Your Name: Louisa Gambrill

Today’s Date: 2008/05/12 [2008/05/05]

Day(s) worked or described: T Th

Total hours for week:4.5

The School: Reavis

Kind of Work: Tech general

Main Report or Narrative:

Tuesday,

I started in the lab with Ms. Alberaz’s class.  There were some difficulties.  Her class hadn’t been able to get the ‘student’ login working, so they had used ‘school’.  I demonstrated student login, (which worked just fine) and she assured me that was exactly what she had done.  And, in fact, she had called in another teacher to help before I showed up.  Is there any possibility that a login can temporarily malfunction?

The other problem she had was that her class was running a program that required flash, and not all of the computers had it.  So, after she left, I downloaded adobe flash for the computers that didn’t have it.

Also, I made numbers and tagged each of the computers and monitors, for easier communication.  On that note, computer 9 still doesn’t have MS office.

Finally, I met with Mr. K: he has ditched his video project since he doesn’t have enough time left in the year.  But Ms. Nichols and Ms. Linnaeus have a different video project in the works.  And Ms. Alberez wants help working on the school website- I’d love to help out, but I’m afraid I don’t have much web building skills.

Mr. K. plans to order headphones for the lab, and wants to know if we recommend some brand.

Thursday,

Was a pretty short day, since the school had an ‘Olympics’ day, and all the classes went outside just after I showed up.  I started in the lab, with Ms. Linnaeus’s class.  Things were running much smoother for them.  Although, they too had used the school login.  While were doing research on the Olympics, the students took notes on paper, and not having a printer didn’t seem to be a problem.  They did tell me that the central, wireless computers acted a little oddly, but weren’t too much of a problem.

I had planned to meet with Ms. Nichols to discuss her Legacy video project, but with the Olympic events, I couldn’t find her.  Next time I see her I’ll show her some of the blogs from teachers at Sexton, and suggest that her project might resemble theirs’.  If she, or other teachers, decide they want blogs, should I talk to Sara?