The past two weeks at Fermi have been dedicated to constructing a plan of action for the year as well as fixing some problems for teachers.

Last Thursday, Sara and I went around to every classroom and inquired as to what each teacher needed from us.  We also reintroduced me to the old teachers and introduced me to the new teachers for the first time.  After that day, we came up with a fairly extensive list of requests and documented them in a google doc.  That document is available and amendable by myself, Sara, and the new employee in Fermi. 

This Thursday was spent getting down to business.  The first and most urgent priority was to equip the newest teacher, Ms. Sokol, with a set of computers.  She is brand new to the school, just starting this last Monday.  The three computers in her room were all useless as were two of the three monitors.  I brought down two of the newer dells and set them up.  They were both faster than her computer, so she asked me to switch her CPU with one of the new ones.  I did that.  As of right now, one cannot log onto the Fermi network using the School username.  I will check back next Thursday to ensure that the update took place and that students have access to the computers.  In addition, her old computer does a file synchronization every time you log off, but always fails, and never accomplishes anything.  I am waiting to here back on how to fix that.  She also requested a third computer, a printer, and a program installed on her computers.  I will check back next Thursday and start that. 

Mr. Gaines complained that his computer was slow, especially when running multiple windows, and requested more ram.  I was able to find a compatible 256MB so he now has 512MB of ram.  I also ran the chkdsk utility and defragemented the hard drive.  The computer is now noticably faster, at least relative to any other computer in the building.

Ms. Buris Gaines had some problems with Adobe Flash Player.  I logged on as an administrator and updated her flash player so that she was able to utilize the educational games for her students.   I also found a few working speakers and was able to outfit 3 of her 4 computers with speakers.  I need to find compatible cords and place speakers on the fourth computer.

Lastly, I removed a defunct monitor from Ms. Freckleton's room.  I predict that within a few weeks there will be enough equipment to order a trash removal.