<strong>Your Name: Emily Watkins</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/29

[Week or date reporting about, if not most recent week: 2007/10/20-26]

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

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

<strong>The School: Fermi Elementary</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, organization

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>

On Monday, I reported to Fermi and found that the school was basically an infertile, windswept tundra with respect to tech requests. Undaunted by the distressing fact that all of Fermi's computers seemed to be working perfectly, I made up my own project. Shaz and I had talked about someday in the distant future numbering all of the computers in the computer lab, so I seized the day and some construction paper and got to work.

On Wednesday, Fermi was back to normal tech-request-wise (to my extreme relief -- i wasn't sure whether spending my time <strong>re</strong>numbering the computer lab would be an appropriate use of NSP's funds). I helped Ms. Love with her classroom computers -- both were just turned off, and one wasn't connected to a land line. I extracted an unused speaker from the jungle of cables beneath the computer desk and brought it over to Dr. Sima, who had asked if I could find any speakers for him so his kids could use a reading website (Starfox? Starpower? Starburst?). I then helped one of the teachers in 106 install a Winnie the Pooh program on her classroom computers, and messed around with Ms. Alexander's computer (in 120) in an attempt to make it stop randomly turning off. My solution was to turn off the screensaver, which seems to have worked like a charm! Very exciting.

On Friday, Shaz, Sara, Joe, and Mitch all showed up at Fermi of their own accord and we met with Dr. Sanders about her plans for the Media Center we'll be putting together in one corner of the computer lab. She talked about having the stacks of lonely monitors moved out of the computer lab by that afternoon, but as of 9:08am they are still sitting here, staring at me like little lost kittens. My plan for today is thus to mess around with the giant cabinet full of castoff computers, and to maybe clean the whiteboard again. Does anyone have any time-honored home remedies for persisent ghosting and general schmutziness?