Bryan Duff
Bret Harte
Friday, November 16th: 12:30-3:30

Ms. Evans was gone today, but left me the several things to check up on anyway.  

The Library is still having serious problems.  Apparently the librarian hasn't been able to use Follet or the scanning program all year and has just been letting students borrow books on good faith.  I was told Mitch was in earlier in the week, so he probably already knows about this problem.  The librarian showed me that she had found a list of the registration numbers that Mitch had apparently requested earlier in the week.  The problem is that none of the programs will open because the links to the L drive, \NtServ, are broken.  I'm not sure what this means, but it's a pretty big problem.

Also, someone from Computers For Schools called earlier in the week and Ms. Evans asked me to check on the lab to see what was needed.  I feel like the lab is in pretty good shape - even though the students have taken to messing with the wallpaper and screenpaper settings.  There are four computers which will not turn on, and though I didn't really have a chance to look at why, it seems like it was just a matter of them not having enough outlets in the lab (this was the case for two of them, which weren't plugged in). I'm not completely sure that's the case, though, and will look into it further.  The lab might always be an issue since there's not a full-time teacher there to monitor things.

Also, Ms. Evans wrote that Accelerated Math has been especially slow for some reason.  I'm not sure what it means for AM to be running slow or how this problem reveals itself, but Ms. Evans has mentioned it before.  She asked if she ought to run the Data Doctor program, but she hesitates to do so since its disruptive to all the other Star programs.  Since I wasn't entirely how big of a problem the slow AM was, I advised her to hold off on doing anything that further disrupt any of the teachers.  

All in all, things seem to be going well.  The library is a priority, though.