous post</a>. Also, this website in Internet Explorer 6.</strong>\n\nQuote of the Week: \"I hadn\'t smoked in ten or twelve years, but I wished then I\'d had a cigarette that I could have taken a final drag on and flipped still burning into the river as I turned and walked away. Not smoking gains in the area of lung cancer, but it loses badly in the realm of dramatic gestures.\" (Robert Parker, <em>The Judas Goat</em>)\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 3 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-3-canter','','','2008-01-25 16:06:22','2008-01-25 22:06:22','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/25/week-3-canter/',0,'post','',0),(366,17,'2008-01-25 15:58:43','2008-01-25 21:58:43','Your Name:Today’s Date: 2007/01/25\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F \n\nTotal hours for week:\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Worked most in the Child Parent Center, where I created 2 poster banners and helped Mrs. Porter on some digital camera transfers.\n\n\n\n\n(Optional) Thought for the week: Don\'t drink cheap liquor.\n\n(Optional) What’s playing now?: Nothing\n\n(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: Engadget\n\n','Woodson Winter Week 1','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-week-1','','','2008-01-25 15:58:43','2008-01-25 21:58:43','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/25/woodson-winter-week-1/',0,'post','',0),(367,17,'2008-01-25 16:05:20','2008-01-25 22:05:20','Your Name:Today’s Date: 2007/01/25\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F\n\nTotal hours for week: 4.5\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: More Child Parent Center action this week as I swapped away a broken computer from the parent room and fixed some driver issues with Mrs. Porter\'s scanner.  Back at Woodson me and Spearman replaced the printer in the computer lab (maybe this was at week 1, can\'t remember).\n\n(Optional) Thought for the week: Don\'t do drugs.\n\n(Optional) What’s playing now?: Nothing.\n\n(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: Subtitles.\n\n','Woodson Winter Week 2','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-week-2','','','2008-01-25 16:05:20','2008-01-25 22:05:20','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/25/woodson-winter-week-2/',0,'post','',0),(368,17,'2008-01-25 16:09:17','2008-01-25 22:09:17','Your Name:Today’s Date: 2007/01/25 \n\nDay(s) worked or described: F \n\nTotal hours for week: 4.5\n\nThe School:\nWoodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: Mr. Spearman\'s father passed away earlier this week so he was not here.  Lab on the 3rd floor is not opened so I reside in the 2nd floor lab.  I fixed a really messed up computer in room 212.  That was it, nobody came to me with anything else.\n\n(Optional) Thought for the week: Don\'t sniff highlighters\n\n(Optional) What’s playing now?: Nothing\n\n(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: Nutrients Labels\n\n','Woodson Winter Week 3','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-week-3','','','2008-01-25 16:09:17','2008-01-25 22:09:17','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/25/woodson-winter-week-3/',0,'post','',1),(369,44,'2008-01-25 17:08:51','2008-01-25 23:08:51','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Nathaniel Berry\n\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 1-25-08\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5\n<strong>The School</strong>: Price Elementary\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\n Recently, we have been working on remediating the laptops from the laptop cart.  This task is now almost finished.  All are remediated, with these exceptions: V needs a system password, it has been locked out; R has an OS failure, perhaps reloading the OS will help; E and Z both need to be remediated, they are being stubborn and are resisting and can be forced to work by reloading the script every time they give an error; D has not been looked at, but has some sort of error (I think). \n\nNathaniel','Winter quarter week 3 @ Price','','publish','open','closed','','winter-quarter-week-3-price','','','2008-01-25 17:08:51','2008-01-25 23:08:51','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/25/winter-quarter-week-3-price/',0,'post','',0),(370,10,'2008-01-25 18:19:18','2008-01-26 00:19:18','Bryan Duff\nHarte Elementary\nWednesday 12:00-1:00, Friday 12:30-3:30\nTech General\n\nThe four broken Dell\'s in the computer are scheduled for repairs next week.  Someone from Dell should be coming out.\n\nAlso, there is a computer in 110 that simply needs to be re-imaged, but I can\'t find anyone who has any XP cd\'s (what Mitch calls the white album) for the Dells.  I\'ll ask Mrs. Parks next week.\n\nMitch and Jon were in today and were kind enough to fix two goofy network printers: 201 and 109.  I appreciated that a lot.  They also started to set up DeepFreeze for the computer lab, which I will also appreciate a lot.  Not having to reset silly things on the lab everyday will save me a lot of energy.\n\nI\'ve shown most teachers (except for a few who were out of the building and one other who really didn\'t seem to need to know how) how to use their CPS logins on the INSTR domain.  This will do a lot in helping Bret Harte stay organized.  Also the INSTR domain has yet to encounter any problems with using AR programs.  There were a few rooms that either didn\'t use AR or have never had problems accessing the data with the local student logins.  I went ahead and let their logins as such and will likely only go back and fix it if they encounter problems.\n\nI re-installed Wiggleworks on the new server.  That will be up and running when I go repair the shortcuts for certain computer rooms.  This reminds me that I need to stop by 101 and install some computer programs for her.\n\nI still hope to untangle a few more wires in the computer lab and clean out the MDF.  It looks like I may get a chance to do so this quarter!\n\nThanks again!\n\nBryan ','Week 3 at Harte','','publish','open','closed','','week-3-at-harte','','','2008-01-25 18:19:18','2008-01-26 00:19:18','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/25/week-3-at-harte/',0,'post','',0),(371,38,'2008-01-26 15:32:12','2008-01-26 21:32:12','<strong>Your Name: Emily</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/1/26\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described: </strong>W F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 4</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nAfter some seriously valiant efforts on the part of Dana, Mitch, and the result of the Fermi crowd, the mystery of the missing internet was solved! My issue on Wednesday was basically batting cleanup: I dealt with a few computers that hadn\'t yet had their IP addresses renewed by restarting them, shuffled some printers around, and installed ISAT practice test software/reset the IP addresses to automatic on the first row of computers in the computer lab. Friday was even quieter -- there was a teacher inservice, so I just wandered around the school fixing little problems. My main concern at the moment is that Ms. Love\'s teacher computer (105) is unbearably slow and should really be replaced -- I had to reinstall the sync station and it took approximately one million years (but did work well, which was exciting). One of her student computers (the one on the left) also seems not to have been fully remediated -- I attempted to set up the accounts and rename the computer. The latter was a success, the former not so much. This was mysterious, but Ms. Alexander also had a project for me so I didn\'t get to follow through with the full remediation and figure out why the accounts weren\'t being set up (it didn\'t seem to be hurting anyone, really, but it\'s a project for the future).  The project was to master IMPACT CIM in approximately 5 minutes so that I could show the 6-8th grade teachers how to use it to group their students. I did manage to figure the program out, but for some reason none of the teachers have classes assigned to them in the CIM so the point was moot. It was a good relaxing day, though, and it\'s great to see the internet back up. Yay!','A Remarkably Relaxed Week 3 at Fermi','','publish','open','closed','','a-remarkably-relaxed-week-3-at-fermi','','','2008-01-26 15:32:12','2008-01-26 21:32:12','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/26/a-remarkably-relaxed-week-3-at-fermi/',0,'post','',0),(372,39,'2008-01-26 16:02:02','2008-01-26 22:02:02','<strong>Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/1/26\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described: </strong>T Th F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 5</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Woodlawn\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nThe majority of this week was spent letting laptops out of their cart for fresh air and/or Windows updates--lots of Windows Updates.  All of the laptops need sixty-some updates before they\'re ready for XP service pack 2, after which they need forty-some more updates.  So far, only three laptops are completely up-to-date, but another six are about ready for service pack 2.\n\n I also attempted to get remediation to work on a library computer again; it looked like the hard disk format was incorrect for remediation, so I reinstalled Windows 2000 and reformatted the disk.  Results so far are inconclusive; I have been running remediation in steps because the single-program remediation does not seem to work correctly (it messes up when it is supposed to be installing updates).  Time will tell, I suppose, whether this works out or not.','Woodlawn: Week 3','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-3','','','2008-01-26 16:02:02','2008-01-26 22:02:02','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/26/woodlawn-week-3/',0,'post','',0),(373,35,'2008-01-27 15:25:16','2008-01-27 21:25:16','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Zhang Zhang\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/1/27\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: WThF\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 6\n<strong>The School</strong>: Ray Elementary\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General/Repair\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nMuch of this week was spent towards miscellaneous tasks of installing programs, fixing Accelerated Reader, sharing printers, and groaning at the astoundingly small 128 MB of RAM on the modern Pentium 4 IBM computers. Other than the usual problems, one computer in the lab can\'t seem to go past the MBR. This might be fixed by a HD re-image, though there is also a chance that the hard drive is failing. The problem is that the portable hard drive with the Norton Ghost image is missing its associated boot disk, or the application disc for that matter.  Anyway, I will continue to search for a solution.