Your Name: Sasha Reschechtko

Today’s Date: 2008/6/13

Day(s) worked or described: week 10: T, W; finals week: M, T, W

Total hours for weeks: 5, 6

The School: Woodlawn Community School

Kind of Work: TechKnow, Inventory, Lab Clean Up 

Main Report or Narrative:

Week 10: I cleaned up the TechKnow room on Tuesday by putting away all of the cords and cables.  I moved lots of old computers into storage.  On Wednesday, I made up the TechKnow test by finding parts from  a "spare parts" bin (they're all too old to actually be spare)--motherboard, processor, hard disk, BIOS battery, etc.  On Wednesday afternoon I pretty much just watched the kids take the test.  I was worried that they wouldn't recognize the parts because the onles I selected were from different computers and I don't have a lot of confidence that TechKnow teaches computer anatomy well enough, but it seems that they all did alright.

Finals Week: I cleaned up the lab by rebundling some of the cords, putting away headphones, turning off computers, and so on.  I moved all of the computer stuff out of the TechKnow room and helped some parents carry students' computers from TechKnow to their cars.

Printers (finals week): I also worked on an HP inkjet printer that was having feed problems for an hour or two; I didn't resolve anything.  I don't know what was going on on Wednesday, but Ms. Johnson wasn't printing anything in the lab (I don't know if it's because something was broken or just because the computers were off) and she was planning to go to a different school to print report cards or something (so maybe check up on the printers?).  Also, someone complained (the last day of school, of course), that the toner from a few printers was coming off of the paper or something; I didn't exactly understand what she meant, but maybe she was talking about toner streaking, which has been a problem, but was not a prolific one, last time I checked. 

Have a good summer!