
<h1>Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/02/24</h1>
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<h1>(UofC week 9 of Winter Quarter)</h1>
<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>
(Thursday March 01 all-day trip to IL-TCE)

Fiske: Mon 1:00, Fri 1:00, total 2:00                                                                 
Ray: Tues 3:00                                                                                       
Sexton: Tues 1:30, Fri 0:20, total 1:50                                                              
Till: Wed. 4:00                                                                                      
Woodson: Wed. 1:00 Fri. 0:45, total 1:45

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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>
<ul>
	<li>URGENT … Check Ray webserver!  Scheduled for Tues 2/27
<ul>
	<li>Done.  All was okay.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li> DNS settings update for office computers. Check with Christie &amp; Julia, also CWD and Walrus servers.
<ul>
	<li>Shaz and Christie desktops okay, Walrus and CWD servers changed okay.  What's left?  Julia's desktop...</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Sexton NSIT machines: Last step, remove rotting hulk of #6 from 322. Last week : Not removed yet.
<ul>
	<li>This week: rethinking; maybe we should leave it, use for parts.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li> Sexton laptops.  Last week: No progess.
<ul>
	<li>Probably Louisa will handle these.  Sara and Louisa will check with Mr. Smith.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li> Retrieve unneeded sound cards from Till Primary Library .  Last week: "Not done;Hand this off to either of the NSPs" .
<ul>
	<li>This week: I happened to stop by on a day Inez was there, and remembered to ask for these. So this is Done.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li> WP standalones, upgrade to 2.1.  Last week: "Deferred again. Now get 2.1.1" .
<ul>
	<li>Deferred again.  Just as well, since WP declared 2.1.1 "dangerous". </li>
	<li>Now get 2.1.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li> Till engineers office computer (toINSTR?), and P.D. for Mr. Blaze.
<ul>
	<li>Did not put it on INSTR; mentioned to Sudduth, who also doesn't mind.</li>
	<li>With Christie, went thru a few more steps with Mr. Blaze.  (He is a beginner.)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>“Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS” or other CMS.  Last week: –Still deferred.
<ul>
	<li>No action this week</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Carried forward: Install NetCenter drive access programs on remasining staff desktops.
<ul>
	<li>Brought in my own copy of the CD (the office copy is misplaced)</li>
	<li>Worked fine on Christie's office XP, in a different room</li>
	<li>Did not work on Sara's [in same room] or Shaz's [different room].  I would guess it has something to do with crossing to another switch, except that it works okay for Christie's office. </li>
	<li>Don't bother further.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups in CUIP lab, using WD NetCenter Drive
<ul>
	<li>Brought in my own copy of the CD (the office copy is misplaced)</li>
	<li>Did not install.  Try again next week.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Carried forward: Techwiki entries for
<ul>
	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part I, how to get from SI to file: this entry exsts, add note about not trusting floppies, use thumbdrive or direct upload to server</li>
	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part II, what to do with the file — stub only in place, take from email sent to Bryan</li>
	<li>Power-on passwords and Setup Admin Passwords: take from email with Jimmy and Linda Sudduth</li>
	<li>Added to this to-do list: the CPSWIRELESS notes</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Find out (casually) what the OTS stand is on personal laptops brought into the school and put on the network.  Do they have to be given full remediation treatment?  Is it any different in the case of wireless?</li>
	<li>Exercise the option to request quasi-INSTR delegation at a target school, probably Fermi. </li>
</ul>
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<h2>This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>
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<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Prepared notes on CUIP tech requests for Shaz / Don meeting with McPhearson.  Some pretty good results came back, subject to their state of being over-extended with IMPACT.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Went to IL-TCE (the ICE conference at Pheasant Run)</li>
	<li>Craig's <em>Second Life</em> proposal.  CUIP will have a role with ELVEN, but not much if any involvement for the in-the-schools functions in CUIP or for the schools directly.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>eCUIP</h3>
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<h3>Chicago Web Docent</h3>
<ul>
	<li>CWD Server: Problem with the partition on external USB drive where the "direct backups" were going.  I tried ckfs repeatedly, eventually moved onto a different partition. 
