Your Name: Cliff Taylor

Today’s Date: 2010/4/22

Day(s) worked or described: Thursday

Total hours for week:3.5

The School: Fermi Elementary

Kind of Work: Printer Repair.

Main Report or Narrative:

I didn't write a report last week, but during that time I cleaned up the lab.  We now have over 50 pieces of equipment that we can use for asset disposal.  I need to speak with Dr. Sanders to see if she wants to get rid of them.  Do we want to dispose of all the computer and monitors, and if we want to keep some for spares, how many do we want?

This week I was working on printers.  Mr. Hinton, Ms. Buris-Gaines, and the lab printers weren't working.  For the lab computer, the paper settings were incorrect so I reset them.  For Ms. Buris-Gaines, somehow the default printer got switched to a PDF converter.  Mr. Hinton's computer were off but once I turned them on, one printer had 20 print jobs awaiting.  This happens often here.  Kids will be impatient, and if it doesn't print immediately will click print 5-10 times so that there are multiple print jobs of the same documents.  This backs it up quite a bit.  I explained to Mr. Hinton that he should get the kids to only hit print once and to let that process so there aren't upwards of 20 jobs for the printer.

I've been talking with Mr. Hinton, Ms. Sbarboro, and Mr. Taylor about making a technology plan for the school.  Mr. Hinton wants to teach his students how to use the computers for research, i.e. reliable information online instead of just wikipedia.  I will be working on that throughout the rest of the quarter and try to have some type of plan by 8th week.