I planned on working on my infographic most of the day but I ended up
being fairly busy at work today. This morning I had second grade
reading groups and then both second grade classes in the lab. During
one of the reading groups, I was out in the hall reading a story with
three kids. They were all messing around but not as bad as my small
group two years ago. At one point one of them told the other two
that he didn't want to have to come in at recess to read so they
needed to stop messing around. I looked at him and said “Says the
man tossing his pencil around.” He looked back with an
I-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about grin as he tossed the pencil
off to the side and out of his reach. It was pretty funny.
Speaking of second grade, I can't remember if I mentioned it before
(so I'll mention it again if I have) but I beat a second grader at
the 'why' game last week. He kept asking 'why' and if eventually got
around to why I had to work at the school (because I need money).
When he asked why I needed money my response was that I lived in
capitalistic society and needed money to buy things. That threw him
off because he couldn't really say 'capitalistic society' and not too
long after that I somehow managed to turn it around so when he was
asking 'why' he was actually asking it of himself. I wish I knew how
I managed to do that because it would come in handy.
Right as I clocked out for lunch the librarian found me and asked if
I could come help her get ready for her final presentation for her
Library Science degree. It is kind of like the capstone project that
I will have to give, summarizing everything that I learned. She was
giving it through Google Hangouts to a three-person panel using a
Google Presenter slideshow. One of the fifth grade teachers helped
her figure out the slideshow because she wasn't familiar with
Presenter, but they were both kind of stumped with Hangouts. I have
watched several hangouts on YouTube but never actually tried it
myself. The librarian wanted to know how to get the presentation to
show so that the panel could see it. I messed with it and didn't
really get anywhere so I tried some googling and found a possible
solution but the presentation was in fullscreen mode so we couldn't
really tell if someone on the other end would actually see it or not.
I ended up going down to get my laptop so I could join the hangout
and get the other perspective. This meant I had to figure out how to
join a hangout, and in the end I wasn't able to because I think even
though it wasn't a private hangout, it didn't technically start until
two o'clock. I thought maybe people wouldn't actually be allowed in
until that time. So I tried setting up my own and inviting the
librarian. That took longer than it should have but after a few
failed attempts I eventually got it working. We then opened up a new
hangout on her computer so we could make sure her microphone worked
and that the presentation was going to work. And it did.
That all took around an hour and a half. But we got it working,
which eased the librarians nervousness a little bit but not much.
About fifteen minutes before the presentation the fifth grade teacher
stopped by to check on things and give the librarian a little pep
talk. As soon as the first panel member joined the hangout, the
fifth grade teacher and I left.
I went down to the lab to finally eat my lunch and about ten or
fifteen minutes later I got a call from the librarian because the
lady couldn't see her presentation when she opened it up. So I
briskly walked back down to the library and got it sorted out. I
think I suggested the same thing the librarian had already tried but
it ended up working and I sneaked out to go finish my lunch.
About forty-five minutes later I her excited shouting outside the
computer lab and went out to see what was up. The librarian had
originally been told that 30-50% of people usually have to redo at
least part of the presentation so that had her worried from the
beginning. But, the presentation (content-wise if not
technology-wise) and she passed with flying colors. The panel lady
told her right then, which is pretty cool. I found out later that
the other two panel members hadn't been able to connect so it ended
up just being the one lady. Anyway, the librarian survived the
presentation, earned her degree, and gave me a big hug to thank me
for getting everything sorted out. She later went up to the third
floor to tell the fifth grade teacher and they both screamed and
jumped up and down.
After school I went straight to the old house to work on my
infographic. I decided at some point, maybe last night in bed, I
can't remember, that I couldn't just do disinformation because that
was basically just restated the information transfer cycle but in the
context of disinformation. Instead, I went with Operation Mincemeat,
which I think made a lot more sense and was more in-line with what
the actual assignment was. So I started going through each step,
relating it to Operation Mincemeat. Some of them felt like a bit of
a stretch but I think I managed to get everything somewhat sorted
out, while watching the documentary once again to get the facts
straight.
I finished that bit up after dinner and then started going through
the process of copying the text and pasting it into a text box I made
in Gimp with the correct size for the inside of the frames on my
infographic and with a transparent background. I'm fairly certain it
is impossible to make the text small enough using the infographic
websites' text boxes, so I was having to go through this process to
make the text small, then saving it has a png file and uploading it
to the site so I could drag it onto my infographic. I had to go
through the same process for my reference list as well. And speaking
of, it is almost impossible to find out how to write the reference
for a physical dictionary. I found four or five versions for citing
online dictionaries before I stumbled across one for an actual book.
It still seems kind of made up.
When I got all that stuff added in I remembered that all the examples
had the person's name and information and I hadn't really left room
for that. It took me awhile to figure out how to put it in so it
didn't look too awful. It would have been super easy if there was a
way to adjust the size of the document or copy all my information
onto a larger document, but I managed. It still kind of looks a bit
tacked on but I'm going to live with it.
And now it is after midnight. Way too late for my weeknight blood.
Especially because I plan on voted before school tomorrow which means
leaving the house about fifteen or twenty minutes earlier than usual.
Tomorrow morning is going to be rough.
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