<strong>Your Name: Jonathan Coppage
</strong>

<strong>Today's Date:</strong> 2006/11/13

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T Th F
<strong>Total hours for week: 8.5
</strong>

<strong>The School: Mollison
</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> General Tech, Teacher Assistance

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

This report is for the past week as well as the week previous, as that weeks report was forgotten.

Last tuesday at Mollison, Mitch stopped by to help get into the "servers" in the Mollison computer lab so that we could edit the profiles and get the whole lab printing. As it so happened, the normal way of getting changing the .man profile file to .dat and back didn't work for whatever reason, so Mitch quickly put together a couple of scripts to use to add the printers automatically, with computers printing to the computer on their side of the room. Russ then showed up and got a couple of the non-working Dells up and running, and switched a dysfunctional hard drive to a dysfunctional computer to maximize availability.

I missed the following Friday on account of a rogue honors calc problem set.

The following Tuesday I came in and spent most of the time getting the smarboard up and running, digging up the cables and software and installing the programs and drivers. Unfortunately, the projector in the closet of the computer lab has a burned out bulb, so I will discuss with Ms. Dean whether to invest in a new bulb. However, i have heard mention of another projector in the school, so i will try to track that down on Monday. I also checked on Ms. Gnall in room 108 who was having printer problems on account of a restless child playing with connection cords. It turned out that the cord was just not going in all the way, so after wiggling it in, it worked fine. She did mention, however, that one of her computers that she uses was so slow that the children were getting too impatient to use it for the assignments, especially in an afterschool program, not suprising, given that it was a Pentium I with 64 megabytes of RAM. Towards the end of the day i was shown a room full of extra computers and monitors (attached) needing to be sorted through to discover which were broken and which were salvageable, and I planned to make that Fridays priority.

Friday, however, was a day turned upside down. I walked in to discover that Nike had adopted Mollison! I was quickly given a Nike shirt and told that everyone was in the auditorium for the presentation (including quite a few politicians) and that Nike volunteers had been in the school all morning working. I went to the room with the computers to get started, and lo and behold, Nike had seemingly done everything that I was set to accomplish for the day. I am waiting on the report from Nike on what they got done and what computers are functional and such before I take further action on that room, so as to not repeat or mess up anything already done. I tried to go to the computer lab to work, however the keys to the lab were not at the front desk, and whoever would have had them was in the assembly, as were all the teachers who I could talk to about issues in computing or programs they are interested in. So I was a bit in vertigo for the couple hours I was there, eventually finding a cache of assorted items that was as yet untested by Nike, so I made some headway into that before the day was out.

On Tuesday I hope to finish the room of computers, complete the SMART board preparation, and make rounds to the teachers who listed issues on the list that Russ gave to me last tuesday. Now that there will be another CUIPer at Mollison to work on projects and such things, the SMART board should come in especially handy. I will confer with her as well as to how to best coordinate our areas of focus.