<strong>Your Name: </strong>Tommy Butterfoss<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/11/22

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

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

<strong>The School: </strong>Canter<em>
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<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Lab supervision

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Ms. Banks had surgery this week, so there was a sub in the lab every day. On Monday, I went around to the computers that weren't working (Ms. Banks left notes on all of them). One had a "broken" monitor (the plug was loose in the back). Microsoft Word on another was locked or something and wouldn't let any of the students save their work, so I just re-installed it and it worked fine. One had a note that said it wouldn't boot up, but I tried it and after about 15 minutes it finally worked, so I think that one just takes a while. Another one kept hanging on running start-up scripts for 10 minutes, then going into the log-in screen, and whenever I tried to log in it said "explorer.exe is throwing an error" or something and wouldn't work. I looked it up, and after 10 minutes windows just gives up trying the startup scripts and tries to continue booting, so apparently an important script isn't working. I swapped out that computer with a donated one that we had running so there would be enough computers for every class. That took most of my day Monday, but I started installing W2K on a donated compaq toward the end of the day. The next day the sub was "not a computer person" so she had me go around and help any of the students who asked her anything. I just helped some log in (and explained case-sensitive passwords to them), helped some find the right website, helped some use powerpoint, etc. Once school was over for the day, it was back to the donated computers. Jimmy and I were plugging away at those when the network stopped working. We went to investigate and discovered it was just scheduled maintenance on the server. While doing that we ran into a teacher whose monitor was "broken" and fixed that (it was also just loose in the back). I managed to install windows on one of the compaqs, and it didn't need a single driver (a Thanksgiving miracle!).