<strong>Your Name: </strong>Sasha Reschechtko

<strong>Today’s Date: </strong>2011/03/31

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

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>6:00

<strong>The School: </strong>Bret Harte 

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

<strong>Report or Narrative: </strong>Got back to work on Monday; Ms. Glover wasn't in but there were a couple of work orders to check in on.  A teacher wanted to block a certain website in the computer lab (it's a game website).  I went ahead and blocked it with insight, but  my guess is that that method of block is generally ineffective because there are a lot of websites where  students can play games instead of doing work.  It would probably make sense, at some point, to think about being more systematic about web limiting (maybe only allowing certain sites instead of blocking certain ones).  This is probably something to discuss with Ms. Glover, but she never seems to be around; the past week it seems that there are just substitutes in the computer lab.

There was also a kind of odd problem with a wireless card that seemed to stop working; I just pulled the card and put it back in the comptuer and it seemed to start working again (it looked like the antenna had been dropped or something because the base was mutilated, but I don't think that affected the antenna itself).

I spent most of Wednesday and today working on Ms. Goosby's computer, which had some sort of annoying virus that tells you that your computer has a virus and that you should pay a lot of money to get rid of it.  I sent an email about this, but pretty much I ended up deleting Ms. Goosby's local account and the virus seems to have gone with it; Ms. Goosby's account was regenerated when she logged in again and I think all of her files are accessable through "my documents" on the server.

I think word has also gotten around that the printer in the lab works and does color; a lot of people (primarily teachers) have been printing on it (from the lab).  Don't know if this is a problem or not, but we'll see what happens...