There was more testing today, no surprise there. There were three
scheduled tests, two in the morning and one in the afternoon, along
with a few stragglers here and there. Nothing worth mentioning
happened.
When there wasn't testing I worked a little bit on my metadata
assignment. I didn't have a lot of time but I made a little
progress. Which I had to redo when I got home because it wouldn't
upload on Dropbox.
Near the end of the day the second grade classes were together
watching a movie but they could only get sound out of the small
projector speaker, which was too quite. I was in the lab with a kid
testing and a few other kids working on an assignment so I had to
have one of the second grade teachers come watch the kids in the lab
so I could go look at the sound issue. They were watching a VHS but
the teacher only had computer speakers that couldn't plug into the
DVD/VCR. I had the thought of plugging the computer speakers into
the projector, so I got up on a stool and tried it but it didn't
work. I was pretty sure it should work but I was surrounded by
second graders who were all talking to each other about not being
able to hear the movie. And they couldn't hear the movie because
they were all talking to each other.
I eventually went back to the lab and told the teacher I had failed
but said I would go back after school and look at it. And when I
went back, I tried the exact same thing, and it worked. No idea why
it didn't work when I needed it to. After a little testing it turns
out the sound for the computer also goes through the speakers when
they're plugged in up there (at least I'm pretty sure), so I wrapped
the cords around the speakers and left them on top of the projector.
It's a real MacGyvered setup at the moment, especially with the
extension cord strung along the ceiling that is held in place with
paperclips. That was the hopefully temporary solution of the guys
who installed the projector on the ceiling. As long as it works, I
guess.
After work I got Chipotle and a Powerball ticket before heading home.
My journey went a lot smoother than last week. No roadblocks this
time around.
My burrito was wrapped terribly and it didn't taste as good as last
week but we can't win 'em all. It just make the good ones that much
better. I showed a lot of videos after dinner before departing to
work on schoolwork.
I was making good progress on my metadata assignment but then the
Library of Congress website for subject headings and authority names
stopped working. A major chunk of the assignment relies on finding
the official subject headings and names for people. So I was kind of
boned. I kept working on the other fields and checking back on the
Library of Congress site but it never came back online. It was
pretty frustrating. I ended up filling in all of the fields I could
for all five of my resources, and I put in possible entries for
things I will need to verify with the LOC site at some point. If the
site starts working again I should be able to finish all the records
tomorrow. Then I need to do some other stuff, like summarize stuff,
maybe, I don't know. But I'm nearly done with it. Which is good.
I got an email from my group partner tonight with his suggested edits
to the presentation. He was also concerned about time and it looks
like his suggestions cut out a majority of the presentation. The cue
sheet I sent him was five and a half pages and the one he sent me was
just over a page. So I'll need to wrap my mind around that and see
if I can get it sorted out. Now it seems way too short but he's a
talker so we'll see. It would be nice if I could finish that in my
free time at work tomorrow, but I again can't remember how many test
there are. Maybe three. Hopefully I'll have some free time.
Now I'm going to watch a YouTube video and then go to bed. Hooray
for sleep.
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