<p><strong>Your Name: Kevin Koll</strong></p>
<p><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 4/24/2008</p>
<p><strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> F</p>
<p><strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 4.5 for 3rd week 3 for 4th week</p>
<p><strong>The School: Price</strong></p>
<p><strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Laptop cart management and fixing the computer lab</p>
<p><strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>During 3rd week I spent most of my time in the science room helping a teacher use the laptop cart. There were two different forces that fueled one another to make the situation chaotic. Technology problems led to behavioral problems, and behavioral problems in turn created more technology problems.</p>
<p>Technology Problems: There weren't enough laptops for every student to use their own.  The teacher didn't pair students up, so there were about 5 students who sat off to the side not doing any work at all, while several students had their own computers. Of the working computers, about half couldn't connect to INSTR, which meant students had to log onto school/Student!. This meant they couldn't save their files to the network, and more importantly, they couldn't print because the printer is only available on the INSTR network.</p>
<p>Behavioral Problems: The students without computers found a box of legos in the back of the room and spent most of the time playing with those. The teacher didn't seem to mind, even when the kids started throwing them at one another. When I saw they were making guns out of the legos, I stepped in and took them away. Students were frequently walking around the room, sometimes carrying their laptops. One girl, while horsing around with her friend nearly threw the computer off the table, luckily she grabbed ahold of it at the last minute.  I caught one student looking at pornography, and took his laptop. However, when I showed the teacher he shrugged it off saying "he has a lot of problems" This student spent the rest of the class playing with legos.</p>
<p>I'm guessing the computer lab has about the same level of supervision. When I walked into the lab today, things were in such disarray that I decided to make a list of all the  problems I encountered</p>
<p><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">1)</span><span style="7pt ">      </span></span><span style="small;">Power cord unplugged, mouse unplugged</span></span></p>
<p><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">2)</span><span style="7pt ">      </span></span><span style="small;">Power cord unplugged, mouse unplugged</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="list 27.0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">3)</span><span style="7pt ">      </span></span><span style="small;">Mouse missing trackball</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="list 27.0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">4)</span><span style="7pt ">      </span></span><span style="small;">Keyboard unplugged and laying on ground</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="list 27.0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">5)</span><span style="7pt ">      </span></span><span style="small;">Monitor unplugged, mouse missing, keyboard without space bar</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="list 27.0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">6)</span><span style="7pt ">      </span></span><span style="small;">Monitor unplugged from CPU, no mouse or keyboard</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="list 27.0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">7)</span><span style="7pt ">      </span></span><span style="small;">Monitor, CPU power cords unplugged, no mouse or keyboard</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="list 27.0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">8)</span><span style="7pt ">      </span></span><span style="small;">Keyboard unplugged, mouse missing</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="list 27.0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">9)</span><span style="7pt ">      </span></span><span style="small;">Keyboard unplugged, mouse missing</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="list 27.0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">10)</span><span style="7pt ">  </span></span><span style="small;">Monitor power cord unplugged, mouse missing</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="list 27.0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;"><span style="Ignore;"><span style="small;">11)</span><span style="7pt ">  </span></span><span style="small;">Mouse Missing</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;">In addition, there was a pile of 6 broken mice, 3 missing track balls, and 3 with the pins bent out of shape. I was able to combine some parts to make one of them work again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;">6 computers worked without any problems, although half of them were locked up because the previous users forgot to log out.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="Times New Roman;">I'm going to spend all of my time today fixing things, but I don't think I'll be able to get the lab back to 100% by the time I leave. This isn't the first time the lab looks like it's been hit by a whirlwind, but it is by far the worst I've seen it. Too much time goes into fixing problems that could easily be prevented with better supervision. </span></p>
<p> <strong>Update:</strong> I have things generally sorted out in the lab, although I pulled two of the computers into the MDF room for repairs, and I found a few more broken mice. When I told Ms. Herron about the lab's condition, she said she was going to lock it up again</p>
