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<h1> Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/04/27 – (Fri) 2007/05/04</h1>
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[I.e., about two weeks ago.]

Q.  Didn't you just the other day post a report which was for "two weeks ago"?
A. Yes, but a few days ago was part of last week.   So everything is a week older; much like racehorses that age by a year on New Year's Day.
<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>
[Note: Thursday morning was CUIP Principals Retreat]

[Note: Tuesday was a student half-day in the schools, with professional development in the afternoon]
<ol>
	<li>Leadership — Tuesday(5/1) 3:30</li>
	<li>Ray — email Saturday (4/28) 0:20; online to Ray server Sunday (4/29) 0:20; onsite monday (4/30) a.m. 0:40, monday p.m. 2:00, total = 3:20</li>
	<li>Sexton — Friday (5/4) 1:40</li>
	<li>Wadsworth — Friday (5/4)  1:10</li>
	<li>Woodlawn — email Sunday (4/29) 0:15</li>
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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>
See later report (for Week of  2007/05/12 – 2007/05/18) for status of ongoing projects  as of the date of posting this report.
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<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>
See later report (for Week of  2007/05/12 – 2007/05/18) for status of longer-term plans, as of the date of posting this report.
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<h2> This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>
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<h3> CUIP Tech EXPO</h3>
<ul>
	<li>With Sara and Shaz, made new web area for expo2007, emptied and refreshed the projects sign-up form and its data.</li>
	<li>Set up accounts for MLK-CP students on CUIP server to participate in Expo web site.</li>
	<li>I kibitzed on Jon and Sara's planning session Thursday.</li>
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<h3>Summer planning and prep</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Discussed with some techcos, at their schools or at Principals meeting.  Mary Cobb has requested Dreamweaver training.  Terry Jones agreed in principle to recap his Hardware module for new-techco group.</li>
</ul>
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<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Principals' Retreat Thursday</li>
	<li>It was wise that we made a trip to the Q-Club the day before the Retreat.  Finally got satisfactory networking!</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Good interaction with OTS folks at Principals meeting.</li>
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<h3> eCUIP</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Not really eCUIP,  but Christie had some useful comments on Library Automation for the Principals.</li>
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<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>
<ul>
	<li>    Set up consultant account access per Julia's request.</li>
</ul>
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<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>
<ul>
	<li>    Got a little more tidying and labelling done.</li>
	<li>Brought in a new replacement D-Link switch for the old 3Com <strong>HUB</strong> serving the whole room from atop Erik's desk.  Didn't install and switch over yet.</li>
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<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Friday morning the two servers in Don's office were off the network (that includes the main CUIP server).  I assumed the port had been turned off by Network Security.  But it turned out the UPS had switched off.</li>
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<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>
<ul>
	<li>We can't pin down whether a dozen or so misnamed computers on the compliance page are actually in ENTR, or Leadership, or "across the street" .  Ariel H has checked out a couple rooms at ENTR and they're correct.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fermi</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Sanjaya has been hard at work on classroom and lab computers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Kenwood</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Erik and I got Mrs Constantine into a productive discussion with Karen Sadler about laptop updates, on the  margins of the Principals  Retreat.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday (5/1) met with Ariel about Ghosting.  After we imaged one machine and went tyo do fixups, it turned out there were security restrictions.  So we started over, with Dell's  "Beatles White Album"  9-CD set.  We finished loading that and started on fixups.  Next steps: finish fixups, take image (on USB HDD, just to see the difference).</li>
	<li>Also we performed miscellaneous teacher or classroom-computer services (with Mr. Ruffin), already detailed  in email  to Russ.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Email Saturday (4/28) 0:20; online server check and scripting Sunday 0:20; onsite monday a.m. 0:40, monday p.m. 2:00 -- all about web site revision.  Monday afternoon we moved some files around and<em><strong> implemented the new site at the established address ray.cps.k12.il.us </strong></em>.</li>
	<li>Checked-in with Mary at her lab, discussed school tech management and CUIP's summer  programs.</li>
	<li>With  Sanjaya at  Principals Retreat, checked with Mary and scheduled for next week  a  briefing at Ray, for  SP to pass  along specifics of procedures he has implemented there.  We scheduled to  match Bryan's  NSP  times, and Erik and I have it in our calendars too, so it should be a full party!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Sexton</h3>
<ul>
	<li>With Sara, Louisa, and Ms. Rose, worked on wireless setup of her computer and a couple in the Library.  Louisa will follow up on Tuesday for last Library computer, and the printer.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Till</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Shaz &amp; Jimmy &amp; I are cooking up a scheme for print-as-PDF to save Ms Brady's class's cartoons.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Wadsworth</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Friday  drop-in to consult with Sharon  on software permissions in lab.   I was able to get The Print Shop working for student INSTR sign-ins on a smaple computer, but only by giving too much permission to students (specifically, adding GG-6300-Student into the Power Users local group).  This was after trying to open file permissions on the program's area, which did not work.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodlawn</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Email Sunday about TechKnow</li>
	<li>Russ took care of the Monday TechKnow session; Tuesday no school in afternoon.</li>
	<li>I will go next Monday and Tuesday.  After that, let's see how it stands.</li>
</ul>
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