\n\n<strong>Observation of the week:</strong>\n\nDid you know that Math Blaster now requires Windows XP or above, and a Direct X 9 compatible graphics card with at least 32 MB video ram? When I was in elementary school, Math Blaster came on a floppy disk and displayed about 16 colors--yet I\'m certain it contained just as much math!','Week 3 at Ray','','publish','open','closed','','week-3-at-ray','','','2008-01-27 15:25:16','2008-01-27 21:25:16','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/27/week-3-at-ray/',0,'post','',0),(374,37,'2008-01-28 02:07:17','2008-01-28 08:07:17','<p><strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/1/27\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described: </strong>T TH F\n<strong>Total hours for week:7</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi Elementary\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, repair\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nOn Tuesday Sara and I spent most of the day checking over computers in the lab and setting some computers in 103, 105, and 111 on manual internet.   On Thursday, I finished installing the ISAT software on the computer lab computers, but did not reset the internet on them to automatic.  The reason for this was that the ISAT software seemed to care nothing for administrative rights and only install on the local account.  Therefore, if I wanted the kids to be able to use the software, I had to install it on the school account.  All of this meant that switching over to techco just to put the computers back on automatic would have been too time consuming, and I would not have finished.  So, I waited until Friday to put all of the computers in the lab back on automatic, as well as the computers in the teacher\'s resource room, 111, and 105.  I think 103 needs to be done too, but the door was locked by the time I got there.  During the last part of the day, I began to set up a printer in Ms. Kimbrough\'s room (it\'s on the second floor, 218 or 222 or something), but I couldn\'t finish it in time.  I\'ll probably get to it on Tuesday.  All in all, not a bad week, once the internet worked.','Week 3 at Fermi (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','week-3-at-fermi-dana','','','2008-01-28 02:07:17','2008-01-28 08:07:17','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/28/week-3-at-fermi-dana/',0,'post','',0),(375,40,'2008-01-28 09:09:56','2008-01-28 15:09:56','Kevin Koll 1/28/08\n\nDays Worked: Θ\n\nHours Worked: 3\n\nPrice\n\nWork: General tech\n\nI\'m working on getting the laptops remediated, I was able to get 5 done on thursday. It would be a faster process except there are problems when they are using the battery. The \"radio signal\" disables after a bit and they need to be restarted before I can get them to connect to the wireless signal. When the laptops are plugged into an outlet, there is no problem.\n\nMy regular schedule: Monday 9-12, Thursday 1-4 ','Price Week 3','','publish','open','closed','','price-week-3','','','2008-01-28 09:09:56','2008-01-28 15:09:56','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/28/price-week-3/',0,'post','',1),(376,41,'2008-01-31 12:54:58','2008-01-31 18:54:58','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Han Zhu\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/1/31\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong>  T  Θ\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Shoesmith\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Tech for Project, Project Prep, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision,\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nTuesday I met with Ms. Lee and gave her the Powerpoint guidelines and worksheet I made up last week for her students, which she was excited about. I also updated her blog with new Spanish vocab. Then Mrs. Cranley found me to fix her speakers, which I did, along with clearing her one lonely remaining computer of unnecessary programs and documents to clear up some space since her \"good\" computer is now in Ms. Stuttley\'s room. I also wrote up a list of instructions for her to send to the kindergarten parents to access the different features we have set up on her blog. I sat down with Mrs. Coleman and showed her the new literary blog and talked about the penpals, then put up blogging instructions for her students on the computers in her room. Issues I ran into: Impact had 1400 people in queue waiting to print report cards (!!!) so none got printed before I had to leave. Ms. Henderson\'s blog\'s sidebars refused to show up on some of the computers in the lab, so I spent some time messing around with the presentation.\n\nThursday I entered all the students into the Orchard database and put up the shortcut on the lab computers. I also showed Mrs. Cranley her blogging instructions for the kindergarten parents and Sara stopped up and she got caught up on the feud of the kindergarten teachers.','Week 4 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-at-shoesmith','','','2008-01-31 12:54:58','2008-01-31 18:54:58','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/31/week-4-at-shoesmith/',0,'post','',0),(377,42,'2008-01-30 10:34:18','2008-01-30 16:34:18','Clare Wolfe 1/30/08\n\nDays Worked: MW\n\nHours Worked: 5.5\n\nSchool: Emmett TillWork: General tech\n\nMain Narrative: This week I met with Mrs. Sudduth about the website. I\'m excited for this project, but no one seems to know if or where there are web design programs in the buildings. So I\'ve been googling alternatives (KompoZer looks interesting). If anyone has advice on free programs or other stuffs, it would be welcome as I\'ve never done anything remotely like webdesign before.\n\nI also worked with a bunch of kids on their research. I think I worked out an effective method for breaking down the information on the websites, but I need to start teaching them how to use web browsers too. I\'m always surprised by how new computers are for some kids.\n\nI still haven\'t done anything with Mrs. Davis\' computer. I\'ll try to get on that next week. I wish I had more hours in a week!','Week 4 Emmett Till','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-emmett-till','','','2008-01-30 10:34:18','2008-01-30 16:34:18','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/01/30/week-4-emmett-till/',0,'post','',1),(378,40,'2008-02-01 05:31:03','2008-02-01 11:31:03','Kevin Koll: 2/01/2008 Week 4\nDay(s) worked or described: M Θ  (erase the letters for days you weren’t there)\nTotal hours for week:6\nPrice\nKind of Work: (Tech general, Tech for Project, Project Prep, Helping Teacher.)\nMain Report or Narrative: When I arrived on Monday I was going to finish up the laptop remediation, but Ms. Herron wasn’t there and she has the only key to the laptop cart. Instead I went into some classrooms. Ms. Shepherd needed to have one of her computers join the INSTR domain and get remediated. She usually has some kind of tech problem, but I know she uses computers a lot in her class, so I try to make sure they are running as smoothly as possible. Later, I was in MDF fixing up some of the computers that are piled up in the closet. Nathaniel has done an amazing job cleaning that room up. I couldn’t believe it was the same place.\nOn Thursday I was in the lab helping a women who is doing some kind of digital photography class. It starts next Thursday and she wants 10 computers with printshop in one area. I moved several CPUs around to have the 10 best computers in the lab close together. Print Shop is installed on half of them. I’m also going to try and hook up one of the television monitors to a computer so she can demonstrate things to the students. I’m going to tidy up the lab as best I can, but maybe one day, Nathaniel, Sarah and I can really clean things up (ie untangle cords throw out junk). The room could really use it.\n\n (Optional) Thought for the week: This isn’t so much a though as it is an excuse for the poor quality of my writing. I’m observing the all night study space at the reg for a class. It’s about 5:30 in the morning right now, and I feel like I’m rambling incoherently to stay awake.','Price Week 4','','publish','open','closed','','price-week-4','','','2008-02-01 05:31:03','2008-02-01 11:31:03','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/01/price-week-4/',0,'post','',0),(379,24,'2008-02-01 13:34:58','2008-02-01 19:34:58','<strong>Your Name: Ariel Hafftka</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008, Feb 1\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 2:45</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Reavis</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech General\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Apparently Joe was here Yesterday and remediated most of the computers.  8 have working XP and 6 have working W2K.  6 other computers still appear to have problems. \n\n Today I tried to fix some of those 6.  One has a CD drive which I could not open (I left a note on the computer).  Several of the XP computers  (inlcuding some in the non-remediated and some in the remediated pile) have nonfunctional techco and school passwords.  I tried resetting the password with the Norwegian disk.  This allowed me to log in,  and then I used the reavis-adm01 utility to correct the password, but this set the password to something other than the standard Reavis code.  I also tried resetting the password using ctrl-alt-del, but the techco account does not allow password changes.\n\n<strong>My regular schedule at this school has changed, to become: </strong>\n\n<strong>FRI, 10:30 - 12:30</strong>','Computers in Reavis room 216','','publish','open','closed','','computer-in-reavis-room-216','','','2008-02-01 13:34:58','2008-02-01 19:34:58','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/01/computer-in-reavis-room-216/',0,'post','',0),(380,35,'2008-02-01 16:18:18','2008-02-01 22:18:18','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Zhang Zhang\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/2/1\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: MWF\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 6\n<strong>The School</strong>: Ray Elementary\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General/Repair\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nNothing much to report out of the ordinary... I reorganized and formatted a 150 page list of books for the Accelerated Reader program, cleared a computer of viruses, defragmented and increased the virtual memory of 3 IBM computers, unjammed several ink jet printers, and tried repeatedly to install Windows on a computer whose HD that turned out to be broken. All other computer equipment should all be working.\n\nOther than that, I would like to see the computer lab get some more usage for computer-related projects. As of now, many of the teachers are bringing students to the lab to do \"research\" on the internet, which involves random searches on Google and Yahoo. In the end, I suppose it is up to the teachers to decide...','Week 4 at Ray','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-at-ray','','','2008-02-01 16:18:18','2008-02-01 22:18:18','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/01/week-4-at-ray/',0,'post','',0),(381,33,'2008-02-01 17:10:03','2008-02-01 23:10:03','<strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright<p><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/2/1</p><p>[Week or date reporting about: 1/28/2008]</p><p><strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M T<strong> W</strong> Θ <strong>F</strong></p><p><strong>Total hours for week: 7</strong></p><p><strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School</p><p><strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Lab maintenance, Lab supervision)</p><p><strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong> I\'m happy to report that every day that I\'ve been in the lab, a group of kids has been in there using the lab for Study Island.  