<ul>
	<li>Check next week!</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>
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<h3>CUIP Servers</h3>
<ul>
	<li>See CWD note.</li>
	<li>I did a quick-and-dirty update of the Webalizer stats on the WIT server.  Let's get a good NSP to address a general overhaul of that. </li>
</ul>
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<h2>This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3>Fiske</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Fiske-srv01 stopped exporting its shares.  This disables the Follett system that the librarian uses.  At various times Erik, Peter, and I all did a reboot, which cleared up the problem for the time being.  But then the problem develops again.</li>
	<li>On Friday I changed a few settings.  A pre-INSTR version of individual student home folders used a share for each folder, so there were a couple hundred of those.  I stopped sharing those outdated folders, in case the problems had to do with overstressing the "Server Service".  But it was doing okay with those conditions before, why would a problem develop just now.</li>
	<li>If the problem recurs next week, we will look into moving Follett onto Fiske-srv02, the newer / bigger / faster server.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Did a special backup of the web server, preliminary to testing whether it would reboot successfully.</li>
	<li>The reboot test went fine.</li>
	<li>Consulted with Mary about whether she can advise us on summer P.D. offerings.</li>
	<li>Bryan returned to the lab just as I was leaving.  He had been working on the Conversations blog with Mr Jiminez and class.  It's good to see Bryan getting into the  Projects side of things.</li>
	<li>I checked in with Ms Sheridan.  Apparently I had just missed Dawei, who delivered some files for the web site redesign.  I pulled them into her Dreamweaver site local files, and uploaded them into the test area online.</li>
	<li>Our group meeting is Friday 3/09 at 4:00 PM.  Prior to that, I will check with Dawei about some Template issues that are on my mind, based on the files and on passages in his report I don't follow exactly.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Sexton</h3>
<ul>
	<li>The NSIT in 204 turned out to have a boot-up-reliability problem, not a bad monitor or video adapter card.</li>
	<li>Sara and I worked with a teacher who had brought in her laptop but had incorrect instructions for getting it onto CPS wireless.</li>
	<li>When I stopped in on Friday, Louisa was doing fine in the lab, had plans for working on the laptops and also some general teacher help.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Till</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Christie and I met with Ms. Thurman.  Nothing much new and different. She thinks it would be a good idea to resume the goal of regular check-ups of room 206.</li>
	<li>Ken Blaze (school engineer) asked for some help getting to his CPS email and online forms for managing the physical plant. </li>
	<li>I checked in with Inez Jacobson in the primary library.  Took back the 4 extra sound cards.  She was considering upgrading from the old Athena system to Follett Destiny; but I passed along the advice from Paul Whitsitt and Christie to sit tight for a while in case CPS-wide Library Automation does get approved.  (Inez clued me in to how the CPS Libraries Department has separate funding sources, which makes them a separate power center of sorts.)</li>
	<li>Then I checked in with Sudduth upstairs, and as it happens Z was meeting with her.  I reminded her that both Jimmy and Erin are available and well-qualified if she needs work done on her lab computers or in the classrooms.  I said I would return the following week to see if I can come up with useful improvements in how to install Reading Counts for it to work with multiple student individual logins at the computers.  She received the computer names for 206, to make a grouping on her Deep Freeze console, but not yet for 204; Z said he will jot those down or ask Jimmy to do so, and will get them to her.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodson</h3>
<ul>
	<li>With Christie, I went on Wednesday, met briefly with Mr. Spearman and Dr. Arnall, mostly concerning the latter's requests for classroom computer management tools.  Some of those (not all!) can be handled through Group Policy; but the school's domain is currently at NT4 and this stuff would be easier in a Server 2000 or Server 2003 Domain.  Larry says we might be able to upgrade the school's current PDC machine (and make an OU structure to pick out Arnall's students and computers); or else he could supply a separate box and we could use that on its own domain for Dr Arnall's room alone.</li>
	<li>We also met briefly with Dr. Arnall; let him know we don't see 100% of his plans working out, but we can work on some of it; and for quizzes we recommended Quia.</li>
	<li>Friday I came by to test, with Mr Spearman, whether the existing computer could upgrade to Server 2003.  The compatability-check program found only minor problems, except a lack of free space on C: drive.   There is plenty of free space on E: drive; we will try to use that, though we want an upgrade rather than a clean install, since we want to preserve the users.  This will be on Tuesday March 06.</li>
</ul>