Your Name: Katie Schilling

Today’s Date: 2010/11/19

Day(s) worked or described: M W F

Total hours for week: 12

The School: Dumas Technology Academy

Kind of Work: Server access, Software Issues

Main Report or Narrative:

This week has been pretty chill.  On Monday and Wednesday, I went through my checklist and standardized the Macs in the media center (G5's in 201/203). I ran into one computer that has a different password on the admin account that I cannot change.  I tried changing the password via the install disk, and it confirmed the password change and restarted, but the password still did not work.  The computer is only usable via automatic login.  I'm tempted to just reinstall the OS, as the set up is simple on that computer, but I am trying to find another solution.  I asked around, and no one has any ideas (do you?). EDIT:  I found a disk image of another hard drive in use...  long story short, it's fixed.

On Friday, I saw that iPhoto had been deleted from several of the computers...  this must have happened during my first week, as the applications have been "locked" since then.  I reinstalled iPhoto on these computers.  Ms. Allen thinks it is the kids in the after school program held in that room who were changing all the settings.

I talked to Mr. Tolbert, and he has nothing for me to do until the new computers come in.  So, I started in on my wiki page on the cpstechacademy wikispace.  It seems like Ms. Johnson wants me to incorporate some Web 2.0 into the classroom.  I'm also getting started on clickers today (and Monday).  I'm going to try getting a clicker ppt going on my computer.  Maybe I can integrate this with the web 2.0?  Have clicker scores posted online?  I'm trying to get the teachers interested, as we have a closet full of clickers.

In talking to Mr. Tolbert, it seems that there is a strong desire to get individual CPS accounts for students in grades 6-8.  I need to work on this (I'll email you guys about it!), as I think it would solve issues with sharing.  I was told that kids already have these logins assigned but they just aren't using them.  Is this true?