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<strong>Your Name</strong>: Sasha Reschechtko

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/05/18

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

<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 5

<strong>The School:</strong> Woodlawn Community School

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Inventory, (failed) OS loading, Discovering Computers, TechKnow

Monday, I tried to load the Windows 2000 on a computer that had stop error (inaccessible boot device).  I failed multiple times, and got all sorts of funny error messages I haven't seen before.  I tried swapping hard disks, but that didn't seem to help anything.

Tuesday, I started working on the same computer, but then Ms. Johnson said that what is really important (we have working computers in all the classrooms, as far as we know) is cleaning up the TechKnow room.  She then showed me a storage room to put things from the TechKnow room in.  I'd never been in that storage room before, and it turned out to be full of computers--and supposedly they work!  Some of them are pretty old (an IBM with a 1.44" floppy but no other removable storage, and four 4 mb memory modules), but there are a lot of computer that are the same as the Compaqs we have in most classrooms.  In light of this discovery, I think we will be a little less cautious about asset removal, which we're going to do some time next week, probably.

Wednesday, I came to Woodlawn in the afternoon to work on TechKnow.  The kids all took apart and put back together (generally with upside-down cables) their computers, and I think we only had one problem I haven't yet been able to sort out with a computer.  A lot of people are having problems getting their computers--Optiplex GX260s--to close after they finish working on them.  I have very rarely had this problem (it's a font-hinged case, and pretty big), but I would guess it largely has to do with sloppy cable routing, although I may be wrong (if you have another idea of what it is or might be, please let me know)...

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