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

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/03/06 [Weeks 8/9]

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

<strong>Total hours for week: 4 (week 8 - 4, week 7 - 3)</strong>

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

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

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>When I got in on Thursday of Week 7, the new computers had arrived (I was very excited).  I was able to do one format so I could see how it worked, but it took a very long time (and the second I tried turned out to be the computer which is now non-functioning), so I only got one done.  I put all my hours into one big chunk Thursday of Week 8, and while I had to stay a little later, I was able to get all but one done, which had a bad DVD drive.  Yesterday I swapped out the bad dvd drive with the good one from the bad computer (which probably has hdd issues), and it worked great, so now all but one of the new computers that arrived at Fiske are formatted and working... they just need hard drives.  I've been spending this afternoon helping teachers with some installations of software.

On a side note, apparently the other computers that Mr. Miller had asked CPS for at the beginning of the year started showing up today.  I'm not sure exactly what they look like, but I know that 50 computers came today, and even more were supposed to show up next week but he's going to cancel them since we actually have plenty now.  This is great news for the school, as it means we can also get semi-new computers in the 200s lab (from what I've heard, they're not as nice as the computers NSP brought, but they are P4 dells) and then start to actually give computers to the primary level teachers, who currently only each have one (some don't have one at all).

I'm going try try to wrap things up here at Fiske next week.  It's unfortunate that I couldn't  be here now, as there is actually a TON to do, but I think I need to remove myself before I get too caught up in the implementation of these computers.  From what I can see, these things need to happen:

-Fiske needs a plan for exactly where all the computers are going to go (how many in each lab, how many for each teacher)

-We need to buy keyboards/mice (someone needs to bug Mr. Miller about this until they get here, because I'm worried it might take until the end of the year to even get this stuff if we don't start now)

-We need to set up the computer labs.  I think it might fall upon the NSPers to organize this one, as it's going to be a lot of work.  You're going to need lots more ethernet cords, as well, but I think there's a lot that can be done here once we get to that point.