September 24, 2015

 My work day was primarily filled with work stuff. There were only two full tests scheduled along with a make-up time for one of the sixth grade classes. Not too long after testing was over in the morning one of the third grade classes came in. That was a bit of a circus. One of them needed to take a test so I had him in the back. The others were either supposed to be working on typing an assignment or doing Compass Learning. The ones typing needed to log off of the testing server and log in as them so they could save to the student drive. Trying to explain that concept was difficult. And trying to get them to only log off of the computer they needed and not all of them, creating more work for me later, was even more difficult. On top of that, the typing was group work so it was chaotic. And there was a substitute. He was actually the husband of the teacher. Later he came back and complimented me on how well I handled the kids and managed to stay calm. So that was kind of cool.

This afternoon I had kids come in to finish tests and that butted right up to the next class testing. For my schedule looking so open on paper it feels like I spent the majority of my day standing in the back of the lab waiting for kids to finish tests.

In my free time I updated my spreadsheet with all the scores I had written down. Next week I'll start going through the official scores to add in percentiles and start printing reports for the classes who have completely finished.

I also had a little time to design a button for my sister. I haven't made buttons in years but I got the idea a month or two ago when my sister sent me a picture of one with a funny saying on it. At first I made my own version in the form of a desktop wallpaper but today I turned that into a tiny button. I haven't actually checked to make sure my measurements were right but we'll find out when I make it sometime in the near future. Fingers crossed.

Tonight I finished creating the records for my metadata assignment. This was aided greatly by the Library of Congress website, which was back online after yesterday's outage. Now I just need to write up a reflection and I'll be done. I'm kind of thinking that won't happen until Sunday but we'll see how much time I have tomorrow. We don't have work but I imagine most of my day until I have to leave town will be spent reading all the stuff I didn't have a chance to read this week. At least the stuff for the class that is meeting this week. But I also want to sleep in a little. Hopefully not too much, though.