Week 9 - whole lotta nothing

Goals for the week:
1) Try and get parts for old server to make it run.
2) Get 2 whiteboards made for my lab... one for rules and the other for teaching.
3) Ask about a bed or wood supplied to make boxes for computers.
4) look into a regulator.

[week 9] May 26 June 1
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(26) Monday -
(27) Tuesday -
(28) Wednesday -
(29) Thursday -
(30) Friday -
(31) Saturday - Mike Hawkings stayed over.
(01) Sunday -
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Week 8 - Let it be faster than light

[week 8] May 19-25 May
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(19) Monday - Did very little... was really broke. read a little.
(20) Tuesday - went to the beach with the baby docs.
(21) Wednesday - Setup PC logins... and reformatted first server on a bigger HD.
(22) Thursday - setup PC's with logins...2. Finished with setting up sink.
(23) Friday - Outlined Rich's world map with my projector... got insanely partied up with the PC's and wet attare cafe... I skipped the blue hole run smartly.
(24) Saturday - Helped paint Rich's world map with Molly, kate bryan albain and hunter and mike stafford. Nighttime I ripped open Ryan's old server and formatted it with 2012 server. Ripped out the guts and have to get CPU fan Glue now.
(25) Sunday - did not do much... played faster than light for hours, and ate attare cafe and talked to the Irish guy steven I think
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Doubt we get to do what i plan but here is to what i hope:
Whiteboard 2, should be made.
Bed should start being made
Sink should be finished
Copy or make new install of Server with more space allocated on main partition.
Supplied for making computer boxes should be bought
prepare to leave for PST2

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Week 7 - Principle problems with the Pricipal

[week 7] May 12 May 18
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(12) Monday - Len (PC IT admin) can and visited me at my site and helped reduce the problems I had with head master.
(13) Tuesday - Worked on house made a projection box and curtain door for my house.
(14) Wednesday - Went to Coral Sea restaurant with Bryan and Kate and the baby-docs and ate and sat on the doc and talked for hours.
(15) Thursday - Might go to million dollar point with the Baby-docs... they are pretty rad.
(16) Friday - Installed internet, and almost finished my bathroom sink. Got yelled at by my principle for getting internet without his permission... and slammed his fist on the desk and said don't fucking install shit in your house without my knowledge.
(17) Saturday - Movie night. We watched Captain America... need better sound system. Sam's dog was killed by a car.
(18) Sunday - Went to cruise ship area and not much else.
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Been a week... last few day of no kids at school... many days of just hanging out and meeting people. It has been entertaining. Wish I was not so broke it would be more affordable.

Got cursed at by my principle. he is not totally stable.

Welll shared my list of goals with the principle and these are it: wonder if I can achieve them all...

1) I plan to setup windows 2012 R2 server on computer and switch over to new server. This is an expensive software I purchased for use at our school. This will give all users logins and permissions. This means that we can reduce bad behavior that eat up network bandwidth, meaning we will have faster internet and people will not be goofing off watching/downloading improper material. This will also reduce damages to the computers by preventing people from installing junk software, viruses and other malicious things that damage the computers.

2) I plan to build computer containment enclosures. Thes will be large boxes that have fans and air filters on them, which will preserve the lifespan of the computers by preventing dust, smoke, bugs, small geckos and other things from getting into the computer and destroying them. These will be critical to preserving the computers. Once we build these the life span will increase from the average time of one year before a machine burns out to up to five years. Because it is not old humidity and heat that kills computer but dust and dirt. And as I sweep the lab daily I can see there is so much filth being tracked into the lab we need these urgently.

3) I plan to find sources to supply the school with 20 or more computers. As we grow our computer resources we can expand the lab space into other rooms and enable other teacher to use them for their subjects such as Biology or Chemistry or English or History. Having access to computers  does not limit the teaching to only learning basic computer skills it is a tool that can be used for teaching any subject. I want to keep the computer resources expanding to help other teachers with their subject matter.

4) I am a resource that can help fix software/hardware problems at the school. Within the first days of my work at College De Luganville I was approached with broken computers and software problems. I have fixed a few and solved several software problems. A service like this would be very expensive to hire and I plan to provide that for free.

5) I plan to teach my counterpart and any teacher that is interested how to use their computers better or by providing software their can use to fulfill their needs. Again this would be a very expensive resource to find in Luganville.

6) I plan to work with my counterpart and show him all the school lessons my fellow Peace Corps volunteers and I have developed and used in their classrooms. This will help improve the academic quality of the IT lessons.

7) I plan to improve and document the network architecture of the school, so that we can improve support and speed of the network. Such things as having access to the shared printer, having ability to scan documents from any computer, and connect to a local hosted College De Luganville website for the school.

8) Build a locally hosted College De Luganville website that will promote the school and show off the improvements and act as a means to promote enrollment. The website can be used for a number of things beyond being an advertisement. We can put information into the website for students to use, such as a wiki like wikipedia. That could be used to retain information from students such as book reports or writing assignments, things that can then be referred to by students that come next year and the year after. Everyone is moving towards as less paper reliant society. If we can retain this information much like wikipedia does the school will benefit.

Week 6 - cleaning house i.e. the lab

[week 6] May 5 May 11

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(05) Monday - Cleaned lab and watched the whiteboard being made for the class rooms.

(06) Tuesday - Installed closet in house

(07) Wednesday - Installed Sink but not hooked up yet

(08) Thursday - Did not do much... read and wrote

(09) Friday - Peace corps from GAD visited for a few hours. Then French People gathered at the Library for some opening or celebration of some sort. Then I went to a Beach party with the Baby-Docs and OzAid and NewZealand aid people. Very fun.

(10) Saturday - Hungout with Peace had movie nite 1... but need speakers to make it better.

(11) Sunday - Called my mom and gave her a poem for mother's day. Sat in lab and downloaded torrents for Peace Corps Friends. Worked on setup of lab computers

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Was a interesting week not having students around... the false positive visit of Len to my site to handle the slight mis-understandings that have arisen. Then the party with the new people... it was a fun week a little bizarre but what isn't in Vanuatu.