
<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>
(Taking Friday 2/2 as a day off.  Groundhog Day, and James Joyce's birthday.  I hear the noise of many waters, far below.)
<ul>
	<li>Canter  1:20</li>
	<li>ENTR 1:15</li>
	<li>Murray 1:15</li>
	<li>Sexton 2:30</li>
	<li>Till 5:00</li>
	<li>Wadsworth 6:50</li>
</ul>
<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do's</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Wadsworth — Install Harcourt Reading student client program for Ms Coffey in lab 221. (The server side is already installed.)
Installed the teacher and student programs on client computers <strong>in her classroom</strong>, 225.  Started on the 221 lab machines, but encouraging her to wait for a new lab.  See other item on status of 221.</li>
	<li>Ray — see if a different domain altogether can share the WPMU installation, or needs another.
-- Needs separate one.</li>
	<li>Sexton NSIT machines: Brought forward: "Bring HDD for sixth machine, or else remove it. Place in classrooms per discussion with tech comkittee."
This week progress:  We (Sara, Christie, and I) did the setup of two, in Ms. Ludlow's and Ms. Khan's rooms.  Will return next week.</li>
	<li>Price laptop lockouts: get the story
--Still unknown.  (To me anyway.)</li>
	<li>“Wadsworth — 221 row-by-row fixup to continue” .  Last week: "Did continue, Thursday with Noah. Needs a some more attention, at least one more time. See notes below in schools section — I no longer trust that this room can be kept going as a reliable lab."
Now feeling a bit better about the prospects of this, though it will not perform at level of new labs. Have added a continuing item for checking this lab, as well as Till 206.  I don't think we have actually touched every machine in here, for INSTR re-jining etc, so that might be a first order of business along with the Harcourt Reading client installation.</li>
	<li>Wordpress Multiuser: Last week: Installation and fancy DNS setup are DONE. Showed to CUIP staff.  "To do: Make decent text front page. Prune themes and plugins. Continue staff testing before general release."
Still need to do the front page etc.  Not sure if staff tryouts are proceeding apace.</li>
	<li>WP 2.1 — ugrade most freestanding weblogs. Distribute themes and plugins, taking care not to clobber existing mods.
See next item.</li>
	<li>“Make sure all bloggers have access to special themes or plugins via shared collection.”  Last week: "Will be done in conjunction with upgrade to Wordpress 2.1"
Trying to do that today (Thurs 2/1). May wait for the weekend. Need toseparate the plugins/themes from the other upgrade files; revise "newblog" script so it <strong>does</strong> pick up all the themes; and establish the upgrade copy routine so it <strong>does not</strong> clobber anything already in place (because it may have been edted by our bloggers!), yet <strong>does</strong> supply any missing ones.</li>
	<li>“Check nsp mailman list enrollments” Last week sad: "Done, but hurriedly. Recheck, and add subsequent new students."
Now done.  Revisit after next group of NSPs go to their schools.</li>
	<li>“Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS” or other CMS
–Still deferred</li>
	<li>“Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups in CUIP lab”
– Still a to-do
<strong>BUT do not defer forever the basic shared-drive setup for Sara and Shaz! Do that sooner! </strong></li>
	<li>“Carried forward:: Track down my writeup in email (to Duff) to put inWiki documentation for INSTR at</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://techwiki.cuip.net/HowTo_Update_Student_INSTR_Accounts_with_Legacy_SI_Data">http://techwiki.cuip.net/HowTo_Update_Student_INSTR_Accounts_with_Legacy_SI_Data</a> and update <a href="http://techwiki.cuip.net/HowTo_Get_Student_Data_from_Legacy_SI">http://techwiki.cuip.net/HowTo_Get_Student_Data_from_Legacy_SI</a> with notes about not relying on floppy diskette.”

