<strong>Your Name: </strong>Tommy Butterfoss<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/01/12

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>6

<strong>The School: </strong>Canter

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Helping Teacher

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This week I started installing donated computers in classrooms. I got new computers, monitors, and keyboards (but not mice) in 305, 303, 306, 205, 203, and 201, though not without difficulties. The biggest one was finding monitors that worked- I must have spent at least an hour in and out of the storage closet, digging around for monitors that had all the cords they needed. We had plenty of standard power cords in the closet in the lab, but some of the monitors required different power cords and we didn't have any extra cables to connect the monitors to the computer, and only about 1 in 4 of the monitors had all the cords they needed in their box. While digging around in the storage room, I also found about a dozen (new?) printers in boxes, as well as ancient monitors/keyboards/mice etc. I also found a musical keyboard and some miniature xylophones, the sad remnants of what appears to be a forgotten music program. Perhaps the next big project should be going through the closet and getting rid of all the old stuff that will never be used again and organizing the stuff we might actually need.

The other major problem I ran into was where to put everything. The storage closet is something of a mess and doesn't seem to be clearing out at all, even with all the monitors and computers I'm taking out of it, but my little corner of the lab is full of all the classrooms' old computers and monitors. I don't really know how the asset disposal system works, but I think getting rid of what's in there ASAP would probably be a good idea.

<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong> It was nice to finally install some of these computers in classrooms. Even though they aren't the greatest machines, they are better than what the teachers used to have, and they all seem grateful. It's also a nice way for me to introduce myself to all the teachers I haven't met yet and ask them if they need anything, have any technology ideas, etc. Some of the students also know my name and say hello to me, which is encouraging.