<strong>Your Name: </strong>Adam Shaw

<strong>Today's Date: </strong>2/17/12

<strong>Days Worked: </strong>Weeks 6/7 Friday

<strong>The School: </strong>Jackie Robinson Elementary

<strong>Total Hours for Week: </strong>2.5 per week, 5 total

<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General - Lab Maintenance, helping out teachers

<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>: At Robinson there are some definite growing pains with the technology they are working to introduce to the classes. There are some smart boards installed, which teachers are trying to get the hang of, but they really don't have much time during the day when they can actually prepare something interesting to use these boards for. There is a push to get the teachers to bring students into the lab, but the teachers are unfamiliar with some of the software they have at their disposal. I worked with Russ to troubleshoot an ELMO document scanner - it turned out the autofocus knob had broken off - and a smart board - the vga cable was broken.

We also helped Ms. German, the gym teacher who is pretty interested in becoming more familiar with some of the technology, with software called Insight, which helps with managing all of the computers in the lab. Finally, I did some maintenance work on the computers in the lab - cleaning up the desktop, stopping extraneous programs from running at startup, plugging ethernet cables back in.