<strong>Your Name: </strong>Allan Zhang<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2011/4/09

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

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>8

<strong>The School: </strong>Reavis

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This week was relatively tame in Reavis, as I'm in this period where there isn't too much going on other than the more mundane things. Tuesday started off with some more tech problems in the Computer Lab. The power plugs on the monitors keep on getting knocked loose, and kids seem to be changing the input type on the monitors as well, probably by accident. I worked a little bit in the computer lab, but soon I went to go fix a problem in Room 214. The same computer that had the I/O parity error twice before was acting up again, but, like before, the problem just went away on its own. I'm really not sure what's going on with that computer, though I suspect that either the Motherboard or the wiring is going to give sometime soon.

Up in Room 205, the internet connection on the first computer was somehow not working, though it just turned out that the wireless connection stopped automatically connecting to the internet for whatever reason. Easy enough fix. Down in Room 114, I again had trouble with the computer there, as it seemed like the Wireless card software was again conflicting with the Windows wireless configuration. After fiddling with it a while, I just re-installed the Wireless Drivers and the problem went away. I had to get picked up early on Tuesday, so that was all I got done.

On Friday, I learned that the stuff that we ordered back on Friday of last week actually arrived on Tuesday, it's just that I never met up with Mrs. Alverado that day, so I didn't know. In any case, I first checked back in on the computer lab, making sure that it was still up and running. I noticed that another mouse (or perhaps two?) got stolen, and so Terry made the suggestion to order the plastic cable ties. Mrs. Alverado placed the order for them, and so I'm going to hold off on adding any additional mice to the computer lab until those come in.

I also went to work on examining some more computers that I had placed into storage. I had placed 2 into storage last week, but I didn't actually check to see if one of them was functioning properly. They turned out to be just fine (though a tad on the slow side), so I can go out and place them wherever. However, the problem at Reavis is that teachers don't have the space in their classrooms to place these computers to begin with, as the only sockets in the room are awkwardly placed, and CPS regulations means that we'll have to grab multiple extension cords to get power to the actual available space in the classrooms. So for now, those computers will be stuck in storage, but I'll put them into the computer lab next week as I got the all-clear from Mr. Khelghati.

I also took a lunch break after talking with Terry, as I was absolutely starving for some food. Note: Subway is really, really, really busy during lunchtime.

But anyway, after I grabbed some food, I went upstairs to room 211 to replace the toner cartridge for the printer, which fixed the problem of the printer not printing the middle of the document. I then got called into room 5 to examine the computers there, which for some reason wasn't letting a parent access her e-mail. It turns out that it wasn't really the computer's fault as opposed to AOL being really cranky [again] (Yahoo Mail and Gmail worked just fine). After that, the building closed down, so I hung out in the office for a while, trying to figure out what to do with the scanner in room 103, as I'm sure that no one was using it. Personally I feel like its placement is rather wonky, but there really is no other place to put it, so I just left it there for now.