<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2007/11/09
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tu, F
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 5 (listed as 4 on timecard, see note on previous entry)
<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: On Tuesday, I spent a fair amount of time on printer scripting in room 207. I communicated with Mitch and Russ on specific instructional problems I had with this and the wiki, but I got everything fixed in the end. It was quite the intriguing and educational challenge! I also futzed around with the CD drive on what used to be W14 under the old naming system, but is now known and labeled as C2. I discovered Tuesday there was nothing wrong with the actual reader, since I booted from a Linux LiveCD just fine.

Friday, I met with Mitch and we talked of many things; specifically, there was some discussion about ADUC and organizational units, and we went over some things about printer scripting and whatnot. Though I may not be able to write it all here, fear not, as I've successfully internalized it all. We also set up a blog for a teacher who requested it, and I'll be working on that with her this upcoming Tuesday.

Also Friday, I successfully fixed the CD drive! Still not sure what was up with it, but for now, it's opening consistently and Windows is picking it up. The only thing I did today unusual was to put the paper-clip inside the hole and push it around a bit, but that no longer has to be done every time. Maybe it was a mechanical thing?

I started the process of labeling every computer, and I've done three rows so far. I used blue and pink post-it notes and scotch tape. What follows is a map from the old naming convention to the new one.

W1 - W6: A1 - A6
W7 - W12: B1 - B6
W13 - W18: (will be) C1 - C6
S1 - S5: D1 - D5
S6 - S10: E1-E6

In other words, every row along a wall, as well as the two rows in the center of the room, get a unique letter. I alternated post-it colors and whatnot, but it should be easy to identify regardless. I went ahead and edited the descriptions on A1 - A6, B1 - B6, D1 - D6, and the ones I could do in row E. I'll finish up the labeling job on Tuesday.

Mitch told me about a profile memory issue that's been appearing throughout CPS schools. I told him that one of the computers in room 207 was suffering the same problem, and I'll wait to hear back on what I should do about that. I DID NOT TELL HIM because I found out afterwards that what is now E4 (previously S9) is having the same problem as well.

E1 may or may not be working, but I didn't have the chance to check. It's powered off and the case is not completely on, so there you go.

All in all, a productive week. Tuesday I'll be working with a teacher on a wiki/blog, and I can finish the labeling process. I also want to coordinate with Ms. Ahad about disseminating my email to all the teachers, and getting a list of their emails so that I can better communicate with them as need be. As far as I understand, that's all of the work out of the way, so I'll need to figure out something to work on for next Friday.

-Ben Hyman