Hi, Chris, thanks for the interesting report.  It's exciting to picture the first graders doing their powerpoint!  Sounds like there could be a schoolwide Tech Fair in the spring.

Russ and I noticed yesterday, just browsing around, the progress on the Howell blog. Good work! The school general blog, listed as belonging to the principal, is so far managed by Terry, though Dr. Kennedy has to some extent expressed interest.  You can check with Terry on whether his plans would include setting you up for some one-to-one assist/advise time with Dr. Kennedy.

Is it Mrs Howell's classroom computer you were cleaning up? CPS has a particular mandated antivirus program, so we're not supposed to install any other. You can see if that one is installed and thinks it's up-to-date by looking in the system tray area for a medium-dark-blue circular icon with a waveform design on it -- right-click to get info or have it update.  If it seems to be missing, get Terry or Nate [or Russ or me] to show you a couple things about "remediation".  

There is not, OTOH, a mandated anti-spy/anti-ad program, so it's fine to choose your favorite (such as Ad-Aware or as you suggest Spybot S&D) and run a cleanup.  Many CPS school computers need that treatment badly!  Nice initiative on that and the general disk cleanup.