Good news, all of the student information returned to Type To
Learn over the weekend. This
means I didn't have to manually enter in all the students. I only
needed to divide them back into classes, which didn't take me too
long. I also found out when the first class came in to use the
program, that I needed to change the password for everyone. I was
quickly able to do that for the class in the lab and then spent an
hour or two changing it for all the other kids in the school.
Apparently the default password is different this year and that
information wasn't sent out, along with the information that all the
students would be wiped and reset in the system. But now it should
be all good.
Later in the day I was able to go up
and finish installing the program on all the fourth grade laptops.
That still took about twenty to twenty-five minutes per laptop. Even
with as many as five laptops going at a time it still took me close
to two hours to put it on ten laptops. Tomorrow I'll be putting it
on three laptops for one of the second grade teachers. None of the
other teachers have expressed an interest in having it put on the
laptops in their room and I am perfectly okay with that.
I made another trip out to the
preschool trailer to help install SMART Board software. It gave me a
chance to walk on the new turf on the little kid playground and it
feels pretty cool. It also smells like a tire factory so hopefully
that goes away. I also didn't borrow a key from the secretary so I
ended up having to walk all the way around the building to the front
door to get back in. It would have been a nice walk if it wasn't
close to 100 degrees outside.
I worked with the Librarian to
relearn how to change staff passwords. That took longer than it
should have. The whole process is very convoluted and way less
intuitive than it should be. I think I figured out how to cut out a
few steps so that should be good. Hopefully one of both of us
remember how to do that for more than a day or two so we won't have
to learn it all over again.
We're still trying to figure out
guest access to the wi-fi for student interns. It kind of worked
last year but it wasn't great. So far this year it hasn't worked at
all. I played around with it a little today but I'm going to take my
laptop in tomorrow so I can mess with it some more. The problem with
school laptops is that you have to log into them with staff or
student information, which then automatically connects to the wi-fi.
Even if you disconnect and the reconnect to the wi-fi it will use the
information used to log into the computer, so we weren't able to try
the intern information. At least according to the instructions, the
Librarian has done everything correctly in setting up the username
and password, so who knows. I came up with the solution of just
using kindergartener login information, because it is relatively
simple, and the interns won't have automatic access to a
firewall-free internet, like they do with the guest network.
I started making sub charts today,
which are just pages for each class with the pictures and names of
all the kids in the class. These are helpful for substitute
teachers. I'm using school pictures from last year and then I'll
have to go around and take pictures for all the new kids, and the
kindergarteners considering they're all new.
I got the form that the principal
filled out when she nominated me for the award at the district
meeting. It makes me sound awesome, which is really cool. I don't
like a lot of public attention, so I'm glad I didn't win and have to
go up in front of everyone, but every now and then it is nice to hear
that all the work I do doesn't go unnoticed. It makes me feel good
inside and I really appreciate it. I'm a fan of feedback, whether
positive or negative, so I can continue doing what I'm getting right
and so I can fix what I'm doing wrong.
After school I went and got my
haircut and then I came home and started reading over the assignments
for my first class. There are only seven assignments, two of which
are just participation for the two weekends we go back to campus.
There aren't a lot of points to be earned which means a lot more
effort is going to be required to do well. I'm up for the challenge
but I'll admit it looks a little daunting at the moment. I'm not
sure about the second class because the new instructor just got
access to the online environment today and sent out a message that he
was hoping to have everything posted by the end of the week. Not the
best start.
Tonight I watched YouTube videos,
continued reading about the assignments, and wrote a little blurb
introducing myself to the class. A lot of them have already
submitted theirs and it seems like a majority have quite a bit of
experience working in libraries. I have very little. That is
intimidating but I also look forward to the opportunity of learning
from them and gaining more insight into the field from their
perspective on things.
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