Your Name: Ian Andrews
Today’s Date: 2008/2/26
Reporting weeks 7 and 8
Day(s) worked or described: Thursday 2/21 and Tuesday 2/26
Total hours for weeks: 6

The School: Sexton AO
Kind of Work: Tech General
Main Report or Narrative:

My job thus far has consisted mostly of repairing computers in teachers' classrooms that have failed to connect to the network, and occasionally replacing failed hardware.

Last Thursday I was able to repair one of the computers in Ms. Bryant's room, but found that the other one was missing a wireless card. Missing hardware is a bit of a problem here, and occasionally mice and other components disappear. I'm planning on installing a PCI based network interface card from one of the older computers upstairs to avoid this problem provided I can locate the driver CDs and/or download the software. If all goes well, I should have Ms. Khan's and Ms. Bryant's computers on the network again by the end of today.

Computers dropping from the network is also a problem, and this is probably due to the limited number of WAPs, in addition to the fact that all of the computers use 802.11b wireless connections. I noticed in particular that several computers had loose antennae, and some even had all of their connections removed (VGA, USB, power etc.)

My first few weeks here have gone pretty smoothly, although I wasn't entirely prepared for the kids' behavior; since I'm not really a teacher here, I'm not sure whether to be assertive with them when I'm the only one around or let the teachers handle them when they get out of hand.