– Still a to-do.  Also this week there was Yet Another email I ean towikify if I can remember what it was!
<ul>
	<li>“Carried forward: Doing something with the extra NSIT machines we held back — especially after whinging so much about needing a computer work table!”
– I haven’t dealt with these, but Russ and Christie have in various ways.</li>
	<li>“Carried forward or abandoned: Read xeroxed OLPC article.”
– Still carried forward.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h2>
<ul>
	<li>New recurring task: School lab check ups, to be done regularly, maybe by NSP or CUIP staffer, as it works out that week.  On the list currently:
<ul>
	<li>Wadsworth 221</li>
	<li>Till 206</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Followup with Till engineers:
-- Someone should continue helping Mr. Blaze learn his way around the computer, and check his CPS email.
-- Possibly the computer should be joined to INSTR, if they don't object to needng to sign on.</li>
	<li>Sexton: besides finishing the NSIT instalatons:
-- Haul away the no-drive NSIT machine, whichis now also sans memory
-- Check the existing classroom computers which already have wireless cards but may not be working.  (Ms. Khan's is in this situation.)
-- Check some classroom computers which do not have wireless but could have one of those spare Linksys added in.  (Starting with 302?, the room I mistakenly started to give the NSIT meant for 305.)  (Hey, if Ms. Hudson doesn't want one, we could give that NSIT to this guy after all!)</li>
</ul>
<h2>This week's activity not at or for a specific school</h2>
<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>
<ul>
	<li>On Reporting Blog, revised the template page for Staff Reports. (To look like this report, essentially.)</li>
	<li>NSP placements.  (One of which had to be retracted :-( )</li>
	<li>"Save Our Science" person visited our Monday staff meeting.</li>
</ul>
<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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<h2>This week's activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3>Canter</h3>
Monday for 1:20 with Sara, Russ, Chelsey

NSP Intro for Chelsey to see the school.  Both Dr. Epps and Ms. Ahad were tied up, but we did get to confer with Ms. Milton and see some of  the school's infrastructure.

(Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour!  England hath need of thee,  She is a fen ...!)  (that is stuck in my head only because it was the example of a spondee on someone's list of examples for various feet or meters.  THIS is the FORest primEval, the MURmuring PINES and the HEMlocks..  That one of course should be listed under Wadsworth!)
<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>
Wednesday for 1:15 w/ Duel, Michael, Shaz, Erik, Russ

Met with new principal Dr. Edwards, very briefly. Met with Steve Guarnieri for an hour or so, touching on all the issues we wanted to raise.  The transition to new principal provded the occasion for taking a review, but in the result not a lotof changes. See Erik's report for some substantive plans we worked out.
<h3>Murray</h3>
Tuesday 1/30 for 0:45

Joe and I looked at the problem he was having with getting the Engineer's office new computer to join INSTR or run the rest of the remediation steps. The problem turned out to stem from a wireless AP/router which they were using to connect their laptops (the new desktop was plugged into one of the WAP's available ethernet ports), and which was set up to do its own DHCP.   (There is only one network ether port at that location.)  When we took the WAP/router outof the picture and plugged the desktop directly into the CPS network port, everything was fine. If they want to use that WAP for their laptops, they will need to either put in a small hub/switch, or reset the WAP to be transparent about DHCP.

Thursday 2/1 for 0:30 (planned) w/ Erik, Sara, Melissa

NSP Intro.

(This is for later today)
<h3>Ray</h3>
Experimented with domains.
<h3>Sexton</h3>
Wednesday 1/31 w/ Sara &amp; Christie for 2:30

I worked with Ms Hudson to install the Lexmark printer for the office clerk's computer.