So, as far as that is concerned, Deep Freeze and Study Island have been a great success.  Unhappily however, I\'ve been dealing with some large computer issues.  Several teachers (Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Drummer, Mrs. Woodfork) have issues with their old Dell Pentium III optimized for Windows 98 computers.  I put a fresh copy of Windows 2000 on Mrs. Clarke\'s, and it seems to have rectified the critical issue, however it\'s still very slow.  Also, in Mrs. Woodfork\'s room, I have 4 VERY slow computers.  One is still running Windows 98, but the other three are unreliably slow and seem to open the Start menu when they feel like it.  I updated them all and cleaned out some spyware/adware.  Mrs. Drummer\'s computer is another issue, it either needs to have some hardware readjustments or a new hard drive.  I\'ll check that out next week.</p><p> Other than that, things have been going very well.  Some middle schooler made fun of my tight pants, that was irritating, especially considering they aren\'t that tight.  Apparently, he hasn\'t been to Cobb Hall at the University of Chicago lately.  :P  Anyway, I responded with \"Whatever man, I\'ll wear what I want.\"  This seemed to assure them I wasn\'t some sort of non-person and I got some degree of respect.  Hurrah.  Anyway, nothing else to report.</p><p> Currently Watching: No Country for Old Men </p><p> <strong>Currently Reading:</strong> This post.</p><p>Currently Listening: DJ Kurt - Clubwalker (awesome hard dance track). </p>','Mollison Week 4: No School for Old Computers','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-week-4-no-school-for-old-computers','','','2008-02-01 17:10:03','2008-02-01 23:10:03','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/01/mollison-week-4-no-school-for-old-computers/',0,'post','',0),(382,34,'2008-02-01 17:38:46','2008-02-01 23:38:46','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/2/1\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 4.9\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nTuesday! The CUIP/CPS/Canter deities were smiling at me, as a number of my problems fixed themselves. The graphics card issue disappeared (although I had been swapping it out with another card...more on that later), and the problem I reported on E1 in last week\'s report disappeared. I got to the school and focused on setting up the new computer. The move from room 202 to 105 was quite successful, and the computer in that room is now up and running. I was informed of a nonfunctioning student computer by one of the teachers, and I went in and took a look. First diagnosis was some kind of local power issue with the outlet. I removed the computer up to the computer lab (also because it was an identical model to the computer having the graphics card issue, and it too had a PCI display card, so I wanted to run a test with it), and it booted up just fine there. This is also when I resolved the graphics card issue on the lounge computer. When I went back to tell the teacher about the power issue, her door was locked and I was unable to get the computer back into the room.\n<!--more-->\nI spent the rest of Tuesday setting up the now-fixed-graphics-card computer in the lounge again. I\'m nearly satisfied with the lounge computers, finally!\n\nFriday, I biked to work in the snow (after it was done snowing, but there was certainly plenty on the ground)! Talk about hardcore. I felt real proud about making it to Canter, hehe. I went to look at the lounge computers and found the Internet on one unacceptably slow, and the other one just slow in general (a memory issue). After I restarted the Internet-challenged one in Safe Mode and then out of it again, it seemed to be going just fine. I was also able to set up the student computer mentioned in Tuesday\'s report in its original room; I had a spare surge suppressor handy, so I plugged it into the original power line, and not the newer ones next to the Ethernet ports. The entire strip along that wall seems to be out, so the Internet on the computer doesn\'t work because the Ethernet is nonfunctional. Does CUIP have a 20-feet Ethernet cable handy, so that I can string it along the wall and to a functional port?\n\nToday was mostly a day of consolidation. I\'ve removed all spare RAM from the extra computers lying around, and have placed all keyboards, mice, monitors, and power cords up in the computer lab. There\'s one functional CPU not in use, and that\'s in the teacher\'s lounge on one of the couches.\n\nOne effect of that consolidation is that both computers in the teacher\'s lounge now have 256 MB of RAM and are quite happy! I\'ll take a final look on Tuesday, but I think I\'m finally done with those. Also, the computer with 128 MB of RAM in the lab (the one that was complaining about it) now has ... more than 128 MB of RAM. However, I don\'t think it/Windows liked the combination of RAM I put in, or it was bad, so now it gets past the BIOS slowly, starts booting into Windows, and then restarts into the BIOS in a continuous cycle. I ran memtest using the Linux LiveCD I had handy, but had to leave before it could finish. This stems from the fact that it was less than 256 MB, some odd combination I\'ve never seen before which I blame on the RAM I nabbed from the Compaq Presario that\'s now in that computer. I\'ll resolve this on Tuesday, and let you know what I do...hopefully I can redistribute everything so that everyone\'s happy. \n\nI think I\'m ready to look in all the classrooms and make sure that every computer (I think there\'s about 1 per room) is working properly, though I imagine the teacher would tell me if not. Still, I know there are some extra computers in 207 (from work I did earlier in Fall Quarter) that I can remediate or play around with. I don\'t know how much use they get in there.\n\nAfter that\'s done, hopefully I can get working with Russ on planning projects for teachers!!!\n\n<strong>Remaining Issues</strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Network cables. If I can pick up a longer one from CUIP, I can circumvent that Ethernet port problem (should an electrician or someone come look at that?), and use the shorter one currently there to hook up the computer in the library, since it\'s missing a cable. (see next bullet).</li>\n<li>I want to find out who\'s in charge of the library, and see what system they\'re using to handle book circulation. Maybe we can come up with something inventive!</li>\n<li>RAM stuff is almost done!</li>\n<li>I can start checking on all the computers in the classrooms now. I suspect most of them work well.</li>\n<li>I need to remember to sit down and document the problems with this theme and Internet Explorer. Though it\'s not part of my Canter work, it\'s still CUIP related...who should I contact to work on that?</li>\n<li>It would be really cool to resolve those DeepFreeze issues in the lab.</li>\n<li>I should find out about implementing those spare printers lying around.</li>\n<li>Eventually, I hope to start working with teachers/students, but I don\'t know how much flexibility and free time the teachers have in their lessons plans. Russ, what have you been doing at Canter with the teachers so far?</li>\n</ul>\nQuote of the Week: \"What a shame if you should find it. Your quest would be over. And then what? As if a fortune could make up for the bother of gaining it. No, no, my lad: The journey is the treasure.\"\n- Salamon, <em>The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio</em>\n\nNote: I had to leave the building early because Ms. Ahad wanted to make sure everyone was out of the building as a result of the snow, so I had 35 minutes of work left to complete. I spent just about 30 minutes filing this report from home, so I\'ll make up the rest of that next week. Note that my time card will display 5 hours spent, since Ms. Ahad peremptorily signed it.\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 4 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-canter-2','','','2008-02-01 17:38:46','2008-02-01 23:38:46','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/01/week-4-canter-2/',0,'post','',0),(383,39,'2008-02-02 09:56:49','2008-02-02 15:56:49','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Sasha Reschechtko\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/2/2\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: M,T,Th\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 3.5\n<strong>The School</strong>: Woodlawn\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General, Laptop Updates\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nMost of this week was spent updating laptops and letting laptops update themselves.  Six or seven laptops have XP service pack 2, and four or five more are almost ready for SP 2.  On Thursday, I made sure that the computers were all working/plugged in correctly in the sixth grade classroom because there is a new sixth grade teacher and she moved all of the computers.','Woodlawn: Week 4','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-4','','','2008-02-02 09:56:49','2008-02-02 15:56:49','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/02/woodlawn-week-4/',0,'post','',0),(384,10,'2008-02-02 23:57:31','2008-02-03 05:57:31','Bryan Duff\nBret Harte\nWednesday: 12-1\nFriday: 12:30-3:30\nTech General\n\nI started to clean out the MDF in hopes of getting organized.  I kind of realized that it\'s impossible to move those servers up on to desks with unplugging them.  So, they remain on the floor, but it seems like this an okay place for them, just not ideal. \n\nI also worked on straightening up the computer lab computers (making sure desktop backgrounds were okay, mice worked, things were plugged in).  \n\nI\'m not sure I\'ll be in as much next week due to midterms.  If so, the priorities are to finally reimage that machine in 110 and the machine in the lab.\n\n(The report from here on out is almost identical to the email I sent you Friday afternoon, Mitch)\n\nSo, the computer that was not fixed in the lab was neglected \nbecause it\'s warranty had expired.  I wish I would\'ve realized this ahead of time, but I wasn\'t.  As Mitch and Jon\nnoticed, this computer kind of starts up, so re-imaging \nmight actually work.  But, as for any parts or services, we \ncan no longer ask Dell about it.\n\nThis whole warranty-expiring thing is bad news, I fear.  \nThere are a lot of machines that will likely be affected \nseeing as how many motherboard issues we\'ve seen with these \nDell models.\n\nAlso, there\'s a machine in room 110 that still needs re-\nimaged.  Luckily this teacher has been exceptionally paitent \nwith me.  I contaced Dell today, and they agreed to send the \nschool some recovery disks...whenver that might be.\n\nAs for the computer lab, Ms. Evans seems to agree (but I\'m \nnot sure yet) that maybe the students ought to use a stu-\n3780 login.  I anticipated this happening, and have reserved \nthe stu-3780-2 for the lab.  I was thinking we might want to \nphase this in by telling teachers that if they want to use \nAR programs they should expect to use these network logins.  \nMs. Evans, though apparently on board with this idea, let me \nknow today that she felt like most students were having \ntroubling typing in the new password.  