<h2><strong style="font-size: 13px;">Your Name: Fernando Cstro</strong></h2>
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<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2013/2/22

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T Θ

<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>

<strong>The School: Sexton</strong><em>
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<strong>Kind of Work:</strong>  Tech General, Lab supervision

<strong>URL(s)</strong>:  http://www.howtogeek.com/118075/how-to-stream-videos-and-music-over-the-network-using-vlc/

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Week 6:

Tues: No class

Thurs:   I spent most of the day in the lab with students. They've been having issues with accessing certain websites that use adobe shockwave, and I was helping kids move to another computer if shockwave wasn't working and also trying to troubleshoot the issue. Everyone seems to suspect the issue to be with the website, as do I, since shockwave installs correctly and is verified by the test page available on the adobe website (http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/) but the site they use still doesn't work.

Week 7:

Tues: Ms. Stapinski in room 103 got 2 new desktops (Gateway SX 2850 model) from a grant, and asked us to set them up. She got them directly from Best Buy so everything needed to be done to connect them to the CPS network, domain, etc.  The first issue we ran into was that they didn't seem to come with wifi adapters so we couldn't get them connected to the internet (no wired connections available in the classroom). The second issue is that many of the utilities from the compliance site didn't support windows 8. Thus, we're sort of waiting on the school to purchase adapters to connect the computers to the internet, and then we'll figure out how to deal with the windows 8 issue.

Thurs: Ms. Monroe wants to live-stream daily news, etc to all the classrooms in the school. I read online that you could use VLC player to stream on the network (URL provided in the header), so I tried streaming what was going on on the desktop of one computer to another computer following the instructions given. It seemed to work, but took about 2 minutes for a computer to connect to the stream, and there was also a 2-3 minute latency in what was going on. I tried to change some of the settings on the streaming computer (using a different transcoding setting, as well as increasing stream framerate (default was 1 FPS))  but I couldn't get the stream to connect. And then when I tried to go back to the default settings to see if it still worked at all, I couldn't get the stream to connect. The error kept saying that it could not connect to the MRL address. I looked up the error code online and apparently it means that usually the firewall is preventing

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