<strong>Your Name:</strong> Ben Hyman
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/2/15
Reporting on most recent week
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: F
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 2
<strong>The School</strong>: Canter Middle
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:

CPS schools were closed this Tuesday for Lincoln's birthday, so I didn't come in to work. There wasn't actually that much to do, so I worked 2 hours on Friday instead of 3.

I showed Ms. Spector the basics of blogging, but we didn't have an actual blog set up for her specific project. Russ, can you help me out with that? I'll email her the directions I wrote for the other teachers; I think that project kind of fizzled, but I know Ms. Spector is pretty excited about her project and already has the content she wants. Along those lines, she was worried about posting students works online -- do you know if there's any property rights issue she has to worry about with that? Anyway, it was really very enjoyable explaining blogging to her, definitely one of the highlights of my time at Canter.

I also discovered that the "library" is more of a textbook repository, and is only used for in-school suspension purposes. Basically, there's no need for me to worry about library automation systems.

Lastly, I successfully took apart the computer that had been in the teacher's lounge (significant screwdriver usage), but it turns out the RAM that had been difficult to get at didn't even work in other computers. Canter is officially out of spare RAM!

After more stuff gets done, hopefully I can get working with Russ on planning projects for teachers!!!

<strong>Remaining Issues</strong>
<ul>
<li>Mr. Fishbein's computer with RAM issues.</li>
<li>Sending Ms. Spector blogging directions and setting up her blog so she can practice. <em>Russ, can you help me set that up?</em>
<li>Spare mice (considering Mitch's comment on last week's report)</li>
<li>Using Canter's compliance website</li>
<li>Implementing more printers around the building</li>
<li>Editing the theme for this site. <em>Mitch, I'm still not sure my permissions are set properly for this. Can you help me out?</em></li>
<li>It would be really cool to resolve those DeepFreeze issues in the lab.</li>
<li>I should find out about implementing those spare printers lying around.</li>
<li>Eventually, I hope to start working with teachers/students, but I don't know how much flexibility and free time the teachers have in their lessons plans. Russ, what have you been doing at Canter with the teachers so far?</li>
</ul>
Quote of the Week: "My knee hurts." -Me, 2:53 PM, 2/15/08. It does!

-Ben Hyman