September 15, 2014

Today was fairly uneventful. This morning there were two MAP tests and both went off without a hitch. There was a first grade and a second grade class and only a couple kids raced through the test. Everyone got scores though. This afternoon I had to test a fourth grader and a fifth grader out in the hall with laptops because one of the math enrichment teachers had the sixth grade class in the lab. Something I didn't realize when I agreed to having the kids come down. Normally it wouldn't be a problem but there are exactly enough computers in the lab for the massive sixth grade class this year and they were all here today. But it worked out alright in the end. I also had most of the first graders finish up their tests from last week during their lab time this afternoon.

While I was out in the hall with the kids testing I wrote some notes on the case study group project for one of my classes. At the end of the day I had a few minutes so I emailed “Ask a Librarian” on the local public library's website, basically asking how newspaper subscriptions work at a public library. Right after school I went and got a haircut and when I stopped by the old house to grab my Microsoft Office CDs, the librarian had already emailed me back. Her email was very informative and kind of solidified my idea that in the case, our solution should be to keep the most read newspaper. The local library does a cost per use thing twice a year by having people mark down every time they read a paper, which means the more people who read a paper, the less it costs the library. So not only are more people getting the benefit of the paper, the library is getting more out of their money. She suggested I contact some larger libraries to see how they do things, which I plan on looking into tomorrow.

After dinner I installed Microsoft Office on my laptop so I can work on Publisher and PowerPoint stuff for the group project, and I started reading the chapters for this weeks research discussion. Then I came over to the old house to watch some YouTube videos and look things up on the internet. And now, I'm going to go back to the new house and probably read some more before going to bed. Exciting stuff.