I wasn\'t able to really get her to say anything conclusive about this.  I\'m thinking we just go ahead with it, slowly.\n','Week 4 at Harte','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-at-harte-2','','','2008-02-02 23:57:31','2008-02-03 05:57:31','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/02/week-4-at-harte-2/',0,'post','',0),(385,38,'2008-02-03 20:00:12','2008-02-04 02:00:12','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/2/3\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nMy memory of this week is surprisingly patchy, but I\'ll try to fill in the blanks with some of the more major events. On Monday, I replaced Ms. Love\'s intolerably slow computer (105) with one of the more functional computers from the closet in the computer lab and set it up with DIBELS, etc. On Wednesday, I played around with Ms. Kimbrough\'s computer and shared her desktop printers with her student computers (since her other networked printer has no ink). I also attempted to remediate a few computers that were a little behind the times, working from the cool remediation spreadsheet on fermi-adm01 that Sara showed me. I was supposed to tape-record/take pictures of the mock primary which was to be held on Friday, but Ms. Kimbrough didn\'t make it to school due to the weather. There wasn\'t much demand for tech support since most of the other teachers were also missing, so (somewhat ironically) I spent the day watching Ms. Kimbrough\'s class. Now the weather outside seems remarkably similar to that of Friday night...hopefully CPS will learn their lesson from last week and give those poor kids a snow day.','Week 4 at Fermi','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-at-fermi','','','2008-02-03 20:00:12','2008-02-04 02:00:12','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/03/week-4-at-fermi/',0,'post','',1),(386,37,'2008-02-04 02:11:45','2008-02-04 08:11:45','<p><strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/2/3\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T TH F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:7</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nHonestly, there just didn\'t seem to be that much going on this week, so my memory of it is as sketchy as Emily\'s.  I spent the first part of Tuesday just walking around looking for things to do.  I eventually found out that two of the computers in 220 were not connecting to the internet.  I investigated, and discovered that I had accidentally set them with dynamic IP addresses sometime way back when I didn\'t understand the deal with that.  I put them back on auto and the problem was solved.  They also had various other problems, which I began to work on.  We might need to check back on those next week, I think they still need a bit of remediation here and there.\n\nThursday...wasn\'t that interesting either.  I set up Ms. Covington\'s new printer for her, which went smoothly and didn\'t take long.  I think Thursday might have been the day when I checked the compliance report for problems, which I usually do when I have nothing better to do, and discovered a couple of computers that were still on FERMIDOM.  I fixed one of them before I left.  The other one is in 103 or 104.  The teachers had to go to a pep rally halfway through my time here, which limited what I was able to do.\n\nFriday was a slow day, because most of the teachers were gone.  I spent the first half of the day assisting Mr. Smith and his students in the computer lab, where they were learning how to search for things online.  Ah, the joys of Wikipedia.  I had heard that a computer in...105?...was having some unspecified problem, so I went to check it out.  I spotted a computer that was still running Windows 98 and had no internet.  I assumed that this must be the computer that was having problems, so I reconnected the internet and tried to fix what I could.  In retrospect, having a Win 98 computer on the network might be dangerous, so maybe I will disconnect it again.  It turned out to be the other computer that was having unspecified problems, but no one seemed to know what.  Everything seemed to work fine, but I will check back next week.','Week 4 at Fermi (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-at-fermi-dana','','','2008-02-04 02:11:45','2008-02-04 08:11:45','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/04/week-4-at-fermi-dana/',0,'post','',1),(387,44,'2008-02-04 14:17:20','2008-02-04 20:17:20','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Nathaniel Berry\n\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2-4-08\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: M, F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 10\n<strong>The School</strong>: Price Elementary\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nThis week I further cleaned up the MDF room to make it more servicable and easier to work in.  It now has a good computer repair station with two monitors, keyboards, and mice.  I also began to make up a computer for the boiler room.  Apparently one was requested.  I have now finished it.  It is a Dell Optiplex GX1p with a pentium 3, 256 MB RAM and a 10 GB HD.  While I was working on this, I came scross three Acers, of the modelk veriton 5200.  They all had bad hard drives, but they also refuse to work with any other hard drive.  They are arguably some of the best computers here, with pentium 4 processers.  Does anyone know if they have a speacial setting that I have to change and am missing?  Or are they all bad?  If they are bad, is the the mother board that has malfunctioned, or some other part?\n\nNathaniel','Week 4 @ Price','','publish','open','closed','','week-4-price','','','2008-02-04 14:17:20','2008-02-04 20:17:20','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/04/week-4-price/',0,'post','',1),(388,41,'2008-02-07 11:59:25','2008-02-07 17:59:25','<strong>Your Name: Han Zhu</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/2/7\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T (I called out today because of midterms/papers)\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 3\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong><em>\n</em>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Project Culmination, Lab supervision,\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nNot much to report since I missed work today. Tuesday I talked with Mrs. Cranley, showed her somewhat how to make the sight words \"flashcards\", then created and put up a whole bunch of new flashcards on the blog. I also did some lab supervision for one of the classes until practically the whole CUIP staff stopped by to videotape interviews of the students about Barack Obama coming to Shoesmith that afternoon. Sadly, I missed his arrival by 15 minutes.','Week 5 at shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-5-at-shoesmith-2','','','2008-02-07 11:59:25','2008-02-07 17:59:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/07/week-5-at-shoesmith-2/',0,'post','',0),(389,33,'2008-02-08 11:25:58','2008-02-08 17:25:58','\n<p><strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright</p>\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/2/8\n\n[Week or date reporting about: 2/4/2008]\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T W Θ <strong>F</strong>\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 5\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Lab maintenance, Lab supervision)\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nThe key issue I think that faces Mollison and myself is to establish a working lab behavior policy that all the teacher can follow, and that I can enforce.  Despite any measures to the contrary I attempt to establish, students ALWAYS find speakers and plug them in.  I learned today that there is a reason behind this seeming NON-Logic.  One of the teachers condones and perhaps encourages the use of the speaker for she feels it helps them study well.  It is not the place to discuss whether this is true, but speaker use in the lab is absurd with 20+ kids in one small room.  Headphones are one thing, but speakers are different territory.  Unfortunately, the school has received, not a shipment of headphones, but a shipment of speakers.\n\nThere is constant fighting and constant arguing and yelling in this lab, and my only option is to threaten to shut down their computers, which I have not had to do yet, but have come very close.  I also am not sure if it\'s within my authority as a CUIP person to enforce any rules or regulations or deliver and punitive measures.\n\nCurrently Listening: Hardcore Underground 2 [awesome CD compilation] ','Mollison Week 5: Labehavior Policy?','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-week-5-labehavior-policy','','','2008-02-08 11:25:58','2008-02-08 17:25:58','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/08/mollison-week-5-labehavior-policy/',0,'post','',2),(390,24,'2008-02-08 13:18:25','2008-02-08 19:18:25','<strong> </strong><strong>Your Name: Ariel Hafftka</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008, Feb 8\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 2:15</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Reavis</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech General\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Today the staff member Rafael and I carried 12 tables up to room 216 for the new computer lab.  We carried most of the old tables into room 219.  The desks and computers still need to be arranged.  Enjoy the weekend.','(Ariel at Reavis)','','publish','open','closed','','390','','','2008-02-08 13:18:25','2008-02-08 19:18:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/08/390/',0,'post','',0),(391,17,'2008-02-08 15:30:47','2008-02-08 21:30:47','Your Name: Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/02/08\n\nWeek 4\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F \n\nTotal hours for week: 4.5\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: \n\nWent over to Child Parent Center and noticed one of the Dell LCD screens went out.  It\'s an apparent hardware problem and since it\'s serviced by Early Childhood who gave it to the Child Paret Center, I was told not to fix it (not that I know how or what blew out anyway).\n\nCame back to Woodson to help Mr. Spearman to swap wireless cards in the laptops in the library.  Went into some minor road blocks but nothig major.\n\n(Optional) Thought for the week: eh\n\n(Optional) What’s playing now?: beh\n\n(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: neh\n','Woodson Winter Week 4','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-week-4','','','2008-02-08 15:30:47','2008-02-08 21:30:47','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/08/woodson-winter-week-4/',0,'post','',0),(392,17,'2008-02-08 15:33:11','2008-02-08 21:33:11','Your Name: Li An Kwan\n\nToday’s Date: 2007/02/08\n\nWeek 5\n\nDay(s) worked or described: F \n\nTotal hours for week: 4.5\n\nThe School: Woodson\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative: \n\nPut a temporary monitor in Child Parent Center where the LCD broked down.\n\nRestored a computer in room 204 with ghost.