I didn't start my morning by dumping a bag of chips on the ground
while making my lunch, so that was nice.
This morning at work I was supposed to help out with kindergarten
literacy centers but there were student teachers in the room so I
wasn't needed. I went into the other room, which was wrapping up
literacy centers to see if I could at least move the baskets over but
that wasn't needed either. Just so my walk to the other side of the
building wasn't entirely pointless I helped move the tables back to
the right spot. The teacher saw me doing that and asked if I had
been there the whole time and I made a comment about how I just
showed up to the move the tables. He said that he didn't know that
table moving was a service I offered and I told him it was a passion
of mine. On my way back to the lab I ended up walking with one of
the kindergarten parents and she told me that if I ever wanted to
move more furniture she had a few things I could move. That was
pretty funny.
I had one of the first grade classes in the lab before lunch and I
had a good conversation with the teacher, as always. We are very
similar when it comes to how we handled our academic lives. Very
much into procrastination and doing just enough to get a good grade.
We also talked about books, because her and her husband wanted to get
rid of all the clutter. He ended up pulling out her books and she
ended up pulling out his books, so they ended up not getting rid of
any books. Then we talked about high school reunions and her son
(who's my age) and other things.
After lunch I helped a second grader take a Reading Counts test. He
was the one from yesterday who ended up having his computer unplugged
in the middle of his test. Today he was testing over a different
book and I didn't see the book but I did see that he liked the book,
so he couldn't have done too bad on the test.
At 12:45PM I clocked out and headed up to the high school for my
meeting about being a trainer of teachers for Compass Learning. I
parked across the street from the high school and as I was about to
cross the street I heard someone say my name. I paused, and there
was a car that had stopped for me so I waved them along (and they
took awhile to figure that out) and looked to see who said my name.
Turns out it was a girl from the theater. She said she had just
gotten back from student teaching. Or maybe she was going to student
teach. I'm not too sure but she was headed to the high school so we
walked and talked. When we got up to the building we were greeted by
my friend's sister, who is a senior this year. I actually saw her
earlier today because she came to the school to give a presentation
to one of the classes about an animal. I'm not exactly sure why she
was standing out in front of the high school but whatever.
After I signed in I followed a few other people who were also going
to the meeting. The high school really looks nothing like it did
when I went there but I think the room we were in used to be a
bathroom. Like they knocked out the walls separating the boys and
girls bathrooms and created a small computer lab. I could be wrong
but there is no way to tell. Which is a lie but I'm not going to
look into it any further.
The meeting was actually really informative. I'm not used to going
to meetings and actually learning things. It's weird. It makes me
actually want to get more involved with the program and get teachers
to use it more productively, not just as a way to fill time. I would
say most teachers do use it productively at our school but
improvements can always be made. I also learned different reports I
can run to track progress and other things. I'm going to have to try
some things out. I'm glad the first grade teacher put my name out
there to become a trainer because I already help teachers out with
Compass Learning and it is nice to actually learn a few things the
official way rather than having to figure things out myself when a
teacher asks me a question.
The meeting ended up wrapping up around 3:15PM instead of 4:00PM so I
headed back to work. I got there when third grade was in the lab and
found out one of the kids hadn't been able to log into Type to
Learn 4. This is the same kid
who wasn't able to get in last time and I ended up having to add him
in and add another number to his lunch number (which is the username)
because his lunch number was already being used. That happened
earlier in the year and I discovered that at least on one occasion it
was because some other random kid in another school was already using
the number. Even though lunch numbers are unique. So after the
class left the lab last time I went through, school by school, and
ended up finding the kid at the school he was at earlier in the year.
Had I known which school he was at earlier in the year I would have
started there but whatever. I transferred him to our school and
added him to the right class, and thought all was good. Apparently
not.
I sat down and logged into Type
To Learn 4 and saw the kid and
added him to the class and then tried logging in as him but it said
his account was inactive. I went back in and tried creating a
different account for him and then tried other things and went around
and around trying different things. And then it turned out I was an
idiot. I found a little checkbox that would allow me to see the
inactive students and the kid popped back up. Then I noticed there
was a checkbox next to each kid that you could check to make a kid
inactive. I had clicked it accidentally when I was trying to
highlight the kid and save my changes. So I unchecked that box,
saved it, and was able to log in as the kid. Success.
Today I popped the battery off my
motherboard and awhile later I was able to check it with my
multimeter and the voltage seemed to be good. That kind of sucks
because that pretty much means my motherboard crapped out. I don't
know if I had a warranty on it but the ones I saw online were three
years and I hit the three year mark about five months ago. So I
would have been screwed anyway. Now I need to start researching
motherboards. Or rather, finish my schoolwork for the semester and
then research motherboards. The hardest part will be figuring out
which one will be compatible with my CPU. It seems confusing but I'm
sure I can figure it out. The next hardest part will be replacing
the motherboard because everything is attached to the motherboard so
I will have to take everything apart and then put it all back
together. Again, I'm sure I can figure it out.
Tonight I watched the Neebs
livestream and made no real progress on my reflective journal entry.
I thought about it a lot and have some ideas for where I want to go
with it but need to actually write it. I'm getting a grade based on
the thoughts once they are in word form, not when they're still in my
head.
I also need to read the chapters and
watch the lecture video for this week and write a discussion post by
Sunday. I keep forgetting that. I work at the theater tomorrow
night but don't have to work at the school so maybe during the day I
can knock out the reading and the video and write my discussion post.
And finish up the reflective journal entry. I would like to finish
the one I'm on and write another one over the weekend. At this point
that seems like a pretty lofty goal considering how long the current
one has drawn out.
Now I'm going to call it a night, at
least in terms of writing this entry.
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