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<h1>Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/02/10</h1>
<h2> (UofC's winter quarter week 7)</h2><br/>
<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>
(not at work lincoln's birthday holiday monday 02/12)
<ul>
	<li>Fermi 6:00</li>
	<li>Sexton 1:30</li>
	<li>Till 1:00</li>
	<li>Wadsworth 4:00</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>
<ul>
	<li>DNS settings update for office computers. Last week: Did my own desk. INFO: The two new manual DNS addresses are 128.135.247.50 and 128.135.249.50
<ul>
	<li>Planned for this week: Do the other desks or remind others to do their own</li>
	<li>Result: Desktops: Did the four stations in AAC-007.  Shaz has done his own.  Reminded Christie.  Need to check with Julia.</li>
	<li>Servers: Did WITCUIP main, WWW2, and pseudo-INSTR Windows server.  Did not do Walrus or Web docent.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Send deferred email draft introducing Sanjaya and Joe Mills, for desktop  background management technique to be brought over from Ray to MLA.
<ul>
	<li>Done, and they completed the task.  (I was unable to go with them but Erik did.)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Dumas: Get Oadie info about printer scripts.
<ul>
	<li>Emailed some general remarks and links.  Russ discussed it with him in person, turned out not to be immediate relevance for Dumas.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Wadsworth: Finish student logins update with Sharon.
<ul>
	<li>Done!</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Planning for new system of regular check-ups for selected labs
<ul>
	<li>Not being as formalized as we at first set out, but it is being put together in school-appropriate ways.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Reports from that system</li>
	<li>Sexton NSIT machines: Last step, remove rotting hulk of #6 from 322
<ul>
	<li>Result: Not removed yet.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Sexton classroom existing desktops &amp; wireless checkups
<ul>
	<li>We briefed Louisa on what to look for and some things to do.  (Also a sort of checklist for the lab.)  She will be fitting this in along with more project-oriented activities.  Also, Sara and I will get back and do some more of this.</li>
	<li>Good start, we went to Ms. Khan's room and checked the one in the cupboard.  Contrary to our guess, the signal strength was very good!  Sara installed the right wireless adapter driver and utility, and I entered the awful Hexadecimal WEP key, and then it was good to go.  Louisa joined it to the domain, and saw the rest of the procedures.</li>
	<li>To do: Email Louisa (and NSPs at other CPSWIRELESS schools) the WEP key and related notes.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Sexton laptops
<ul>
	<li>No progess</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>WPMU
<ul>
	<li>Arrgh, I broke the installation on WWW2 server!</li>
	<li>Erin is following up on the themes available on WordPress.com and Edublogs.org.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>WP standalones, upgrade to 2.1
<ul>
	<li>Deferred, just once more -- server woes delayed this.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>WP standalones, distribute standardized shared themes and plugins collection
This week:
<ul>
	<li>Reactivated my wordpress.com weblog, so I could see themes list they offer.</li>
	<li>Got an Edublogs installation, for same reason.</li>
	<li>Summarized a comparison for TRAs and EFranz.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Till engineers office computer (toINSTR?), and P.D. for Mr. Blaze
<ul>
	<li>Not done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>“Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS” or other CMS. Last  week: –Still deferred
<ul>
	<li>No action this week</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups in  CUIP lab”
–Last week: “Still a to-do<strong>. BUT do not defer forever the  basic shared-drive setup for Sara and Shaz! Do that sooner!”</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Last week: CDs initially not found in lab. Need to bring copy from home.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Carried forward: Techwiki entries for
<ul>
	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part I, how to get from SI to file: this entry exsts, add note about not trusting floppies, use thumbdrive or direct upload to server</li>
	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part II, what to do with the file -- stub only in place, take from email sent to Bryan</li>
	<li>Power-on passwords and Setup Admin Passwords: take from email with Jimmy and Linda Sudduth</li>
	<li>This week:  :( Techwiki broken!</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li></li>
</ul>
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<h2>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Send CPSWIRELESS notes</li>
	<li>URGENT ... Check Ray webserver!</li>
	<li>Finish deciding between fixup of www2 and replacement
<ul>
	<li>Restore techwiki</li>
	<li>Restore cuipblogs.org WPMU</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Fermi lab (but not Fermilab)</li>
</ul>
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<h2> This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>
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<h3> CUIP Team Building</h3>
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<h3> eCUIP</h3>
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<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>
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<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>
<ul>
	<li>NSIT DNS changes, checking on our computers</li>
	<li>The cleanup of the storeroom earlier this year did succeed in making things look neat and clean.  But when the occasion came up last week and this of needing to get some specific things out, I had a very hard time locating items we needed. The problems are:
<ul>
	<li>Different kinds of item stored together, labelled by only one term</li>
	<li>Overhead shelves</li>
	<li>Heavy boxes (so taking down from shelf to check contents is nontrivial, and contributes to accumulating wear and tear)</li>
	<li>Deteriorating cardboard (exacerbates problems in previous bullet)</li>
	<li>Opaque cardboard boxes (so we are dependent on taking down and opening to determine contents, or on having accurate labelling)</li>
	<li>We do have some transparent  plastic bins, which is good,  but some of them are giant and  thus too heavy for one person to reach down from the shelf</li>