\n\n(Optional) Thought for the week: Happy Chinese New Year\n\n(Optional) What’s playing now?: Computer Fans\n\n(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: ESPN\n','Woodson Winter Week 5','','publish','open','closed','','woodson-winter-week-5','','','2008-02-08 15:33:11','2008-02-08 21:33:11','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/08/woodson-winter-week-5/',0,'post','',0),(393,39,'2008-02-08 15:50:02','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<strong>Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/2/8\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M T Th F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 6.5\n\n<strong>The School:</strong> Woodlawn Community School\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, TechKnow)\n\nI spend the majority of my time upgrading the laptops; hopefully they\'ll be finished by next week.  Thursday I spent some time helping a student with her TechKnow computer from a previous TechKnow iteration (cable problems).  Today (Friday) I inventoried the new shipment of TechKnow computers--everything seems in order with them; now we just need some TechKnow students!','Woodlawn: Week 5','','draft','open','closed','','','','','2008-02-08 15:50:02','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/?p=393',0,'post','',0),(394,34,'2008-02-09 17:01:25','2008-02-09 23:01:25','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/2/8\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T, F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nI stopped by CUIP offices on Monday to pick up a longer Ethernet cable, and successfully hooked that up on Tuesday. The student computer in room 205 is now working well, although this is really only a workaround and the wall raceway is still faulty. Anyway, I used the Ethernet cable that had been in room 205 to hook up the computer in the library to the network. As I recall, there may still be some problems with that computer, so I need to find out who\'s in charge of the library and have a chat with them.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, I got a request from Ms. Spector (the teacher in 205) to help her set up a blog for her latest Spanish project, compiling a cookbook. I sent Russ an email and am waiting to hear back from him about this. Mitch stopped by, and we caught up for a little bit; he said I should inform Russ about the possibilities of hooking up some of the printers lying around, and that Russ could work with Ms. Ahad on that. I spent a little more time on the various RAM issues, but didn\'t successfully resolve anything.\n\n<!--more-->\nFriday I moved the spare CPU from the teacher\'s lounge to the computer lab in hopes that I could salvage some RAM or use it to replace one of the whiny computers (not literally with regards to fan/air flow issues, but one that was complaining about not having much RAM). The RAM slots don\'t look standard, however, so I won\'t be able to add any more to this one, thus ruling it out for use in the computer lab (it only has 128 MB of memory, so it wouldn\'t be much better off). More on this RAM later.\n\nSo it turns out that we\'ve got two working 64 MB chips of RAM and two working 128 MB chips of RAM for a total of two computers.\n\nUnless I can remove the 128 MB of RAM from the computer in the teacher\'s lounge, I may just split the difference, or leave one with 128 MB and one with 256 MB.\n\nIn other news, Mr. Fishbein\'s teacher computer started having memory problems...and there\'s pretty much no memory to spare in the school! As a temporary fix, I switched the teacher CPU with the student CPU, so now the student computer has the memory problem. I\'m not sure yet what I should do to remedy this -- any ideas, guys? The software solutions to these RAM issues never seem to work well, and the hard drives on some of these computers aren\'t too large.\n\nI also checked on a few classrooms before the teachers had left, and it seems like their computers are generally working well. I encountered an interesting problem, though: a teacher told me that Yahoo Mail wouldn\'t work, and she was right...Internet Explorer refused to load the page, as well as several others. It turns out it was a secure-server type issue -- something was wrong with IE and it wouldn\'t connect to sites using SSL. Ultimately, a computer restart fixed this issue (it was also having some random INSTR permission issues).\n\nOne of the cases for a computer in the computer lab had a faulty power button, but there was actually a \"shell\" (the term I\'ll use to refer to the extra computers in the lab which have had all RAM removed, and are obviously not in use) of the same model, so I switched the cases between the two.\n\nI need to find some more spare mouses to use -- certainly at least one. Does CUIP have any extra mouse balls? I have three working mice which are simply missing balls, and I know those are much cheaper than an entire mouse.\n\nI took a look for the first time in a while at the Canter compliance website (on the Canter admin server), and it seems like a lot of things have fallen out of compliance. Teacher requests and other things I notice come first, though, in terms of priorities – I\'ll take a look next time I have a chance.\n\nLastly, I tried Remote-Desktoping into Canter\'s user server. Though one can access the server, the only window I see, which cannot be closed, is for filling out an improper shutdown report, or something like that. Since I\'m not sure what caused the shutdown (or whether the data even gets sent to CPS or Microsoft), I didn\'t bother filling out the report. Russ, do you know anything about this? \n\nBasically, to sum up the week, RAM issues are a pain in the butt! Also, I\'d like to work with Russ on implementing some more printers around the building.\n\nAlso, Mitch, did you intentionally expand people\'s user permissions on this WP site? I\'m now able to edit other people\'s posts and comments.\n\nAfter more stuff gets done, hopefully I can get working with Russ on planning projects for teachers!!!\n\n<strong>Remaining Issues</strong>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to find out who\'s in charge of the library, and see what system they\'re using to handle book circulation. Maybe we can come up with something inventive!</li>\n<li>I need to remember to sit down and document the problems with this theme and Internet Explorer. Though it\'s not part of my Canter work, it\'s still CUIP related...who should I contact to work on that?</li>\n<li>It would be really cool to resolve those DeepFreeze issues in the lab.</li>\n<li>I should find out about implementing those spare printers lying around.</li>\n<li>Eventually, I hope to start working with teachers/students, but I don\'t know how much flexibility and free time the teachers have in their lessons plans. Russ, what have you been doing at Canter with the teachers so far?</li>\n</ul>\nQuote of the Week: \"We live in a universe whose age we can\'t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don\'t altogether know, filled with matter we can\'t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don\'t truly understand.\"\n- Bill Bryson\n-Ben Hyman','Week 5 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-5-canter-2','','','2008-02-09 17:01:25','2008-02-09 23:01:25','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/09/week-5-canter-2/',0,'post','',2),(395,16,'2008-02-08 21:15:13','2008-02-09 03:15:13','Your Name:  James Salvatore\n\nToday’s Date: 2008/02/08\n\nDay(s) worked or described: T Θ x2\n\nTotal hours for week: I think 8.\n\nThe School: Dumas.\n\nKind of Work: Tech general.\n\nMain Report or Narrative: \n\nI\'m new to Dumas, so I spent the first day sort of hanging around and getting to know Mr. Tolbert + the computer situation there.  I primarily work in Mr. Tolbert\'s classroom fixing up the 31 computers that are in there.  \n\nThe first Tuesday, I got a feel for each computer.  Dumas doesn\'t have deepfreeze, so every desktop is sort of like a snowflake -- no two are the same.  One is even like, the picture of a dog or something.  It doesn\'t have the CPS logo background, so I kept it the picture of a dog.  It\'s not hurting anyone to have a dog background.\n\nI think Thursday, Mitch came in.  Or it might have been one of the Tuesdays.  But either way, we began to work on the printing issue which, since then, hasn\'t been touched on at all.  Mr. Tolbert wanted to do a schoolwide instra-login deal and, after that, do a tcpip printing deal -- and he also wanted to put DeepFreeze on all of the computers, which is kind of a bittersweet project.  I can\'t do any of these things until Mr. Tolbert has started them, which hasn\'t happened yet -- so I\'m just sort of waiting for Go-time.\n\nTuesday and Thursday, I went around to each individual computer and:\n\n- Scandisk\'d them.  An average of around 1.5 - 2 gigs was saved.  These computers have not been scanned in a while.\n\n- Defragged them.  All but a few of them said, \"You should defrag this computer!\", so I did.\n\n- Got rid of unnecessary desktop items (32 links to google.com, a link to a little flash video game about like, a horse jumping over things or something, etc., etc.) and put My Documents, My Computer, Recycle Bin, and Internet Explorer on the desktop for easy usin\'.  \n\n- Downloaded Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader for every computer.  Individually.  Ugh.  \n\n- Mr. Tolbert expressed interest in a virus scanning program, so I got lavasoft\'s ad-aware because I remember using that at Till as a virus scanning program.  I put this on a few machines and scanned them, but this will be what I start up next tuesday if Mr. Tolbert has nothing else for me to do.\n\nAll in all, I\'m just tweaking Dumas to make everything go a little more smoothly.  There\'s not really anything to do until the big projects come about.  I sort of miss Till\'s constant-problems and lack-of-mice things, but I think I like Dumas\'s style.','First two weeks at Dumas.','','publish','open','closed','','first-two-weeks-at-dumas','','','2008-02-08 21:15:13','2008-02-09 03:15:13','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/08/first-two-weeks-at-dumas/',0,'post','',1),(396,38,'2008-02-10 23:30:40','2008-02-11 05:30:40','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/2/10\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M  W F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This was a relatively slow week, but also relatively successful. On Monday, I switched Mr. Orekoya\'s grumpy old Acer for one of the new student computers he\'d received from Computers for Schools. I then realized that this was one of the computers which hadn\'t been properly remediated, and so went about trying to resolve that issue. Unfortunately, the computer had never been given an asset tag, so I ordered a few (I got three, since there seemed to be about three or four computers on the Fermi network which don\'t have proper asset IDs). On Wednesday, I played around with the gym teacher\'s computer (her name sounds like Ms. Smith, but it\'s not Smith...). She wanted to install some software and wasn\'t able to, a problem which I initally thought was just a simple issue of needing a techco login. However, the issue turned out to be somewhat more significant, since neither of the CD-ROM drives in her computer would recognize a disc. I played around with the drivers for a little while before opening up the case and poking around inside. This was somewhat daunting, and I spent about five or ten minutes thinking that I\'d killed the darn thing (I eventually discovered that the wire connecting the power switch to the motherboard had come loose), but somehow I got it to work...at least temporarily. I also spent a little time with Ms. Berry, who was having some quota errors and just needed a restart. On Friday, I worked with Ms. Love\'s student computers, both of which were running slowly and one of which was not remediated. I spent most of the day installing some software, remediating the computer, and playing around with virtual memory settings (which seemed to make a bit of a difference). I also gave Ms. Alexander a very basic tutorial on FirstClass and installed some Adobe product on one of Ms. Freckleton\'s student computers.','Fermi, Week 5','','publish','open','closed','','fermi-week-5','','','2008-02-10 23:30:40','2008-02-11 05:30:40','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/10/fermi-week-5/',0,'post','',0),(397,37,'2008-02-11 02:29:15','2008-02-11 08:29:15','<p><strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/2/10\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T, TH, F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:7</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This week was pretty slow for me as well.  