<strong>Your Name: Chris Furuya
</strong><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2006/02/03

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

<strong>Total hours for week: 6
</strong><strong>The School: Fuller
</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> fixing overhead projector, building computers

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

Worked in the classroom of a first grade, I don't remember the teacher's name but it reminds me of Ciabatta bread (Chabetti?), who had a series of monitors, mice, keyboards and computers in a box and needed them re-built, connected to the internet, etc. Some of the monitors are old enough that they need to be connected to the computers by screwdriver, but they're in working order. From there, it's a matter of replacing keys on keyboards, attaching headphones with weird jacks that don't correspond to the ones on the computers, and finding out what was wrong with the sound card on the one on the end (muted). There's still a television to hook up to a VCR by means unknown, I'm hoping to go to Radio Shack or Office Depot sometime soon and look for something that will transfer both audio and video from the VHS to the television, and might vaguely fit the weirdest-looking hub I have ever seen.

The computer for one of the other first grade classrooms' overhead projectors couldn't open programs, I tried logging in several ways to try to access the student file from student, admin, teacher, techco- and then found out that the teacher saved the file to the desktop of the computer on her desk. ( ! ).

From there, the overhead projector is not accepting documents from microsoft word. I hope that re-installing Word will cure the problem, in the meantime I've redirected the teacher to WordPad, which allows her to open the files. Re-installing Word scheduled for Monday.

A lot of the stuff I'm doing seems ridiculously easy- hey, the pc's on "mute," no wonder it plays sound! If the file's saved to your desktop, you can't access it from the network!- or hopeless, like trying to find adaptors for the headphones when buying another pair of headphones for  $3.99 is too much for the budget or finding cables to connect an ancient television to a fairly-modern VCR player. And I can't help but notice I'm always requested in the classrooms that can use a regular, honest-to-goodness NSP. Should I start showing up and, heck with the computers, just teaching?