Apart from complaining bitterly about this, I'm trying to help solve it by bringing in some (properly mid-sized) transparent bins, and will bring more; also will look for small step ladders or rolling Library Steps: we could use one for the storeroom itself and another for AAC007 for access to the overhead storage.</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>
<ul>
	<li>  Bad update procedure brought down WWW2 (Blogs2, techwiki, gallery2).  Restoring went okay, but not Apache2 with PHP5, needed for some services.  Still working on that, also using really clean install on another box, to copy content.</li>
</ul>
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<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>
(Plus non-visit info notes)
<h3>Canter</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Phone and email with Preetha (along with Russ).  She handled a special situation in an exemplary way!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Dumas</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Russ conveyed some wireless printing advice to Oadie Carter.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fermi</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Wednesday 2/14 w/ Christie for 2:00, checked lab for readiness for Friday group work.</li>
	<li>Also Christie consulted with Ms Meyers, while I went to see Ms Kelly in 103.  Burnt-out monitor on teacher computer swapped to one of the student computers; it needs replacing.  She has a notebook with notes from last year when Ed Lewis and I left her with a somewhat nonstandard login form, and way of doing printing.  Today I tried to preserve that for her, while still joining INSTR and handling printing slightly differently -- the printer is now plugged into two computers, one by parallel and one by USB!</li>
	<li>Friday 2/16 w/  whole  group for  3:00,  lab  cleanup and  rearrangement.  We got most of it done!</li>
	<li>To-do:  software cleanup, starting  next Tuesday 8:00 AM with Christie and Kathy. Deep Freeze upon cleaning.   Connect fourth row.  Cable tie and related safety &amp; convenience measures.  Demote FERMIDOM.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fiske</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Phone advice with Erik.  He recovered the localized Ghost boot floppies from Kathy's (physical) folders, used it to fix a lab computer.  Erik has passed the technic along to Peter, too.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Murray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>I got immersed in server recovery, missed Sanjaya's demo and implementation with Joe Mills of the desktop background setting script.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>We got reports of some sort of general networking slowdown, plus a room that has lost its network connectivity (see Bryan's report).</li>
	<li><strong>To do, urgent! — Check that the Ray webserver will not have the same problem upon rebooting.   (</strong>I was keeping these two servers on track in parallel, although did not do the custom install of apache2/php5 onRay.)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Sexton</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Friday 2/16 w/ Sara and Louisa, 1:30 (Louisa stayed longer)</li>
	<li>Went through a computer checklist with Louisa in the lab, adapted for that wireless environment.</li>
	<li>Looked at Ms Khan's classroom computer (the one in the cupboard, not the NSIT one we put in last week).  Sara installed the right driver for the wireless adapter, and it then turned out the signal strength was fine.  The management tool that came with the adapter didn't seem to provide a way to enter the WEP key in ASCII, we had to use the Hex equivalent.  To do: send the keys and an explanation to Louisa and other NSPs at wireless schools.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
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<blockquote>In Sexton School did Rana Khan
A lively learning room decree</blockquote>
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</blockquote>
<ul>
	<li> Sara and Mr. Smith [and Louisa] are sorting out what Louisa will be doing.  Besides lab and classroom computer checks she may start with individual teacher P.D. and tech assistance.  As prep for that,  we showed her CPS webmail, and the form teachers can use to set their INSTR (incl. webmail)  password.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Till</h3>
<ul>
	<li>I stopped by the  Primary Library on  Tuesday 2/13, 1 hr.  Jacobson was not there (this was the big snow day).  I used a different admin login to set correct techco password on student computer where Erin reported the techco login was not working.   The Reading Counts per-user setup I now realize is not as straightforward as I have been supposing; emailed and started to discuss with Sudduth in person, but we will defer serious experimentation until we have time; also could get support from the Scholastic rep?</li>
</ul>
<h3>Wadsworth</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Thursday 2/16 for 4:00.</li>
	<li>Completed the INSTR student logins with Townsend.  (Because the techwiki is down, could not reprint for her the instructions for first part of the operation nor write up the second half.)</li>
	<li>There was a student who joined the school since the day last week when we ran the SI listing. I said, Let's go back to the office and get a new listing. Sharon said, Show me how to do add a student manually. I said, Then next time you do a general update he will be added by the automatic process and will have duplicate accounts. We compromised: she phoned the office and got the student's ID number, and we manually added a line for this student to the comma-delimited-text UNIT6300.txt file, truncated the file to just that line, then ran the scrip didn'tt against that faked-out file.</li>
	<li>I checked the computers in rows 3 and 4 of 221 (the ad hoc lab), and for the most part they were good.  One is not updating Trend antivirus but seems okay otherwise, so I left it alone.   One was  having  difficulty opening control panel applets or running the Wadsworth-ADM01 scripts; this was the last nein the far corner,and turned out to be the one Noah was  previously reporting as a trouble spot.  I did a clean reinstall of W2K and got through most of the steps to putting everything back that it needs. Didn't quite finish the Progressive Learning setup, but Noah might have finished that.  It's a fairly extensive fixup process altogether, we might want to take a Ghost image of a couple models.</li>
	<li>Noah came in shortly before I was leaving.  We didn't have extensive overlap time but made good use of it, to touch base on the status of the lab and discuss what other areas he might get into next (subsequently checked with Shaz and Russ).</li>
</ul>