I really should write what I do down so that I remember it for these posts.  On Tuesday, I got a message that TechXL or whoever had called the school, so I called them back.  It turns out that they didn\'t really need anything, so those asset tags Emily ordered are on the way.  Dr. Sanders asked me to look at her new Windows Vista laptop, because she had tried to transfer a file from the laptop to the school computers, and they couldn\'t read it.  I quickly realized what the problem was: She was using Office 2007, and it saved the document in that awful new format that nothing else can read. (Did I mention I really hate Office 2007? Terrible new interface, terrible new file format)  So, on Thursday I gave her a tutorial on how to save documents in the Word 97-2003 format.  I also added a school and techco account to the laptop, so that regular school folks could use it and tech folks could conduct maintenance on it.  Friday was probably the busiest day of the week.  I first randomly decided to run a Windows update on a teacher\'s laptop, since I knew it would almost never be plugged into the network.  However, it seemed to have some kind of user rights issue with ActiveX controls, so I couldn\'t update it.  Since it wasn\'t urgent, and I had other teachers waiting, I put it aside.  The teacher in room 221 had an odd problem - his desktop display was upside-down. (Not the physical monitor, I mean just the image)  I used Google, and imagine this: If you press Ctrl-Alt-Up arrow, the screen flips upside down, and then if you press Ctrl-Alt-Down arrow, it flips back to the right way again.  Apparently, not every computer is this way, because mine isn\'t.  While I was in the room, the teacher asked me to set it up so that his teacher computer could print to the networked printer in his room too.  This was easily accomplished.  I then went to Ms. Berry\'s room, where the problem that Emily described in her post below was back.  I really couldn\'t figure out what was going on with it.  If I logged into techco first, it couldn\'t log into the school profile after that.  If I logged into school, it was slow and had no internet.  We\'ll have to keep looking at that one.','Fermi, Week 5 (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','fermi-week-5-dana','','','2008-02-11 02:29:15','2008-02-11 08:29:15','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/11/fermi-week-5-dana/',0,'post','',1),(398,42,'2008-02-13 11:54:09','2008-02-13 17:54:09','<strong>our Name: Clare Wolfe </strong><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/2/13\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W\n\n<strong>Total hours for 2 weeks: 10\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Till</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Did some research for the kids\' new project on Natural disasters (and then redid it when I lost it all) and made some progress on figuring out what to do with the website. Also helped kids with their online reading quizzes. All in all, pretty dull.','Weeks 5 & 6','','publish','open','closed','','weeks-5-6','','','2008-02-13 11:54:09','2008-02-13 17:54:09','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/13/weeks-5-6/',0,'post','',0),(399,34,'2008-02-15 14:55:51','2008-02-15 20:55:51','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/2/15\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 2\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nCPS schools were closed this Tuesday for Lincoln\'s birthday, so I didn\'t come in to work. There wasn\'t actually that much to do, so I worked 2 hours on Friday instead of 3.\n\nI showed Ms. Spector the basics of blogging, but we didn\'t have an actual blog set up for her specific project. Russ, can you help me out with that? I\'ll email her the directions I wrote for the other teachers; I think that project kind of fizzled, but I know Ms. Spector is pretty excited about her project and already has the content she wants. Along those lines, she was worried about posting students works online -- do you know if there\'s any property rights issue she has to worry about with that? Anyway, it was really very enjoyable explaining blogging to her, definitely one of the highlights of my time at Canter.\n\nI also discovered that the \"library\" is more of a textbook repository, and is only used for in-school suspension purposes. Basically, there\'s no need for me to worry about library automation systems.\n\nLastly, I successfully took apart the computer that had been in the teacher\'s lounge (significant screwdriver usage), but it turns out the RAM that had been difficult to get at didn\'t even work in other computers. Canter is officially out of spare RAM!\n\nAfter more stuff gets done, hopefully I can get working with Russ on planning projects for teachers!!!\n\n<strong>Remaining Issues</strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Fishbein\'s computer with RAM issues.</li>\n<li>Sending Ms. Spector blogging directions and setting up her blog so she can practice. <em>Russ, can you help me set that up?</em>\n<li>Spare mice (considering Mitch\'s comment on last week\'s report)</li>\n<li>Using Canter\'s compliance website</li>\n<li>Implementing more printers around the building</li>\n<li>Editing the theme for this site. <em>Mitch, I\'m still not sure my permissions are set properly for this. Can you help me out?</em></li>\n<li>It would be really cool to resolve those DeepFreeze issues in the lab.</li>\n<li>I should find out about implementing those spare printers lying around.</li>\n<li>Eventually, I hope to start working with teachers/students, but I don\'t know how much flexibility and free time the teachers have in their lessons plans. Russ, what have you been doing at Canter with the teachers so far?</li>\n</ul>\nQuote of the Week: \"My knee hurts.\" -Me, 2:53 PM, 2/15/08. It does!\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 6 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-6-canter-2','','','2008-02-15 14:55:51','2008-02-15 20:55:51','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/15/week-6-canter-2/',0,'post','',1),(400,39,'2008-02-15 15:46:52','2008-02-15 21:46:52','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Sasha Reschechtko\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/2/15\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: M Th F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5.5\n<strong>The School</strong>: Woodlawn Community School\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nOn Monday, Ms. Johnson was at a meeting (for TechKnow?), so I couldn\'t work on the laptops.  Instead I started inventorying the classroom computers (this is a project Ms. Johnson has wanted to do for a while, although I\'m not sure why).  Thursday and Friday I continued to update the computers; everything is running XP service pack 2 now, and hopefully they\'ll be fully updated by next Thursday or so (since CPS is closed on Monday).','Woodlawn: Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-6-2','','','2008-02-15 15:46:52','2008-02-15 21:46:52','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/15/woodlawn-week-6-2/',0,'post','',0),(401,10,'2008-02-16 10:30:33','2008-02-16 16:30:33','Bryan Duff\nBret Harte\nTech General\nWednesday: 12:15-1:15; Friday: 12:30-3:30\n\nExcellent news about DeepFreeze!  As I mentioned in a note to Mitch, who is assembling a team to come out and finalize it, next Friday would work best for me.  However, I do understand if you need to set it up for another time.  Monday might be best because there\'s no school, so there will not be any students to compete with, but I don\'t think Ms. Evans will be here, either. This is exciting that it\'s almost ready to go.  Very good news!\n\nAs Mitch noticed, Wednesday I finished the ODS scripts on the re-imaged machine in the lab, as well as just generally straightened up the lab.\n\nToday, Ms. Evans did not have any outstanding issues for me, which was good.  I spent some time checking what was installed on each of the lab machines.  It seems that STARLiteracy, STARMath, and STARReader should all be standard, but I haven\'t gotten any idea of how often these programs are actually used.\n\nAfter finding the XP re-install disc in the lab, I was able to finally come down to 110 to re-image the machine that had been outstanding for so long.  Luckily the teacher was really understanding.  Having this CD will be very useful in the future.  However, I still need to install a couple of drivers for the machine.\n\nThe majority of teachers are using their INSTR logins.  I am slowly bringing the handful of teachers who do not up to speed.\n\nThe lab has been in pretty good shape lately, but is still in need of a new printer (though it seems to have been working fine over the past week).  Of course, things in the lab will only get better once we get DeepFreeze in.\n\nOnce again, I apologize about having to miss work last week due to midterms.  I\'ve never had all four of them in one week before, and I certainly hope I never have that again.  Thanks once again for being understanding.\n','Harte: Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','harte-week-6','','','2008-02-16 10:30:33','2008-02-16 16:30:33','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/16/harte-week-6/',0,'post','',0),(402,38,'2008-02-17 18:00:34','2008-02-18 00:00:34','<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/2/17\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 4\n</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong><em>\n</em>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nThings have been a little slow at Fermi recently, so I\'ve decided to launch THE GREAT COMPLIANCE CAPER, a project wherein I will attempt to remediate every computer in need throughout the entire school. This will require some serious detective work, but I\'m generally pretty pumped about it and have already made some significant progress. On Monday, I busied myself with Ms. Love\'s and Ms. Buris-Gaines\' student and teacher computers, and on Wednesday I finished up with Ms. Buris-Gaines and moved on to Mr. Smith\'s teacher computers. Most of the computers just need updated SMS software and a new version of critical patch (which I assume can be acquired just by running Windows Update?) -- it\'s a relatively unnecessary job, but by gosh I\'m going to do it!