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

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/2/10

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

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

<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>

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

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This was a relatively slow week, but also relatively successful. On Monday, I switched Mr. Orekoya's grumpy old Acer for one of the new student computers he'd received from Computers for Schools. I then realized that this was one of the computers which hadn't been properly remediated, and so went about trying to resolve that issue. Unfortunately, the computer had never been given an asset tag, so I ordered a few (I got three, since there seemed to be about three or four computers on the Fermi network which don't have proper asset IDs). On Wednesday, I played around with the gym teacher's computer (her name sounds like Ms. Smith, but it's not Smith...). She wanted to install some software and wasn't able to, a problem which I initally thought was just a simple issue of needing a techco login. However, the issue turned out to be somewhat more significant, since neither of the CD-ROM drives in her computer would recognize a disc. I played around with the drivers for a little while before opening up the case and poking around inside. This was somewhat daunting, and I spent about five or ten minutes thinking that I'd killed the darn thing (I eventually discovered that the wire connecting the power switch to the motherboard had come loose), but somehow I got it to work...at least temporarily. I also spent a little time with Ms. Berry, who was having some quota errors and just needed a restart. On Friday, I worked with Ms. Love's student computers, both of which were running slowly and one of which was not remediated. I spent most of the day installing some software, remediating the computer, and playing around with virtual memory settings (which seemed to make a bit of a difference). I also gave Ms. Alexander a very basic tutorial on FirstClass and installed some Adobe product on one of Ms. Freckleton's student computers.