<strong>Your Name: Jonathan Coppage
</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2006/10/29

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

<strong>Total hours for week: 2+3=5
</strong>

<strong>The School: Irvin W. Mollison
</strong>

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

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

On Tuesday, Russ and I met with the 3 reading teachers who will be in charge of the computer lab, since they're full-time technology teacher had to be cut on account of budget cuts last year. A focus of interest seems to be on getting accessible and easy to use web activities for students to do in the computer lab, as well as getting the computers to be able to print to the common printers in the room, rather than only having the 2 computers directly linked to the computer able to print. Russ also brought up getting the smart board to work (need to find the projector) and setting up the Mollison website. The standard policy has been for the computers to be turned off and logged off after every class use, and we set the computers to have a screen saver and turned off power options that shut the monitors down or put into standby to address the concerns of one teacher in particular.
<strong>Printing</strong>:

Getting the computers in the computer lab to print to the 2 printers hooked has been a primary focus. I discovered at the end of the day on Tuesday how to get the computers shared temporarily (the printer-computers needed techco log-in) but whenever the receiving computers would log out, they would lose the info. On Friday I set Everyone to have Manage Printers permissions so that the printer-computers could share out while logged in as Student, and figured out that we needed to change the standard student profile for Mollison student to allow printing. As Mitch sent me what should the passwords to get into the servers, I should be able to get all the computers in the lab printing by early Tuesday morning.

<strong>Out of Service Computers</strong>:

There are several computers in the lab at Mollison that are currently not working, including, I believe, all the Dells. Several of the computers (Dells along the right hand wall) have some issue with the server, concluding the error message saying that some title was too long. Now that we have server passwords I'll be able to take a look at those on Tuesday.

Another computer has a blue screen about an "inaccessible boot device", which Russ said was probably a hardward problem, and that we would bring some tools by.

One other has a permanent error message in a black screen, saying: "NTLDR is missing/Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart". A microsoft support page instructs to contact Microsoft Product Support services to obtain the Bcupdate2 utility. I'll try and make contact with them on Tuesday.

Finally, computer 21 does not boot up, for some reason. I believe I checkout all the wires and switches, but will try again on Tuesday to be safe.

<strong>Other</strong>:

On Friday I helped Ms. Dean manage her class in the computer lab for the time they were in there. It looks like getting the website able to post links will be able to greatly help out the classes, as it was delayed by ten minutes trying to navigate through a series of links to get to the desired webpage.

On that note, as I was leaving, I was approached by a Michael Browzney (sp? i didn't catch his name completely) in room 209. He immediately brought up the grant money that Mollison has for getting the website up and running and the requirement that students be an integral part of that process. I told him that the website was definitely a priority, and that I would pass his comments on to Russ so that we can jumpstart the website program.

Also, I've been told the smartboard projector may be in the locked closet, so I'll get the keys to that on Tuesday and check it out.