\n\n(P.S.: Dana, if you ever have a slow day and want to join in on fighting the good fight, I\'ve put my little matrix of computers, their asset tag numbers, and their problems in the sign-in binder.)','Fermi, Week 6','','publish','open','closed','','fermi-week-6','','','2008-02-17 18:00:34','2008-02-18 00:00:34','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/17/fermi-week-6/',0,'post','',1),(403,37,'2008-02-18 13:06:53','2008-02-18 19:06:53','<strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/2/18\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> Th\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 2 </strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong><em>\n</em>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>\n\nI can\'t say much about this week, because I was only at Fermi for one day.  On Tuesday, school was apparently closed for President\'s Day, and on Friday, I had an unshakable academic commitment.  On Thursday, when I was there, I looked at Ms. Covington\'s printer again, which seems kind of touchy.  I got it working again, but we\'ll need to keep an eye on that one.  I also did my part in the GREAT COMPLIANCE CAPER by adding new SMS software to a computer in 108.  As an aside, I often do compliance work when I have nothing better to do, and it is really arduous and unrewarding.  For example, there is a computer that apparently needs 61 critical patches, but I can\'t find it.  The description says 219, but I swear it isn\'t in there.  Nonetheless, our CAPER will not be denied, and full compliance will someday be achieved.','Fermi Week 6 (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','fermi-week-6-dana','','','2008-02-18 13:06:53','2008-02-18 19:06:53','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/18/fermi-week-6-dana/',0,'post','',1),(404,35,'2008-02-18 20:04:08','2008-02-19 02:04:08','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Zhang Zhang\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/2/18\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: WF\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 6\n<strong>The School</strong>: Ray Elementary\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\n\nAs usual, I continued to take inventory for all the computers in the building. There were a few workorders as well, mostly related to computers with no hard drive space. (it\'s a result of the many patches and updates--the accumulation of all these security updates can bloat the c:Windows folder to beyond 8GB, which becomes a problem when the entire partition is only 9 GB.)  One teacher has asked a question about getting a class webpage, and that has been addressed. As I take inventory,  I am testing each of the mysterious abandoned computers to see if anything can be fixed or salvaged. A space in the basement has been set up to collect computers that teachers want to dump, so I plan on set up a station there to test computers as well. I remain (cautiously) optimistic that inventory for working computers should be finished by 2/22.\n\nNo teachers have been reporting AR problems, so it looks like ray-srv02 was indeed not being used at all.','(Zhang at Ray)','','publish','open','closed','','404','','','2008-02-18 20:04:08','2008-02-19 02:04:08','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/18/404/',0,'post','',1),(405,41,'2008-02-22 19:46:46','2008-02-23 01:46:46','<strong>Your Name: Han Zhu</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/2/21\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T Θ\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 6 (reported as 3 because I didn\'t go to work Thursday of Week 5, but that was estimated time so I have to fix it now)</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Tech for Project, Project Prep,  Helping Teacher, Lab Supervision\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nI didn\'t have a report for Week 6 because Tuesday there was no school and Thursday I had to go to Boston for a conference so I missed work again.\n\nThis week, Tuesday I did some work on Mrs. Cranley\'s blog and created a few assignments and worked on several projects for her. The highlight definitely was seeing the parents\' comments on the Shoesmith kindergarten blog -Mrs. Cranley had sent home a newsletter with instructions for the parents on how to access the blog and several of the parents said they had really enjoyed getting to know what their kids have been up to and helping their kids learn with the sight words \"flashcards\", so that made me pretty happy.\n\nThursday I edited pictures for a picture magnet project for Mrs. Cranley. I also showed her how to use First Class and to respond to comments on her blog and downloaded the Microsoft 2007 compatibility pack on her computer so she could update her blog from her classroom.  I then updated the shoesmith lab homepage per Mr. Willis\' request. I also had my first visit with Ms. Wernecke, so hopefully her blog can get up and running soon.','Week 7 at Shoesmith','','publish','open','closed','','week-7-at-shoesmith-2','','','2008-02-22 19:46:46','2008-02-23 01:46:46','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/22/week-7-at-shoesmith-2/',0,'post','',0),(406,33,'2008-02-22 10:52:47','2008-02-22 16:52:47','<p><strong>Your Name: </strong>Jackson Wright</p><p><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/2/22</p><p>[Week or date reporting about: 2/18/2008]</p><p><strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> <strong>M</strong> T W Θ <strong>F</strong></p><p><strong>Total hours for week: 5</strong></p><p><strong>The School: </strong>Mollison School</p><p><strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Lab maintenance, Lab supervision)</p><p><strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong></p><p>Lab behavior is still a huge issue.  Right now, I am in a room with a teacher, and I can\'t control anything, but there is total chaos.  Everyone is talking, people are rapping, making beats etc.  While this might be appropriate for a nice afterschool fun activity, it\'s toally not appropriate lab behavior.  I have absolutely no suggestions here except that one of the teachers is not here, and I have to deal with this state of lab disfunction and just idly sit by as teachers do nothing to fix this situation.  I am very frustrated by this situation.</p><p> I have been working on the website, which I hope to talk with Mrs. Kenan about next week and get some pictures from her computer and upload them to mine to create a kind of photo gallery.   </p><p> I just had to take steps to make the kids quiet, which I realize I\'m not allowed to do, but it was out of control.  I\'d like to be able to discuss the situation with the principal or someone other with authority at the school.</p><p>There is nothing else to report really. </p><p>Currently Listening: Middle schoolers sing popular rap songs in the lab.</p>','Mollison Week 7: What is Going on Here?','','publish','open','closed','','mollison-week-7-what-is-going-on-here','','','2008-02-22 10:52:47','2008-02-22 16:52:47','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/22/mollison-week-7-what-is-going-on-here/',0,'post','',0),(407,34,'2008-02-22 15:32:38','2008-02-22 21:32:38','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman\n<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/2/22\nReporting on most recent week\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: T F\n<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5.3\n<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle\n<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:\nTuesday I fixed Mr. Fishbein\'s memory issues for the student computer (the old \"restart-in-safe-mode\" trick worked on this computer), and looked at the computer in 103 that I had gotten a complaint about. Everything seemed to be in working order for that computer, and I haven\'t heard anything back.\n<!--more-->\n\nI also helped the social workers in the building set up and log into ChildServe on the computer it\'s set up in the lab, and that was pretty successful. I sent Mitch and Russ an email about not being able to log into INSTR on certain computers, which I believed was a local issue. Mitch replied later with a few suggestions, but I had left by the time he replied. Also on Tuesday I looked into the possibility of disabling some of the gratuitous visual effects (yes, even on Windows 2K) in order to see what effect it would have on memory. I also researched some other ways of improving memory management. This was prompted by the fact that computers E3 - E5 are essentially useless, as they all started having the memory problems. I\'ll see what I can do with those next Tuesday (didn\'t have time to get to them this Friday), and I\'ll write more on possible solutions to memory issues in future weeks (or next quarter) when I have time to test a few of them. \n\nOn Friday, I was able to test Mitch\'s second suggestion, of fully changing the workstation to being part of a workgroup, and then back to the INSTR domain, and it worked well. However, the problem disappeared on one of the computers I\'d encountered it on (C4), and appeared on another one (C6). I had just disjointed it from the INSTR domain to start fixing it, but now it\'s having the classic memory problems I\'ve seen over the last two quarters. So basically, it\'s no longer connected to INSTR <em>and</em> you can\'t get anything done with techco as a result of the memory problems. Very frustrating: I\'ll deal with it on Tuesday somehow.\n\nOn a random note, I discovered (by way of the compliance page and some detective work) that the computer in room 303, Ms. Escalona\'s room, is low on memory but she doesn\'t use it anyway. I\'ll talk to her to see if she needs it at all (she brings her laptop in), and if not and it\'s okay with her, I\'ll salvage the good parts.\n\nA teacher notified me of a problem with the computer in the in-school-suspension room. It turns out that the primary hard drive is perilously low on free space. Even though there\'s another larger drive in the computer, Windows needs a certain amount of free space on the primary to run. I moved the pagefile to the secondary drive, and defragmented. Although the space left is still quite low, it appears to be doing better. I\'ll take another look next time I have some free time.\n\nIt also happens that the printer in the lab (the...only... printer) is out of toner. It\'s effectively non-functional, and there\'s nothing I can do about it. I talked to Dr. Conlan, and she said that I could give her a list of cartridges so that she could order more of them. She forgot to mention (and I only found out by happenstance) that in her office were the many printers the school had just received, something on the order of one-per-every-classroom. Russ, do you know anything about this? Regardless, I\'ll give her the list of toner cartridges to order. I have a feeling I might end up setting up a few of those printers in the coming weeks as well.\n\nI had enough time to check out all the other printers lying around. They all work well, and one even has a sufficient amount of toner to print well! It\'s a humongous Lexmark already situated in the teacher\'s lounge, and I think I\'ll use Tuesday to set it up to replace the one with the bad drum unit. I\'ll also talk to Dr. Conlan about ordering some toner for the other one.