<strong>Your Name:Colin Day
</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2010/02/22

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

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

<strong>The School:<em>Wadsworth</em></strong><em></em>

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

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

<strong> </strong>This is my first web report, took me long enough, so we'll see how it goes...

Most of my time was spent working on the laptops that Wadsworth got through a donation. For the most part, they all work fine, except nearly every one has about a twenty minute battery life. There are a few that are missing keys and one that is totally dead, but the others have the potential to function as desktop computers very well. Mrs. Cooksey is pushing me to get them done, though I'm not really sure why because I don't really know what she is going to do with them. My suggestion would be to replace some of the ancient Acers with them and at least a few of the teacher computers because I have had several teachers ask me for a better computer. But I'm only a part time tech guy, so I'll leave the decision making up to her. It also has taken me quite a bit longer with the laptops than I anticipated because I went through about twenty to twenty five of them, fixing the techco accounts and such but I didn't thaw them so all my work was for naught. Though now I have streamlined a method for getting them done efficiently and I can reconfigure about four computers every twenty minutes. I am going to try to bring in a surge protector thing so that I can plug in more and get more accomplished. I'm not sure I will have a purpose after they are done though, teachers haven't complained about their computers in a while, which makes me happy.

Other than the laptops I only had a few things to do, Mrs. Cooksey asked me to see what was wrong with a computer in the library - nothing. One computer couldn't get online because the ethernet cable was unplugged. I spent almost all of the time on the laptops though.