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<h1>Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/05/05 – (Fri) 2007/05/11</h1>
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<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>
<ol>
	<li>Ray -- Tuesday 5/8, 1:10</li>
	<li>Till -- Thurs (5/10) 3:00</li>
	<li>Woodlawn – Monday 5/7, 2:45;Tuesday 5/8, 3:00; Wednesday 5/9 1:30;  Thurs (5/10) 0:10; total = 7:25</li>
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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>
See later report (for Week of  2007/05/12 – 2007/05/18) for status of ongoing projects, as of the date of posting this report.

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<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>
See later report (for Week of  2007/05/12 – 2007/05/18) for status of longer-term plans, as of the date of posting this report.

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<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Swap in the new D-Link switch in place of old 3Com HUB for our room AAC-007.
<ul>
	<li>Not done this week,</li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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<h2>This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>
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<h3>CUIP Tech EXPO</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Heck yes!</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Summer planning and prep</h3>
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<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>
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<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Postings to CPS Techco iShare discussion board, and related email with Sandip, concerning how to do INSTR student updates when SI is out of the picture.  Got an answer, automatic "provisioning" of student accounts is expected to be working by next week.</li>
	<li>Email with Karen Sadler, looking for her stamp of approval on notes for how to keep wireless laptops updated.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>eCUIP</h3>
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<h3>CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>
A little more cleanup and labelling.
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<h3>CUIP Servers</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Finally I had a chance to start tracking this again.  (Scared by last Friday's incident, which turned out to be just power failure.)  Issues are disk usage, backups, and security.</li>
	<li>Looking for  additional/better  ways of using the NAS  units (the boxes on Erik's desk).  So far  it has been for copying-off things like backup files.  Looking into whether can be used for something mounted live.  But probably not regular user areas: the mounted extension does not use the host's user list or have multi owner/permission options of its own.  So maybe things like old Expo or old WIT sites?  Need to check that these remote cross-mounted files can be web-served!</li>
	<li>Following the power-failure, not all the cross-mounting connections restarted themselves cleanly.  That needs to be cleared up before relying on those for anything much.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Personal Professional-Development Activities</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Did a little more Visual Basic Scripting studying than strictly required for the Till printer problem.</li>
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<h2>This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3>Ray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday: With Mary Cobb, Erik, Bryan, and Sanjaya.  SP reviewed for the rest of us the documentation and system for maintaining Ghost images for the different models in use at Ray.  "Magic ISO" is a great little program SP found, which let him get those multiple boot floppies onto single CDs with boot-time user menu interactoin to get the right one into play!</li>
	<li>Brief check-in with Gabe Sheridan.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Till</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Thurs 5/10 fr 3 hr.  Checked in with Sudduth:
<ul>
	<li>Recent office network problem solved by replacing switch</li>
	<li>She reports that teachers have adjusted to IMPACT well (all they need to do so far is attendance), but office staff still very burdened by it.   Looking into how to do the upcoming Progress Reports (not yet Report Cards) thru IMPACT.</li>
	<li>Comparatively long-standing classroom connectivity problem [405/7/9,  Moyenda / Teague / White]. also apparently solved by equipment replacement</li>
	<li>Discussed her experience with Jacobson's field trip to Art Institute</li>
	<li>Next year's reading plans in Area 15</li>
	<li>Springfield (IL) system web pages, very complete literacy site online, including system calendar</li>
	<li>Discussed calendars -- Google, Ed Helper</li>
	<li>I reiterated in person the gist of Sandip's email yesterday about holding off current INSTR student updates, and how the First Class based system is expected to work</li>
</ul>
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	<li>Checked with Teague and Moyenda (White was not available).  They are satisfied.</li>
	<li>Some CDROM-based program in Ms Davis's room (411?) on the student computer was working for techco or for Sudduth under her own login, but not for Library4740 or Ms Davis's login or the students' logins.  The error message was about "can't install driver in C:windows, check if drive is full".  Of course the full-disk part is total red herring.    I added INSTRGG-4740-student (and INSTRGG-4740-staff) into this-computerPowerUsers.</li>
	<li>Checked in with Jacobson.  Computers and network in Library are fine.  She told me additional anecdotes about the Art Inst field trip.  Saw Jim Wagner, teachng FirstClass at Medill</li>
	<li>Z's  "extra printer entry" problem addressed by using RemovePrinterConnection() in the Till student logon script, printer section for rm 204.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodlawn</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Sentinel has approved them for wireless.  Next Monday there will be a pre-installation meeting (and walk-thru) with Sentinel, Techco, Engineer, and Principal.  We're invited too.</li>
	<li>The default IE homepage for students as defined in GPO fell outside of the defined DreamWeaver site for this year's lab curriculum.  Shaz and Pierre already worked with Carisa to neaten and organize the DW sites , so we left that undisturbed and instead changed the student homepage URL  in Group Policy so it would match the redefined DW upload paths.</li>
	<li>Monday  (5/7) worked with the TechKnow group.  Thanks to Sara and Russ for covering this last week.  Russ's advice, to have the students really check the power and data connections well, was very helpful.  Today all students pretty quickly got HDD and CDROM detected in BIOS setup screen (some did not show the floppy diskette detected, we tried reconnecting but did not remove machine from OS installation).  Today's activity was OS installation.  They've been given XP Home verson.  Book is a little off, talks about W2K; also it explains more about software package installation on an operating computer with OS already in place, out of place ahead of the OS install from CDROM boot.</li>
	<li>Tuesday  (5/8): More TechKnow.  Before the session, Carisa and I went in and reviewed the stopping-place each student had reached.  During the session, three more students started the OS installation phase, most others completed it.  She decided to defer the Office install (and modem install) until Wednesday's make-up session or (as needed) next week.  Two computers seem to be in trouble.</li>
	<li>Wednesday:  (5/9) More TechKnow.  (Make-up day -- optional for the students but most were there.)  The ones who were caught up got their Office CDs and did an installation and activation.   Carisa and I struggled with a few who were having hardware or OS-install problems, and up until almost the very end thought she might need to ask Bob for spares (or dig in the CUIP storeroom), but in the last 20 minutes or so, with some swapping of parts, it looks like both Jameeka and Brittany will be okay.  They will need to complete their OS installs and otherwise catch up, but they can do that tomorrow, neither is going on the Canada field trip.</li>
	<li>Thursday (5/10) email about sporadic / intermittent  problem with student network folders.  But I didn't get there until 3:30 and CRBJ was gone.</li>
</ul>
<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong> (Would you care to share an aphorism, proverb, quip, epigram, “…Not!” gotcha, overheard remark, excerpt, brief lyric, stanza, or quotation?)

My uncle is sick but the road is green.

<strong>(Optional) What’s playing now?:</strong>

Bartok,  Concerto for Orchestra