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<h1>Staff (mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of (Sat) 2007/04/14 thru (Fri) 2007/04/20</h1>
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[i.e. about 3 weeks back from when finally posted]

[Not a bean!  T<strong>his was IMPACT rollout week for the Elems in our areas!</strong>]

[<strong>Wednesday (4/18) and Thursday (4/19) were report-card days</strong> in the Elementaries and High Schools respectively.  Non-attendance days for students, teachers came in late and stayed late to meet with parents,]
<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Fermi: Weds. 4:30, Thurs. online 15 min</li>
	<li>Murray: Thurs 4/19, online 30 min</li>
	<li>Ray: Weds (4/18): 1:30, Thurs. (4/19): 30 min, Fri (4/20) 1:00, total 3:00</li>
	<li>Sexton: Thursday 4/19, 3:30</li>
	<li>Till: Monday (4/16) A.M. 2:00, Monday P.M. 2:30, Tuesday (4/17) 2:30. Total 7:00</li>
	<li>Woodlawn: Monday  (4/16)  1:45, Fri (4/20) 0:30 , total 2:15</li>
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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>
Not able to reconstruct at this distance.  Probably no progress on most anyway.
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<h2>This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>
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<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Unfortunately lost our NSP for WCS.  Staff will fill in, esp. for TechKnow.</li>
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<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>
<ul>
	<li>ELVEN initiative virt.host on cuip server.  (Hindsight note: Craig didn't get the DNS forwarding going right until May 7.)</li>
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<h2>This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3>Fermi</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Wednesday 4/18.  I visited for general tech classroom purposes.  Learned that Fermi was NOT deferred a week from the IMPACT rollout, but in fact started on it Monday just like the other elementary schools in this area.</li>
	<li>I dealt with  teacher-desktop computers in several rooms and  recorded  these results in an online  spreadsheet in our Google docs account which Sara had started off the previous week.</li>
	<li>Separately: later implemented  http://Fermiblogs.cuip.net virtual host for when the TRAs begin working blogs with the teachers here.</li>
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<h3>Murray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Thursday (4/19). Multi-round email with Joe Mills about ELGG and Second Life, summjer plans,</li>
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<h3>Ray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Weds (4/18), Thurs. (4/19): Worked  with  Dawei  and Gabe Sheridan  on the  revised web  site.</li>
	<li>Friday (4/20): With Mary and Bryan, physically relocated www.ray.cps.k12.il.us server from IDF room in Annex to MDF room in main bldg.   I didn't really know until today where the main bldg elevator was!  (And we did use the elevator, to roll the whole apparatus on its cart instead of separating CPU and monitor, etc.)  Plugged into the main switch and after one false start it was working fine.</li>
	<li>However, the move did not dramatically ease of connection or speed from room 115 (Sheridan's classroom)</li>
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<h3>Sexton</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Thursday 4/19 for about 3 hrs.  Ms. Jackson, room 124.  Loaded CPS W2K  on her oldercomputer despite low RAM, for the sake of getting it on the network and able to share or use a shared printer.  Set it up as dual-boot so she can still get into the Win98 setup if she ever really needs to.  This setup and the printer-sharing were successful.</li>
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<h3>Till</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Monday  (4/16).   Check-in to see how the IMPACT rollout has gone here.  Some major problems.  See separate emails.</li>
	<li>Helped Ms L Y Brady  with passwords, both CPS and OneRoom.  Restored the icons to her desktop.</li>
	<li>Saw Ms. Moyenda  and Ms. Teague  in room next door, power-cycled their shared CBOX switch  and rebooted their computers.</li>
	<li>Afternoon, checked in with Sudduth.  The IMPACT person may be here but next door.</li>
	<li>The networking contractor had been here Friday; Linda showed me the work report.  They checked connectivity in the little building; for some rooms (report did not specify) the fiber connection was not good, so they switched to second pair.   This morning we rebooted switch in 407 (Teague) and her computers; the connection in her room and Moyenda was good after that.  BUT this afternoon it was bad in all three rooms that use that CBOX.  [405/7/9,  Moyenda / Teague / White].</li>
	<li>Since power-cycling the switching equipment in the CBOX fixes things, that may be what needs changing.  Sudduth will call them out again.</li>
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<h3>Woodlawn</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Monday  (4/16) . Check-in re IMPACT.  Going okay.</li>
	<li>Joined  Mr. Hubbard's  computer  (front security desk) to INSTR.</li>
	<li>The IBM from  110 was temporarily swapped with  another machine so that she could do IMPACT. Today I finished working on that IBM (across the hall), starting with network drivers, which in turn allowed it to connect and do remediation etc etc.</li>
	<li>Fri (4/20) half-hour return visit, to discuss CUIP staffing at WCS.</li>
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<strong>(Optional) What's been good to read lately?:</strong>

Never been very much into Milan Kundera, but I was so excited by his article in the <em>New Yorker</em> issue in my backlog that I'm getting to -- about the differences among a national culture (especially for small European nations like Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic), language-group cultures or literatures, world literature, and maybe something for a gap he articulates even after giving those layers..  (I was thinking it was back in November but looked and it's just January.  There is hope!)  So I've sent away for his forthcoming book of essays which I hope will include this one, plus an early novel of his and one he mentions (<em>Ferdydurcke</em>?) that I ever heard of but plays a role in his argument.

So I'd better finish that issue, not only to clip and stash away that essay in case it isn't in the collection, but also  to clip and give Erik the rather good article on NFL football.  Actually it's a review/survey article on football <em>books, </em>but not too limited chronologically.  (At one time the <em>New Yorker</em> was happy to publish essays simply about baseball itself, but now apparently can tolerate only a football books article, not something simply on the game itself.  But I could be wrong.)