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<strong>Your Name:</strong> Sasha Reschechtko

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/4/18

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

<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 4

<strong>The School: </strong>Woodlawn Community School

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

<strong>Work on Printers: ~</strong>25% of my total time this week

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Tuesday:

I went to a classroom to check on an apparently malfunctioning printer.  It appears that the problems with that printer were manifold: it was not plugged into anything, a cord was obstructing the paper tray, it had paper jam, and there were many things in the print que.  I really don't care to find out how all these things happened, but I cleared it up.  I then tried installing some vocabulary software on computers in the same room; the software is "WordSmart" brand, and pretty fancy, I presume, but also a real pain to do anything with.  I had some trouble getting the program to run on the computers (it said an error log was being created, but I'm not sure where to check and whether I will be able to decipher the log if I find it), and it appears that a portion of the software will only work with the CD in the computer, which is not ideal for a teacher who wants to have five students use the program at the same time...  Finally, I did a bit of work on another printer; I'm not sure what exactly was wrong, but I got it to work.

Wednesday:

I worked on disk clean-up for a computer taken out of the office because it was not functioning as a result of having &gt;100 mb of hard disk space.  The computer is set up with two 20 GB drives, but, of course, only one is used.  It seems like the easiest solution might be uninstalling some programs and reinstalling them on the other disk, but I don't know if that's a good idea or not (whether it would have any unintended consequences).

I then worked on computers in the kindergarten room; I made sure the printer was shared out (I have no idea why the kindergarteners have a printer), and added memory to a particularly poorly performing computer.  I also ran into some problems joining one of the kindergarten computers to INSTR; Mitch gave me some pointers that I'll try on Monday.

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