<strong>Your Name:</strong> Erwin Carl

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2011/02/27

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

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>6.6/4.8

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong> Monday 2/14, I went to fix some internet and printer problems in Ms. McKinney's room. Her internet setup was through an ethernet hub switch. I troubleshooted the problem by directly connecting the ethernet hub on the wall to the computer.  All of the hubs in the wall seemed to work so the problem was with the hub switch. I could not fix the hub as it was screwed on to the table. I individually connected each computer to an ethernet hub in the wall. The printer problem turned out to be a problem with the machine itself. When I tried to print, it gave me a printer error saying "Paper jam." However, there was no paper jam and opening up the printer, there seemed to be no problem at all. When the printer tried to print, it would not draw in the paper from the paper stack so, I could not fix the printer without damaging it somehow.

Wed 2/16, I had to fix a laptop that was running slowly. I manually uninstalled all the junkware that was installed on the laptop to run it more smoothly. After all the uninstallations it seemed to work but the  32-bit IE would not open. I thought it was an IE problem so I also installed Mozilla Firefox but Firefox too, would not open. I tried troubleshooting it online but the only searches that came up was to reinstall IE. It was very frustrating as it had taken a long time to uninstall all the junk and now browsers would not work. I would try fixing it on Friday.

Fri 2/18, Mr. Miller was working on the laptop trying to fix it. His idea was to do a fresh system restore. I tried fixing it one more time by using Microsoft Fix It, Microsoft's own troubleshooting program. After running it, the program suggested disabling some McAfee plugins which I then did. This fixed the problem and so I disabled the McAfee plugin in Firefox also. The plugin was the root cause for the slow startup of IE and Firefox. I also wrote up a project guideline for the book report project I was going to do with the kids. I would be working with two 2nd graders and two 7th graders to make a video book report.

Mon 2/21 MLK Day so school was closed.

Wed 2/23 Ms. Knox and I went over more specific details of the projects. I met the kids who were going to the projects: 2nd graders were Jalen and Nakya, who was not present,  and the 7th graders were Antonio and Semaj. We were going to work MWF during their transition period as to not interrupt their class time. The project was going to be done in Windows Movie Maker since it was more available than iMovie. I told them to choose a book by Friday so we could possibly start by next Monday.

Fri 2/25 I briefly met the kids to make sure they had chosen a book.Nakya was once again absent so the teacher chose Jamari instead. My goal for them was to be finished with the book by Monday so we could get the actual project started. It seems like the 2nd graders will need more time to finish the book. They all  seemed pretty excited about the project.