<strong>Your Name: Tiffany Moran</strong><strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2009/11/10. [Week reporting about: 2009/11/02]

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

<strong>Total hours for week: 4.8</strong>

<strong>The School:
Sexton Elementary</strong>

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

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>I will be reporting on the end of week one and all of week two. On wednesday of week one, Sara and I finished installing the wireless cards into the new computers for Ms. Ludlow. We installed the cards and connected them to the network. We tried to connect to the network and install the new hardware using the linksys cd and following their guide, however this was not working and we were unable to connect to the network, so we tried doing it by following the automatic windows guide for installing the new hardware and this worked right away. So we did the same with the other computer. We also installed the CPS utilities found on the sexton adm website on both computers. On Friday, I connected these same computers to the printer in the room. I was able to connect the first computer and then I tried to set up the share printer for the other one, I was not able to do it because I did not know that I needed specific notation for typing in the computer and share name (\computer nameshare name). After I gave up trying to share the printer I visited the website Ms. Ludlow is planning on using with her students to create a website for the school. It is called Weebly and it is a simple drag and drop setup to make websites. I believe we will begin working on this Friday of third week.

I was sick on Monday of the second week so I did not go to work. Sara set up the share printer for Ms. Ludlow when she went to the school, I think on Tuesday. On Wednesday I visited Ms. Khan to see if she had set up her clicker software. She is using a Convey Interactive Classrooms software in which the students can respond to questions using clickers. She needed to install software for the Convey Interactive Classrooms, as well as software for a different program called Easiteach which is also an interactive classroom program with lesson plans. She also had an airslate which is an interactive writing tablet that also needed software installation. She said she had been able to install these programs except for the Convey, but that when she tried to use them she couldn't because they weren't even there. I realized that she had not thawed the computer so I told her that it might have been deep freeze and she said that she thought that she was logged in as an administrator then deep freeze did not work. But even as an administrator the little polar bear icon was still there. So I disabled deepfreeze and thawed the computer for the next 5 reboots and installed the software. This worked and the software remained intact after the computer was restarted. I was able to install the airslate and the easiteach so that they were ready for use. However, the Convey installation cd was not working, the installation was to be done online but the link was I guess outdated since they had just recently changed their name and domains. So on Friday Sara, Ms. Khan and I were able to install the Convey software by calling the Convey tech support and they gave us the link for installation. This took quite a bit of time and required the installation of some windows software that I cannot remember the name of but it took a bit of time to install, but finally right before we had to leave the building the Convey software was installed! Now Ms. Khan can have her students use the clickers for classroom activities. Sara also showed me how to set up the share printer on Friday because there was another teacher who wanted to print from both computers. I will finish setting that up because the Windows 2000 computer may have needed some updates first.