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<h1> Staff (Mitch) Activities and Schools for Week of<strong>  (Sat) 2007/04/21 – (Fri) 2007/04/27</strong></h1>
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[I took day off on Friday, April 27]

[Plus sick day on Thurs, April 26]
<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Fermi, Tues 4/24 = 2:30, weds 4/25 = 3:00, total = 5:30</li>
	<li>Leadership, Tues 4/24 = 2:15</li>
	<li>Murray email advice Tuesday 4/24 = 0:20, onsite weds 4/25 = 1:20, total = 1:40</li>
	<li>Woodlawn: Monday 4/23 = 2:00, Tues 4/24 = 2:00, total 4:00</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>
Can't reconstruct from this distance.  But likely not much progress on any of these plans.  Not to say they aren't important, just that we lack a good system for balancing priorities.
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<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>
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<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>
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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>
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<h3> CUIP Summer Classes prep</h3>
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<h3> CUIP Tech EXPO prep</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Planning with Shaz and Sara for the web site space and access.  MLK-CPHS students will be helping out.</li>
	<li>Copied last year's project registration form, checked and  emptied/updated data file.  Sara updated page visuals.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Email to techcos, relaying the notices from schoolname-adm01 site and commenting thereon.  The issues were:
<ul>
	<li> Windows Server 2003 servers, Service Pack 2 update</li>
	<li> Passwords will be changed on some special accounts</li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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<h3> eCUIP</h3>
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<h3> Chicago Web Docent</h3>
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<h3> CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>
<ul>
	<li>One of the rehab computers was compromised before updates and onboard firewall/antivirus were completed, so NetSec turned off the port for the room.  Shaz and Russ dealt with them nicely.  Lucky for me,  I didn't read the emails until late on Friday, so didn't need to wrestle with whether to get up from my sickbed and go in to snivel around.</li>
</ul>
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<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>
<ul>
	<li> Hey, who ever knows??</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Personal Professional-Development Activities</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Not darn likely is it?</li>
</ul>
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<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>
<ul>
	<li>When we recommend purchase of a portable HDD for Leadership (for Ghosting and similar purposes), the idea is floated of sharing expense/uses with ENTR.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fermi</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday 4/24 = 2:30. Reviewed  computer disposition  (not disposal!) plan with principal Dr. Sanders, moved  some computers among different rooms on that basis.   Also some other followups from our group previous notes.  Details in email.</li>
	<li>Students in line in the hallway were offering to help carry the computers around.  I should have arranged for that! but could tell their teachers needed to keep them in focus.  Keeping my sweater-jacket on was useful (though overheated) as it was easy to tuck a keyboard here and a mouse there ...</li>
	<li>The spot in the teachers' lounge seemed to have no electric power to those specific plugs.  The engineer is checking into it.</li>
	<li>Wednesday 4/25 followups = 3:30.  Teacher's lounge now okay.  Finished with Ms Meyers 116.  Absurd printer problems for Ms. Graham 216.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fiske</h3>
<ul>
	<li>We were unable to  pull data from Mrs Cobbs's laptop HD, despite using 2.5-inch external enclosure.</li>
	<li>See  my general note to techcos  about  OTS  remote update of Windows 2003 Servers to Service Pack 2, and possible space problems.  Fiske 's  older server  needs to be checked for this!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday  with  Russ and Ariel  -- planned for  Ghost  imaging  of  out-of-storage computers.  See  Ariel's  report last week and my replying comment,   <a href="http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/20/school-of-leadership-week-5/">http://reporting.cuip.net/2007/04/20/school-of-leadership-week-5/</a></li>
	<li>Will continue next Tuesday.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Murray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>tuesda4 4/24  email =0:20,  weds. 4/25 onsite = 1:20.  Same topic continuing both days, space on C: partition of murray-srv02, whch is their webserver.</li>
	<li> We ended up deleting some old (2004) patch-rollback compressed folders, freeing 295 MB.  Also discussed/outlined steps needed to move Website files to another drive, but didn't carry that out today.  Joe will probably do that later this week.  That will open up another 250 MB approx.</li>
	<li>Got mail from Joe saying he did move the web server files to another partition, no evident problems, and frreeing up considerable space on C:.  The Veritas backup ran successfully after that.  I should have mentioned that Veritas failure reports were the original problem, which we saw as linked to the fll system partition!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Prep for new web site continues apace.  email advice with Gabe Sheridan.</li>
	<li>Set "official" debut date of May 1.  [Retrospective  comment:  Gabe and Dawei came through with the completed site, on time and looking good!]</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodlawn</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Monday  4/23 afterschool TechKnow.  The students have reached the dis-assembly/re-assembly exercises.  It takes considerable adult attention to keep them on track and keep them careful with their computers.</li>
	<li>Tuesday 4/24. Sara  also came to the TechKnow session, and was a big help.</li>
	<li>When the students re-assemble their computers, they have been taking them up to a station wth keyboard and monitor, and check that it goes through the POST at least.    As of Tuesday, they added into the routine a visit to the "F2"  Setup screen, which is useful.  It shows if the HDD or CDROM, for instance, is not being detected; and this gives the student team some help in what connections to recheck.</li>
</ul>
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<strong>(Optional) What’s playing now?:</strong>

Monday nothing, Tuesday nothing
Wednesday and Thursday nothing
Friday for a change a little more nothing
Saturday once more nothing.

Sunday nothing, Monday nothing
Tuesday and Wednesday nothing
Thursday for a change a little more nothing
Friday once more nothing.

[Yiddish verse ...]

Lunes nada, martes nada
Miercoles y jueves nada
Viernes por cambio poco mas nada
Sabado otra vez nada

Nada nada, nada nada,
Nananananana nada

January nothing, February nothing
March and April nothing
May and June a lot more nothing
Juu-uu-llli-y nothing

Twenty-nine nothing, thirty-two nothing
Thirty-nine forty-five nothing
Nineteen sixty-five a whole lot of nothing
Nineteen sixty-six nothing.

Reading nothing, writing nothing
Even arithmetic nothing!
Geography, philosophy, history nothing
Social Anthropology -- hakkalokka nothing

Oh, <em>Village Voice</em> nothing, <em>New Yorker</em> nothing
<em>Sing Out</em> and <em>Folkways</em> nothing
Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg
Nothing nothing nothing

Poetry nothing, music nothing
Painting and dancing nothing
The world's great books a great set of nothing
Ahhty and fahhty nothing

F___ing nothing, s___ing nothing
Flesh and sex nothing
Church and Times Square all a lot of nothing
Nothing nothing nothing

Stevenson nothing, Humphrey nothing
Averell Harriman nothing
John Stuart Mi-ill nihil nihil
Franklin Delano Nothing

Karl Marx nothing, Engels nothing
Bakunin &amp; Kropotkin nyothing
Leon Trotsky lots of nothing
Stalin less! than nothing

Nothing nothing, nothing nothing
A whole lot of whole lotta nothing
Nothing lots and lots of nothing
Nothing nothing nothing nothing

Nothing-nothing-nothing
Nothing!
Nothing nothing nothing!
[rep. ad libitum]

Lots of it
Nothing -- nothing -- nothing
Not a god-damned thing