Today wasn't too bad despite my lack of sleep. I even managed to get
out of bet when my alarm went off. Tomorrow morning I might try
running on the elliptical again because my knee hasn't locked up in a
couple days. We'll see.
Last night the school librarian texted me to see if I could edit some
pictures for her, so that is what I did when I got to work this
morning. They were pictures of her son's football team that she
wants to do something with, so I cropped them and made them look
better. I finished just as the first class came into the lab.
It was supposed to be a regular class but three of the kids needed to
take a test so it turned into testing, which bumped right up against
the first scheduled test of the day. That finished up before lunch
and I was able to complete a spreadsheet for one of the resource
teachers, and I fixed something on the gifted teacher's tablet,
before eating lunch.
When I was almost done with lunch one of the sixth grade teachers
came down and had a graph question in Excel. I knew there was a way
to do what he wanted but had to play with it for a bit to remember so
he left the laptop with me. Less than two minutes later I figured it
out and on my way to clock back in after lunch I dropped the laptop
off and explained how I did it.
Sometime later the Math Enrichment substitute in the sixth grade
teacher's room had a question about connecting a laptop to the
projector. That always seems to be finicky, and after messing with
it for a couple minutes with no results, I took the alternate route
of laying the iPad under the Elmo, as if it were a piece of paper,
and projecting that. It worked. I also answered another Excel graph
question before I left.
Before the next test I nearly finished the worksheets I was making
for the resource teacher. I made r-controlled word worksheets for
her a week or so ago and she wanted more words so I came up with some
more. My favorite was “perspire”, which I doubt any of the kids
will know but it will give them a chance to learn it.
The next test was second grade and they had some speed demons so
several of them will be coming back tomorrow to retake one or both
parts of their test. Hooray. When they were almost done a sixth
grader came down to work on her test. She's the one who seems
determined to set a new record for how long it takes to finish.
She's probably got around two hours invested in the math test and
she's on question 10. She'll need to kick it in gear because the
testing window closes at the end of next week and the test has
fifty-three questions.
Tonight I started working on my metadata assignment and I made pretty
decent progress. I finally decided on the five resources and started
the actual document, putting in each of the resources and citing them
using APA style, hopefully correctly. Then I began creating the
table for the metadata record for the first resource, a journal
article. I'm pretty close to being done with it but it's slow going.
I would be completely lost without the example the professor gave
us. I'm constantly having to switch between several different
browser tabs, looking up terms and vocabularies and syntax and name
authorities and the list goes on. It would have been nice if I
started working on this earlier. It's due on Sunday and I imagine
that will be here before I know it. Especially with all the other
work I need to finish. I'm still somewhat confident that I can get
everything done, so I'm not too stressed out. Just mildly. A mild
but constantly nagging level of stress. It passes the time.
Now I'm going to go to bed so I can wake up and see how much I can
get done tomorrow. I heard back from my partner with more stuff to
add to the presentation so that will be on the agenda for tomorrow
along with more metadata. It would be nice if I could do the
presentation stuff at work but I can't remember how many tests I have
tomorrow. I'll hope for the best.
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