We installed two of the NSIT machines (Ms. Ludlow's and Ms. Khan's rooms.)  Sara had some very productive project/curriculum ralks with Ludlow.  We didn't have enough kbds and mice, so Christie ran a mission of mercy :).
<h3>Till</h3>
Tuesday 1/30 for ~~3:00, with Jimmy, Wednesday 1/31 for 2:00, total approx 5:00
<ul>
	<li>Saw Sudduth in her lab in north bldg. We discussed server drive status and backups, and looked at a peculiarity wth the Reading Counts installation.</li>
	<li>She showed me (reminded me) <a href="http://www.raz-kids.com/">http://www.raz-kids.com/</a> , a fee-based but not exorbitant reading practice site that regards as particularly good.</li>
	<li> Linda is expecting a Tech Visit (we're trying not to say inspection)
from the Impact team around Feb. 8 (or another Thursday in February).    Maybe we should be on hand, or poised to come in the next day and address  issues that they have pointed out</li>
	<li> They had some sort of visit yesterday from OTS or a contractor.  This
is reported different ways depending on who you talk to.  But a lot of the
compliance issues were fixed</li>
	<li>Checked-in with Thurman.  Engineer Warren Williams (who was meeting with her) asked me to look at the slowness of the computer in the Engineers' office.</li>
	<li>Checked-in with Jimmy and Ms. Gaal at the Library.  He has moved on from the Dells to the Compaqs there.  We used the jumper method to clear a power-on password.</li>
	<li>Brady's problem machine was taken care of by that group from OTS or contractor.</li>
	<li>Brady has some students who have been doing cartooning, with her as  well as with Waggoner.  She is looking for a way to put them in touch with a real-life cartoonist.  She was talking in terms of a field trip, but probably an e-interview or something like that would also work.  Any ideas?</li>
	<li>Tuesday end of day I went to the Engineers' office, noted that the computer was Windows 98. I suggested the best approach to improving would be to install 2000.  He confirmed there were no documents or specially installed programs, so I started a CPS-W2K installation.  I left before the full setup was done.</li>
	<li>Came back Wednesday morning.  Mr. Williams had completed the setup, with an automatic login rather than "each user must login".  That's more convenient for them, but I'm not sure if joining a domain will take that away.</li>
	<li>I adjusted the screen resolution, installed Office, updated IE to version 6, and ran 4 of the 5 remediation wizards (skipping INSTR).</li>
	<li>Worked with the other engineer, Ken Blaze.  He does some official work online at CPS sites, but is not really comfortable wth many aspects of computer operation.  We made some desktop shortcuts for IE to go directly to the CPS Oracle sites, and set his CPS email password -- but it hadn't taken hold yet when I was leaving.</li>
	<li> Followup with engineers:
-- Someone should continue helping Mr. Blaze learn his way around the computer, and check his CPS email.
-- Possibly the computer should be joined to INSTR, if they don't object to needng to sign on.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Wadsworth</h3>
Monday 1/29  two visits 1:00 + 4:30
<ul>
	<li>Installed the client program for Harcourt Reading on the two computers in Ms Coffey's room (225).  Straightforward except that generic student INSTR login was not allowed on one of them for "could not create profile" message; ask me if you need details of this problem/response.</li>
	<li>Revisited 221. Installed Harcourt on a couple random stations, went okay. Finally got display adapter working on the one we re-installed W2K.  The drivers from the Acer Resource CD were no help, nor wasthe Acer web site; finally it was the Intel web site that provided the right ones.</li>
	<li>Interesting discussion with the person from Progressive Learning.  Will meet with her 3:00 tomorrow about installation.</li>
</ul>
Tuesday 1/30 for 1:20
<ul>
	<li>Met with PL person again, verified the computer requirements for PL site, and discussed the student login / password system.</li>
	<li>Not sure what their relation is to Compass Learning ... that may be in some sense the <em>platform</em> onwhich PL developes the content.  Anyway, the system-check is at <a href="http://compasslearningodyssey.com/systemrequirements.html">http://compasslearningodyssey.com/systemrequirements.html</a> and the place the students go to is <a href="http://progressivelearning.com/">http://progressivelearning.com/</a> .  The latter is the one they want a desktop shortcut for.</li>
	<li>Helped students in afterschool with lab logins.  this was calmer than the Science Fair prep sessions we had been in, on previous days.</li>
</ul>
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