Name: Allison
Today’s Date: 3/10/07
Days worked or described:FR
Total Hours worked for week: 4 1/2
Kind of work: classroom assistance
Main Report or Narrative:
My only work this week was on friday, working with the english classes and the laptop carts. Ms Constantine was out sick, which proved to be a problem. This was by far the worst experience with the carts I've had yet. When I came in the morning, mr Narrains(sp?) and I couldn't find the carts. We finally got a hold of two, and only later learned that the carts for that class were stored in 121. So, we had different carts, one of which had cd drives and not floppy. Which would not have been a terribly big deal if Ms Constantine had been there, because I could've gotten access to 307, but as it was, I couldn't get a hold of the drives. So, we had to live with some people not being able to save to a floppy, and finding flash drives for them to save stuff on, which proved a bit of a hassle. The other major problem was one of the carts (#3??). Somebody had obviously started moving it the cart while everything was plugged in, so all the plugs were bent and couldn't fit into the wall - the cart power cable, the printer and the dlink for the printer. I spent a good deal of the first period trying to bend the plugs back. I got the power for the cart and the power for the printer to work, but never was able to get the dlink up and running. Which brings me to the other problem - students wanted to print. Since I only had one printer running at a time, cuz of the broken dlink, and students with computers from two laptop carts ... well, yeah, very messy indeed. And there was also no paper in the printer. Lovely. It was a chaotic day with the carts. Somehow I got it so at least her lesson worked out and students got to do what they needed to do.