\n\nAnd I\'m just now about to send Ms. Spector the blogging directions.\n\n<strong>Remaining Issues</strong>\n<ul>\n<li>GAHHH! RAM!!!!!!</li>\n<li>Set up the good printer in the teacher\'s lounge.</li>\n<li>Spare mice (considering Mitch\'s comment on last week\'s report)</li>\n<li>Using Canter\'s compliance website</li>\n<li>Editing the theme for this site. <em>Mitch, I\'m still not sure my permissions are set properly for this. Can you help me out?</em></li>\n<li>It would be really cool to resolve those DeepFreeze issues in the lab.</li>\n\n</ul>\n\nThese RAM issues are killing me. They really are!\n\n-Ben Hyman','Week 7 @ Canter','','publish','open','closed','','week-7-canter-2','','','2008-02-22 15:32:38','2008-02-22 21:32:38','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/22/week-7-canter-2/',0,'post','',0),(408,46,'2008-02-22 16:01:51','2008-02-22 22:01:51','Hello!  I see my name isn\'t in the list yet, so I\'ll tell you all here that I\'m Chelsea.  This is my first post, so here goes:I\'ve been working on updating the code for the school\'s website.  It was really junky with a lot of monotony, and it was made about 5 years ago with little maintennance done to it over the years.  A lot of it just needed rewritten to keep up with modern standards.  Figuring out random problems that appeared was fun, but fixing the same problems on 100+ pages of this site almost lulled me to sleep.  But, at least the boring labor is complete and maybe my next project will be more creative! :)  And I did get a refresher course in HTML by revising the site, it\'s been a while since I\'ve toyed with a website and I overall enjoyed it.  Plus, I love the power that css gives; with the press of a button, I can make the entire site green for St. Patrick\'s day, bwahahahaha!!!The lab doesn\'t have a lot of traffic during my work days, so usually I listen to some Pandora as I work.  But it\'s actually kind of nice when all the kids tear in like mad and make a ton of noise, it breaks up the silence and I half listen in on what the teacher is setting them to do.  One time they were learning to write argumentative papers, and this teacher was pretty great as far as teachers go.  He gave them a prompt that I think intentionally made them angry.  They were supposed to write in response to an essay supporting the formation of gangs, and I just heard all these 6th graders like \"What?!\"  Awesome, big difference from the battleaxe across the hall, who is probably named Hazel or Broomhilda or Ethel.  But probably Gretchen.  Anyway, she\'s a witch, pure evil.  I hear her yell and scream all the time, and I just want to say, \"Kids I have no idea what you did but I\'m on your side.\"  She\'s so awful, it\'s no wonder the kids keep acting up, you don\'t command respect by force.  I have no training in teaching and even I know that, jeez.','Murray Week 7','','publish','open','closed','','murray-week-7-3','','','2008-02-22 16:01:51','2008-02-22 22:01:51','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/22/murray-week-7-3/',0,'post','',0),(409,10,'2008-03-07 15:43:07','2008-03-07 21:43:07','Bryan Duff\nBret Harte\nWednesday: 12:15-1:15; Friday: 12:30-3:30\nTech General / Deep Freeze Installation\n\nI was able to finish installing the DeepFreeze on all the\ncomputers in the lab.  I know Shaz mentioned sending someone\nout Monday to finish up, but I think I\'m pretty much done. \nEverything seems to be in order as far as Mitch\'s guidelines\nshowed.  The exception being I did not follow through on Part\nC (included below) on the machines in rows 3, 2, or 1.  I\nfigured this could be done later.\n\nPART C:\n1. login, notice the polar bear icon in the system tray area.\n It shows DF has been installed, and also whether the computer\nis currently in a frozen or thawed state.\n 2.  Look at My computer, notice new drive letter T: and\nlabel Thaw Space.  Try making a new folder and/or files.\n 3.  To try the  non-console-based DF management for a client\ncomputer, hold Shift and double-click on the polar bear icon.  \n  4.  A password window should come up.  Enter the password\nthat was sent in the official email. (It was cps3780harte).\n  5. Notice the options for rebooting thawed, frozen, or\ntemporarily thawed.  We\'ll go over them.\n  6.  When you need to install software or adjust settings,\nthe cycle is:\n                -- Open the local controls, as above.\n                -- set to reboot thawed.\n                -- reboot.\n                -- Login as techco or the user you need to be.\n  Check the icon to see the station is thawed.\n                -- Perform the software installation or\nsettings changes.\n                -- Open the Df local control, as above.\n                -- Set to reboot frozen.\n                -- Reboot\n\nI received the Dell factory re-install disks today from Ms.\nEvans.  I\'ll be attempting to finally finish re-imaging the\nmachine in Room 110 on Wednesday.  I\'ll also be able to do so more easily in the future to other machines....nothing like Sanjaya\'s ghosting system, though.\n\nAll in all, today was a very productive day.  Thanks to Mitch\nand Shaz for helping to complete another goal for this\nquarter.  Not to look ahead too much, but here are a few more\nprojects that we ought to finish by the end of the year:\n\n1. New Lab Printer (several classrooms need new printers, too;\nbut they need to communicate with Ms. Parks)\n2. Cleaning the MDF somewhat - This could be tricky; not just\nto get rid of the trash, but we might want to put the servers\nup on tables instead of on the floor.  This would involve\nunplugging everything.  It might not be necessary.\n3. A classroom project for the EXPO (Shaz)\n\nDespite this list, we\'ve really made a lot of progress this\nquarter! Thanks again and have a good weekend!','Week 7 at Harte: Deep Freeze Installed in Lab','','publish','open','closed','','week-7-at-harte-deep-freeze-installed-in-lab','','','2008-03-07 15:43:07','2008-03-07 21:43:07','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/03/07/week-7-at-harte-deep-freeze-installed-in-lab/',0,'post','',0),(410,39,'2008-02-23 09:40:55','2008-02-23 15:40:55','<strong>Your Name:</strong> Sasha Reschechtko\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/2/23\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T W Th F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 5\n\n<strong>The School:</strong> Woodlawn Community School (Elementary)\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> (Tech general, Helping Teacher, Laptop Fleet)\n\n1. For most of the week, I continued to update the laptops (now all but one are fully updated)\n\n2. On Thursday, I helped Ms. Johnson prepare for a safety inspection.  I reorganized a lot of computer parts and brought them to storage rooms or put them on carts.','Woodlawn: Week 7','','publish','open','closed','','woodlawn-week-7-2','','','2008-02-23 09:40:55','2008-02-23 15:40:55','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/23/woodlawn-week-7-2/',0,'post','',0),(411,45,'2008-02-24 18:35:08','2008-02-25 00:35:08','<strong>Your Name</strong>: Rafael Menis\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/02/24\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 3.\n\n<strong>The School:</strong> School of Entrepreneurship.\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Helping teacher.\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Attempted to reformat 3 emacs with supplied CDs. One machine broke half-way through the process, another one started freezing up about 2/3rds of the way, and the third actually managed to format and install mac OS X properly, but still had the exact same problems as before reformatting. Connected a printer to a computer with a USB cable.','Entrepreneurship: Week 7','','publish','open','closed','','entrepreneurship-week-7','','','2008-02-24 18:35:08','2008-02-25 00:35:08','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/24/entrepreneurship-week-7/',0,'post','',1),(412,5,'2008-02-25 02:25:27','2008-02-25 08:25:27','Your Name: Dana Lutenegger\n\nToday’s Date: 2008/2/24\n\nDay(s) worked or described: T, Th, Fri\n\nTotal hours for week: 7\n\nThe School: Fermi\n\nKind of Work: Tech general\n\nMain Report or Narrative:\n\nOn Tuesday, I finally tracked down a computer that I had been trying to find for a while, and that had a lot of remediation problems.  The description said 216, but it turned out to be in 217.  I fixed most of its problems, although some still remain.  I also set up some of the computers in that room to print to the printer there.  On Thursday, Dr. Sanders asked me to set up a new computer for the school accountant, who up to this point had been using a rather pathetic computer and was now in need of a better one to run some software.  Instead of replacing the old computer, I ended up setting up the new one next to it, because I didn\'t know what programs and files needed to go onto the new one.  On Friday, I arrived to discover that Emily had totally moved all of the files and programs over to the new computer (I was pretty impressed), so that project was done.  For the rest of my time, I ended up being sucked into the mystery of Ms. Davis-Berry\'s computer, which is having a lot of problems doing everything.  I tried pretty much everything on it, but I\'ve concluded that the next step is probably a memory upgrade.  Is that extra Fermi RAM still sitting at the CUIP office? Could someone bring it to Fermi when you get a chance?','Fermi Week 7 (Dana)','','publish','open','closed','','fermi-week-7-dana','','','2008-02-25 02:25:27','2008-02-25 08:25:27','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/25/fermi-week-7-dana/',0,'post','',1),(413,38,'2008-02-25 09:01:34','2008-02-25 15:01:34','<strong>Your Name: Emily</strong>\n\n<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/2/25\n\n<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W F\n\n<strong>Total hours for week: 4</strong>\n\n<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>\n\n<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general\n\n<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>\n\nTo my utmost delight on Wednesday, I noticed that my asset tags from 3-EXCL had arrived. I spent the day changing the name of Mr. Orekoya\'s computer to what appeared on the new tag (the name before was made up...go figure), installing Acrobat on his computer, and learning from Sara about the cool new Fermi Primary blog that Ms. Kimbrough has set up. On Friday, I busied myself with moving files from the accountant\'s old cinderblock of a computer (I call it that, because both its vast size and functionality were similar to a block of cement). I also wasn\'t sure about everything she\'d need, so I just put all of her documents on a floppy and did some detective work to guess at which programs she\'d need. I was also about half-way towards showing Dr. Sanders how to select certain pictures in Picasa, but an issue came up as they were loading onto the computer and things were postponed until the future (hopefully today!).','Fermi, Week 7 (Emily)','','publish','open','closed','','fermi-week-7-emily','','','2008-02-25 09:01:34','2008-02-25 15:01:34','',0,'http://reporting.cuip.net/2008/02/25/fermi-week-7-emily/',0,'post','',0),