Winter MAP testing is officially over. Right as school started this
morning I went and got two first graders from one class, and a third
from the other class, and got them started on finishing their tests.
Shortly after that one of the second grade classes came to the lab to
practice typing, and so a few of them could finish tests. And that
was everyone, minus one first grader who hadn't been at school all
week, including today. I'm calling it a success.
I spent a little time working on my MAP spreadsheets today but spent
more time working on storybooks. I'm so close to being done. Sort
of. Not really. But I'm getting there. One other productive thing
from today was figuring out a workaround for Reading Counts on the
third grade laptops. Whenever they would try to open the program
they would just get a big white screen. It is Flash driven so I
tried updating that but it didn't help. After a lot of Googling I
found something off topic sort of but it ended up working. The post
I found was about trying to watch internet videos fullscreen and
getting a white screen, even when the video worked fine when it
wasn't fullscreen. Reading Counts was doing the same thing because
it worked just fine in a small, windowed mode, but not fullscreen.
The solution to the problem was right-clicking somewhere in the
Reading Counts window, clicking on Settings, and unchecking hardware
acceleration. Or something like that. This change worked and seemed
to be persistent so if you make the change, it will still be in
effect the next time you log in. The only problem is I couldn't
figure out how to make this a broad change, for all users on a
computer. So every time a kid logs into a laptop for the first time,
they will need to go through all the steps. It's not a great fix but
it is a decent bandage.
This morning I did the mouth swab thing for the genealogy test and
after school I dropped it off at the UPS store. They are sending it
off tomorrow morning and in a month or so I should get a notification
that everything has been analyzed. Part of me feels like it could be
complete bullshit and I would never know, but it is through National
Geographic, not an ad in the
back of a comic book. I am intrigued. Certainly enough to pay the
money for the kit in the first place.
At work tonight it was the same old
thing. I made a lot of progress in my book, coming close to
finishing it. I probably could have finished it but I got sent home
early and I spent about forty-five minutes of my night watching the
first half of That Awkward Moment.
And I had planned on watching the second half during the last set
but then got sent home early because I wasn't really needed and the
snow was coming down pretty good outside and the managers didn't want
to keep me there.
When I got out to my car there were
about two inches of snow but it was cold enough out that their wasn't
any melting going on, and I was able to just brush it off my car. I
also drove home without turning the heat on in the hopes that I would
melt any of the snow to my windshield. That way hopefully I won't
have to worry about scraping ice off my car in the morning. I also
put my windshield cover on so hopefully that stays on.
I was originally scheduled to close
tomorrow night but I switched with the other projectionist (who is
also a student intern at school now) because she had plans. This was
a bit of a raw deal to begin with because I was supposed to come in
at eight o'clock for a special show. But then the managers changed
their minds so I don't have to be there until 11:45AM, closer to when
the rest of the movies actually start.
And lastly, speaking of the
projectionist / student intern, last week she accidentally started
Wolf Of Wall Street
instead of Frozen.
From what I've heard the opening scene of Wolf Of Wall
Street isn't very
child-friendly, and a whole theater of children saw it.
Understandably, a lot of parents were upset, and corporate got a lot
of complaints. This lead to a new policy, rolled out nation-wide
(and written by one of our managers) that basically states that a
manager has to be present when a projectionist is switching from an
adult movie to a kids movie. And I say 'basically' because I didn't
actually read it, I just signed my name. In the end, it was a pretty
big mistake, but she ended up causing a new policy to be enacted and
leaving her mark on the company. Not bad.
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