Ariel Marcus
2-16-2007
Tuesday, Thursday, 6 hours total
School of Leadership
General Tech

My first day at Leadership was a somewhat rocky start. I did not know what to expect at all in terms of the state of the computers that we would be re-mediating so that they could be put in classrooms. Russ, however, had been under the impression that they would all be functioning and need only a tuneup to be ready for classroom use. It turns out that the computer were in worse condition than he expected. We spent most of the first day going through them one by one trying to find one that would load normally. This did not happen until the last computer, so I did not fully learn how to re-mediate the computers until Thursday. The second day was really good. We started an inventory of the computers with their important numbers and condition. I also learned exactly what needed to be done to prepare the computers for classroom use. We started to label the computers so that it would be easy to tell which ones needed which type of repair, if any. Some of the computers have had someone edit the registry pretty throughly, ridding them of Control Panel and restricting some other functions. Russ actually mentioned that we might be able to use image disks that would essentially replace all of the information on the computer so that it would be in the same state as it was when it was first readied for classroom use by CPS. He mentioned that Mitch might have these disks. If possible, I think that might make more computers usable. Also, Russ mentioned that if I found a well functioning computer that we might copy its entire hard drive onto all the other computers to solve all of these issues with windows and the registry. Just running the idea by you in case that happens. Besides that, I am looking forward to Tuesday with Mr. Ruffan and really starting to inventory a large portion of the computers in 312.