Your Name: Erin

Today’s Date: 2007/02/04

Day(s) worked or described: M W

Total hours for week: 5

The School: Till

Kind of Work: Project Execution, Tech General

Main Report or Narrative: It seems like something strange has been going on with the library computers since last quarter-- they seem to be missing various plugins and extensions that I'm fairly sure were working a few months ago. So this week was spent getting them up to speed with Firefox extensions, Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, and Safari Montage. 

The student computer second the wall is not recognizing the techco login for some reason-- I mentioned it to Jimmy and he said he'd get around to it next week. 

Wednesday's afterschool was very low-key because most of the students were out on a field trip. They responded to questions about their communities and vocabulary on the Wright 3 blog. Firefox 2.0 is working really well for the students. They pay attention to the spell checker and are very concerned about getting all of their words right. One caveat to this is that names of people and places are not usually in the spell checker's dictionary, and students tend to get frustrated or confused when there's an underline beneath a word that they want to use. Does anyone know offhand where the spell checker for Firefox ultimately derives from? Is it a local file that I can preemptively update with words I expect students to use? 