<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/12/11

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

<strong>Total hours for week: 4</strong>

<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

<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.