<strong>Your Name: Dana Lutenegger
</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/04

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> W F (12:30-3:30)

<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>

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

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech General, Project Prep

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

On Wednesday, I initially had difficulty tracking down the disk for Publisher, which needed to be installed on the computers in the Teacher's Resource Room.  It turned out to be in a drawer in Dr. Sanders' office, so I was able to do the installations after that.  For the second half of my time, I looked at three old laptops to make sure that our notes about them were accurate.  They were, but that is not a good thing.  One of them has no operating system, but it probably couldn't handle anything above Windows 95 anyway.  The second has Windows 95 installed, but it is ill-configured in some way, so it crashes upon startup.  Again, it probably couldn't support anything beyond that.  The last computer is most promising.  It is running Windows 98, and it actually works.  The problem is that it can't easily connect to the internet.  I saw that someone had at one point attempted to rig up a complex system to allow it to do so, but a vital piece was missing, so I couldn't test it out.  It might be possible to get Windows 2000 on it, but I wouldn't swear to it.

On Friday, there were no kids around, so all was quiet.  I had the task of installing and networking a printer in the Teacher's Resource Room.  I was able to rig it up so all four working computers in the room can print from the printer, thanks in no small part to Mitch's excellent guide on the CUIP techwiki.  Figuring that all out took up most of my time, but I was able to install Publisher on one more teacher's computer before I left.  I also took another look at Mr. Orekoya's (sp?)  problem with his printer printing too lightly, and I still couldn't figure it out.  The fact that the menus are in some foreign language didn't help.  I know that Emily has been trying to figure it out too, so hopefully we will get it soon.  In the meantime, he might be able to print from the Teacher's Resource Room.

All in all, it was a good week, because the Teacher's Resource Room has Publisher and a printer now, making it ideal for teacher's projects.