Name: Ariel Hafftka

Date: Dec 15, 2006
Day(s) worked or described: Usually Tuesdays & Thursdays, Oct 6 through Nov 28
Total hours for week: 5
The School: Entrepreneurship, at South Shore
Kind of Work: Tech general / Project

In the last two months my work consisted of helping Erik Treese with computer maintenance, creating computer inventories, and helping teachers with projects.  I  helped fix computers, printers and internet connections; helped create an inventory of Mac hardware/software for an Apple pilot project and check if computers worked; and I helped Ms. Shusma with an iMovie project.

In terms of general computer maintenance, I helped Erik fix various Macs and PCs, fix Internet connections, set up printers to work with various computers, and, generally, trouble shoot computers.  I also helped maintain Macs and PCs by running software updates, cleaning up desktops, and fixing privileges and preferences.    On Nov 21, Erik and I put a different printer in the library and I set up the driver on the Macs there.  On Nov 28 I tried unsuccessfully to fix Dr. Nelda Jones computer in the first floor; the computer does not boot and needs to be fixed.

There are three computer inventories I helped with.  First, I worked with Jamela (a student) on Oct 17 to help Erik create a hardware/software inventory of Macs at Entrepreneurship for a pilot program run by Apple.  Second, I worked again with Jamela to check whether the approximately 16 white eMacs in the server room work; it turns out all these computers work.  Third, I checked out the 4 Dell computers and 4 dell monitors in the safe-room, in the main office.  All these monitors work and 3 of the computers work; one computer needs repair.

I helped Ms. Shusma with a project in which students create movies in iMovie.  Specifically, I showed her how to record audio voice-over tracks and dynamically adjust the volume of those tracks.  I also helped her adjust the privileges on the computers in her classroom to allow her to adjust some audio input preferences, showed her which video formats are possible to import into iMovie from the web, and helped her read a DVD that was not mounting.

I look forward to being back to work Jan 4.  Enjoy the holiday season.