<strong>Your Name: Joe King</strong><strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/11/20 [Week 8]

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M T Θ

<strong>Total hours for week: 6
</strong>

<strong>The School:
</strong><em>Fiske</em>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Tech for Project, Project Prep, Helping Teacher

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>For the first week in a while I was actually able to work all three days (seems school has been closed all the time lately...).  Monday I met Jenna, our new NSP at Fiske, but there wasn't much going on (Mr. Miller was out), so I left after an hour.  I ended up putting in an extra hour on Tuesday, though, as Mr. Miller had a lot to do.  We got rid of all the keyboards and mice in the 302 Computer Lab so that a class could use it for presentation space with a projector (a shiny new one!), and got everything looking a little nicer.  Additionally, I did a lot of general tech work with the teachers--the principal was having a print issue (which a restart fixed--there was a backlog in printing that wouldn't clear properly), and the teacher in 307 wanted to move some computers into the room and get them set up with printing and internet.  This ended up getting finished today, as I needed a switch which Mitch brought over for me (thanks!) since for some reason three of the ethernet jacks on the wall weren't working.  Long story short, it's all set up and working now.

Finally, the school now has 60 Palm T|Xs, along with those little wireless fold up keyboards, but there was a problem getting some of them to connect.  I looked at it this afternoon--turns out some of the palms weren't receiving beams (even though it was enabled in the power settings), but it was fixed with a simple soft reset of the device! (I love it when that works)  Took a little while to figure out how to reset it (button on the back), but now we have 60 mobile typing stations for students to use which will all have internet once we get wireless set up... or should I say if we get wireless.  They're all brand new, too, which is very exciting.  Looks like Fiske might be on track to fulfilling its "tech academy" status... well, if we ever get these new computers.

As for the aforementioned computers, we're still waiting... Mr. Miller is trying to get in contact with them, but he's assuming it's going to take a while.