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

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/30

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

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

<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, DIBELS support

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Monday is somewhat of a blur, but I'm pretty sure I spent the day helping Ms. Alexander with her computers. I took a little time to check in on Ms. Freckleton in 121 -- I'd installed a new computer in her room last Monday and intended to get it up to code, but it had mysteriously become password protected and I wasn't sure what to do with it. It seems like Dana's dealt with it, though, so that's good news. So, back to Ms. Alexander. She had a teacher (Ms. Prasad-Heintz, 111) who had tested a student in DIBELS, tried to sync her Palm on one of the stations I'd set up in Ms. Alexander's room, and then lost the new testing data on her Palm. This had already happened to this poor teacher, so I was super-nervous about losing the data for her re-test. To avoid any difficulties, I synced the Palm on Ms. Love's computer (107? 105, maybe?) and all the data updated just fine without any losses. On Wednesday, I spent a lot of time on the phone with Wireless Generation trying to find out what was wrong with my sync stations. I'd noticed that when syncing on Ms. Love's computer, the HotSync window did NOT show a message I'd seen on my sync stations: "Waiting for server response: 0%". While Wireless Generation couldn't help, and while I still haven't gotten the message to go away, I did a little test where I "tested" a demo student on Ms. Alexander's Palm and then synced it on one of my stations. The data uploaded fine, and nothing was lost, so I guess they're okay? I'm nervous about this mostly because Fermi is hosting a Reading 3-D training on December 5th, and they need as many functional sync stations as possible (especially since mid-year DIBELs benchmarking is coming up). Hopefully, we won't have any problems, but any secrets to setting up sync stations for DIBELs would be much appreciated. On Friday, I replaced a broken monitor in Dr. Cima's room (108), put shortcuts to Progressive Learning on every computer in the lab at the request of Mr. Hinton (220), and then messed around in the back of the lab with the six billion million trillion outdated software manuals they have stored there. Neither Dr. Sanders nor Mr. Taylor were in and I didn't want to start throwing everything away without their go-ahead, but that's definitely a project for the near future.