
<h1> Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/05/12 – (Fri) 2007/05/18</h1>
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.[MM out sick Wed. 5/16]

[Friday was Progress Report day in the schools]
<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>
[MM out sick Wed. 5/16]
[Friday 5/18 was Progress Report day in the schools]
<ol>
	<li>Fiske -- Tuesday (5/15) - 1:15</li>
	<li>Kenwood -- Monday (5/14) -- 2:15 onsite + 20 min email followup -- Total = 2:35</li>
	<li>Leadership -- Tuesday (5/15) - 2:15</li>
	<li>Till -- Tuesday (5/15) - 0:45 -- Friday (5/18) - 1:00 -- Total = 1:45</li>
	<li>Woodlawn -- Monday (5/14) -- 1:15 onsite + 15 min email followup -- Total = 1:30</li>
</ol>
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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do's</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Swap in the new D-Link switch in place of old 3Com HUB for our room AAC-007.
<ul>
	<li>Not done this week,</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
	<li>     WordPress themes/plugins winnowing project:
<ul>
	<li>Erin's results have been in for a while</li>
	<li>Shaz has provided useful points on the plugins</li>
	<li>Trial blog with Default theme using sidebar widgets this week checked with staff, workalike functionality fine when not activated.  Substituted this in for Default and Classic in the WP standalone newblog setup.</li>
	<li>Made some updates and deletions in Themes for the newblog distribution, still plenty left to do</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>
<ul>
	<li>CUIP office desktop backups system.  No progress this week.</li>
	<li>CUIP servers backups
<ul>
	<li> Internal / onboard.  This week: played around a little with the different styles of cross-mounting.  See if live web service will work with a NFS or a CIFS (SAMBA) mount.</li>
	<li>External.  Forwarded to Shaz the Galtsev correspondence.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>CUIP main server webserver/blogging/etc  software upgrade plan
<ul>
	<li>Note: The theme/plugins winnowing projec, a prerequisite to this general plan, is listed above in the Ongoing Projects section</li>
	<li>Build Apache 2.x, run on separate port (say 180).</li>
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<ul>
	<li>Convert our many VHOST entries to Apache 2 system</li>
	<li>Staff assignments to check various VHOSTS and services (e.g. webmail, MDBC forum) on alternate port</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>PHP 5</li>
	<li>MySQL 5 (DONE)</li>
	<li>Repeat staff-assigned check of VHOST and services, including standalone WP blogs, with Apache 2 / PHP 5 / MySQL 5, still on alternate port</li>
	<li>Switchover</li>
	<li>Re-repeat staff-assigned check of VHOST and services, finally on standard port 80.</li>
	<li>Read up on newer versions of WPMU than the one we tried before.  [Obviously, this " step" can start earlier.]</li>
	<li>Install WPMU; staff tryout; release</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>
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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>
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<h3>Summer planning and prep</h3>
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<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>
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<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>
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<h3> eCUIP</h3>
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<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>
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<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>
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<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>
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<h3>Personal Professional-Development Activities</h3>
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<h2> This week's activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3>Fiske</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday (5/15).</li>
	<li>Erik got some of the Fiske students started on a PowerPoint to present &amp; explain the Nubia Project  -- this will be their Tech Expo display!</li>
	<li>Check-in and update-conversations with Wilbert Miller.</li>
	<li>The older server (Fiske-srv01) is low on space on C drive.  Running Server 2003 but no Service Pack level.   The  automatic OTS update to install SP2 did not work (we didn't expect it to), but at least didn't totally fill up the C: drive while trying.  Auto-updates is on and had downloaded a couple of patches; I clicked to install them but some failed.  On reboot the server needed manual keypress intervention , because one of the array drives is malfunctioning.  We discussed whether to be in a hurry to replace, and they probably will not.  But we should move any crucial services off to Fiske-srv02; the only obvious thing is Follett, and by next year maybe they will be on CPS-wide library automation anyway.</li>
	<li>We discussed First-Class and how it may interact with the INSTR domain  student accounts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Kenwood</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Monday  (5/14) with Erik, met with Damaris Constantine to discuss and try out laptop wireless management options.</li>
	<li>The  procedures  discussed  with Karen  Sadler  after   the Prinipals' Retreat weren't actually working fully.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday (5/15).  Worked with Ariel on setup of source computer for GX270 image.  Then we saved the image both to CUIP portable USB HDD and the Entrepren-srv01  server.</li>
	<li>Reports from teachers about Verify problems.  Since we lack expertise in setting that up / fixing it, and Russ does have that expertise and is expected at the school Wednesday (next day), we just relayed the problem reports to him.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Till</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday (5/15).  Checked with Sudduth, White, and Jacobson about Expo plans.  Jacobson will show the two Book Club blogs (Charlotte and Wright).</li>
	<li>Friday (5/18).   From request by Sudduth, went to Ali's teacher desk computer, which was not going on network.  Very weird and interesting problem that may indicate some OTS system changes!  (Did get solved.)</li>
	<li>Also talked with Sudduth about class attendance coming to the Expo.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodlawn</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Monday (5/14) attended meeting on E-Rate Year 9 LAN Improvement Project planning for Woodlawn. Notes therefrom sent to Don and Shaz.</li>
</ul>
<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong> (Would you care to share an aphorism, proverb, quip, epigram, "...Not!" gotcha, overheard remark, excerpt, brief lyric, stanza, or quotation?)

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