Week 5 at Fermi was exceptionally productive thanks to Mitch, Sara, and Tyler teaming up to help me go throught the excessive and daunting array of keyboards, monitors, CPUs, printers, and other such paraphanelia.  Mitch, Sara and Tyler worked on going through the sum 70 pieces of equipment, testing them, and deeming them either useful or not.  We now have more than enough material for an asset disposal.  Sara will be informing Dr. Sanders that she should put in a request for that so that we can free up some space in the computer lab.

While they were having fun doing that, I took care of the teachers so that we were able to both clean house and fix problems.  The day started with me installing 4 programs for Mr. Hinton on his computer for test and lesson plan creation.  There was a bit of a problem with the Math Thematics program and administrator privelages, but we were able to handle it.  Everything seems to be going well with those.  I will be checking back next week in order to make sure they are still working swimmingly.  I will also be networking one of the student computers with the printer in that room.

As I had hoped, many of the problems with Ms. Sokal's were resolved by the CPS updates.  Both student computers are now accessible through the school username and password.  In addition, she recieved her CPS password and can now log on to the teacher computer in that room.  She wanted to change her password, so Sara and Mitch both told me how she should go about that.  I relayed that info to her and she changed her password successfully.  She also was having problems with her computer locking too frequently, so I disabled the locking function on her computer.  She requested a printer, so that will be my main concern next week.

I installed Microsoft Office on a computer in Ms. Buris Gaines' room, so now all have word.  I also gave her a tutorial on where to install flash drives on her teacher computer. 

Something that just made my day was Mr. Gaines informing me that the difference in his computer's speed was astonishingly faster than last week.  This was due to my ram installation upgrade and a few cleaning functions I ran.  This was great to hear, and Mr. Gaines was thrilled.  We've been able to start off on a good note with the two newest teachers Mr. Gaines and Ms. Sokal.  Hopefully this will lead to continued and expanded technology use in their classrooms.

Happy Halloween to all.