Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko

Today’s Date: 2009/05/08

Day(s) worked or described: M, W, F

Total hours for week: 5.75

The School: Woodlawn Community School

Kind of Work: Tech general, TechKnow

Main Report or Narrative:

I actually can't remember very well what I did on Monday; that probably means I moved computers or something.  I know I logged in computers in the lab and made sure that the Firefox homepage was the Tech Center homepage (because I and other students had sometimes clicked on the "firefox start page" when we started Firefox for the first time).  I was also going to show some sixth graders how to use the scanner, but I didn't end up having quite enough time.   I may have finished inventorying the computers, actually--there are a lot of pretty slow computers in our school that actually don't work all that poorly!

On Wednesday I came in for TechKnow; the students put the demonstration computer back together and started taking apart their computers.  Happily, this year's model don't appear to ribbon cables that are as flimsy as the computers we worked with last year.

Today (Friday), I looked at printers in the lab that were doing bad things.  I restarted the network printer, which seemed to have gone off-line.  Ms. Johnson is worried that the network card in the printer has gone bad; we have some other printers that aren't using their network cards and I may try swapping them.  Alternatively, I may end up sharing out the printer.  Ms. Johnson thought that the color laser printer in the lab was doing something wrong, too, but it seemed to me that it was being just about as slow and poorly designed as it always is--except it has a remanufactured yellow cartridge in it that's gotten yellow toner all over the inside of the printer and made a nice streak on the drum...  I also talked to Ms. Johson in the library, who said that the administrator account I attempted to set up for her was not allowing her to install programs; I don't know why that is, but if someone has a chance to take a look when they're at Woodlawn, I'm sure she'd appreciate it. 

I also re-shared out the printer in the library; I know I shared it out a week or two ago, but it seems as if they all lost the shared printer.  Does W2K store shared printers separately for each user (so, for example, if I shared it with Techco it's not available in Primary)?