Week 9

Today I learned how to add macs, as opposed to PCs, to the domain. The naming syntax was the same however one also had to do things like note who was able to access the computer now that it was part of the network with the syntax NUSD\(School intials)_(group) an example being NUSD\RES_Teachers etc. You also had to make sure that the computer knew the LDAP connection went to hub.nusd.loc.

We also figured out how the kids have been muting the sound on their computers depise not having the privelages to do so. On the upper right part of the keyboard as an inconspicuous button that has a speaker with an x through it that toggles mute. Previously we had thought we had to exit the program, enter a program called fortress that gave us full privelages on a non-privelaged account and unmute the speakers. Now we know we can simply press this button in order to return sound to them.

Not much else happened, I delivered some AR reports to classrooms and taught Mrs. Jones's students how to acess AR by themselves and helped the kids when Ms. Kreuzberger's class took their first AR tests in the lab.

Week 8

I spent the entirety of today installing a new version of Report Card Maker on the computers of the teachers at Rancho. For the windows users it was ease itself to do it, all you had to do was go to control panel, add/remove programs and remove the old version. Visit their website, download and press run. After that all you had to do was identify your state and district, then click "get" to retrieve a list of this year's students for the teacher. That was all there was to it.

The Macs, while not comlpicated were far more tedious and time consuming. You had to move all taces of the old application to the trash and rename the RCM (Report Card Maker) folder. Then you went and downloaded the mac version at which point you had to unzip the file, which took time, then install it in the ridiculous manner of dragging one oversized file into another. After that you had to create shortcuts on the teacher's desktop for him or her to find, all in all, the process was several times longer than the one for windows.

When finished I came back to the lab where we had one class before departing.

Week 7

First we helped Ms. Kreuzberger set up a new computer. The problem originally was there were too many files to transfer them via a Flash Drive. So we changed the domain from NUSD.LOC to WORKGROUP on both computers. This allowed them to share files so we placed the files from the old computer onto shared, put them on the new computer, then hooked up the latter in her from. By doing this we did not only give a teacher a new computer we made sure that everyone in the school is running on the same OS, specifically Windows XP.

Soon after Mr. McDonald came in for a class where his kids did Accelerated Reader. Soon Ms. Stanek came asking us to help with her E-Mail. Apparently no matter what she did it ordered it oldest to newest which was greatly inconveniencing her. It turned out she had accidentally clicked a button that changed the order and she had not realized yet that it was a button as it appeared to be just saying what was in the column.

I then learned how to switch out a hard drive, which I don't know why I never bothered to learn earlier as it is ridiculously easy. All that is necessary is to slide it out and then plug in a few wires in the back. After that I installed XP however we then had a string of classes cutting out time short.

Week 6

We started out giving Ms. Kuhn a new computer. Unfortunately whoever had originally reformatted the computer had forgoten to install the ethernet driver so we could not get onto the net or hook up to NUSD.LOC so we had to go get a disc and install the necessary driver. Then we used the RES-XXX-YYYYY syntax.

After this we logged into to all the students whos accounts had been activated in Ms. Levinson's class to put a shortcut to a page about geological formations. It was rather cumbersome as we had to log onto the each individual student on their assigned computer, log them into google, then drag the URL bar onto the desktop.

The last things we did was set up a computer for resource whos computers are woefully outdated. Besides all this we helped several classes, second graders learning Microsoft Word and 5th graders using accelerated reader etc.