<strong>Your Name:</strong> Cliff Taylor

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2010/10/29

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

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

<strong>The School: </strong>Ray

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

This is my first report for Fermi this year, due to the fact that it has been quite busy from day one back at the school.

Our new Work Request system is working very well.  It definitely allows me to keep track of multiple tasks.  I also think more teachers are reporting problems with work requests than they did when they would catch me in the hallway.  Ultimately, these requests take up a good portion of my day here.

Big Stuff:

Installed an ISAT 8 Writing program on all the lab computers for Mr. Hinton.  I told him to clear it with Dr. Sanders first.  My fear is that when teachers ask to have us install a program, they will use it once, and then it will just sit unused.  With the old Acers, there were tons of programs I had to uninstall because they took up so much space and were rarely, if ever, utilized.  Therefore I will be asking all teachers to clear the program they want installed on lab computers with Dr. Sanders first.  The last thing I want is to slow down these new computers with programs that don't get used.

When I first arrived back at Fermi, the CUIP team had cleaned out old CPUs and Monitors from the rest of the school and put them in the lab.  We had enough for an asset disposal and those are now gone.  The lab is the more organized and clean now than I have ever seen it.  Hopefully this will stay the case.

Small Stuff:

Fixed touchscreen by uploading drivers in Ms. Randall's room.  The other Hatch computer has finally died.  Absolutely nothing appears on the monitor when the CPU is turned on and after trying a different monitor got the same result.

Printer problems here and there in teachers' rooms.  Most of the time the default printer is set incorrectly and as a result there will be 30 unfinished jobs in the print queve.  I've deleted any printers in the "Printers and Faxes" that are not supposed to be networked to that computer and set appropriate default printers.

There are new personnel in the building who have laptops and needed them to be added to the wireless network.  I've done that when needed.