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

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

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W F (erase the letters for days you weren’t there)

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

<strong>The School: Fermi</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, helping teachers

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>

I spent most of Monday setting up one of Ms. Alexander's computers as a Palm Pilot sync station for DIBELs. I don't know if any teacher has managed to successfully sync with it yet, but all of the necessary software is there. This came in handy, as the other two computers in Ms. Alexander's room (120) now refuse to log onto DIBBLES and are generally having some serious problems with slowing down and coming up with highly mysterious errors (oops! can't initialize explorer! etc.). I struggled with these computers for a while, and continued to fight with them on Wednesday. I also spent some time on Wednesday with Mr. Joslin, who needed me to install some software on his classroom computers. That went off with only one minor hitch -- one progam insisted that there wasn't enough space for it to be installed on one computer even though there was...this wasn't really a crisis, though. On Friday, Mitch came in to see what could be done about Ms. Alexander's finicky computers and to teach me about ghosting. We played around with the virtual RAM on some of the computers, but the main problem seems to be caused by an update pushed from downtown. To try to fix the problem, we ghosted one of the computers, but I had to leave before it finished so I'm not sure how successful the operation was. A slightly frustrating week overall, but maybe the day off on Monday will give everything time to magically fix itself! Fingers crossed.