Friday, January 29, 2016

January 29, 2016

 Today when I drove home from work it was 68 degrees outside and I had the windows down and the sun roof open. Next week we are supposed to get a lot of snow. The weather is an interesting thing.

I'm tired and today was fairly boring. Today was the last day for testing and I had two kids finish up this morning. This afternoon I had a sixth grader brought in by the principal to finish even though she normally tests outside the lab. She finished her Math test right as one of the second grade classes came in and even though she still had to take her Reading test I told her to take a break and come back when the second graders left. She never came back. I went and looked for her but couldn't find her so I said screw it. The principal even said it wasn't that much of an issue if she didn't finish the reading test (which she hadn't even started yet). So testing is done.

This morning I also proctored a geography bee test for the math enrichment teacher who was out of the building today. The girl who won the school geography bee had to take a test to see if she could go on to the state bee. The girl who won is also the sixth grader who takes forever on the MAP test and it is a good thing her teacher decided yesterday that she didn't have to finish the Math test because she wouldn't have had time to take the geography bee test today. I was a little worried because it was a timed test and she only had an hour to answer seventy questions. If that was a MAP test she wouldn't have made it to the double digits. But geography must be her thing because she answered all the questions in a half an hour. I was genuinely surprised.

When I wasn't testing and didn't have classes in the lab, I worked on spreadsheets. I made a lot of progress. Next week I should be able to print off all the reports for teachers and maybe finish my spreadsheets. I'm not entirely sure that will happen but we'll see.

Tonight I wrote my discussion post for my technology class. At work today I found a website that has a repository of links to free 3D printer designs, which I thought would be a great resource for libraries with makerspaces and 3D printers. So I went with that and two other resources that I believe were both in the book. Then I commented on a post in that discussion before hopping over to the discussion for my other class, answering a question someone had left on my post, and posting a comment on someone else's post. Post post post. I'll have to post again tomorrow and Sunday to make sure I get all the points for this week.

After that I hooked up my Nintendo 64 and played a race in Beetle Adventure Racing. The graphics look like crap, which I think is partially (or mostly) due to the TV but it was still fun. I had to stop after one race, though, because my left wrist and forearm started hurting. I really can't play games for too long with a controller anymore. It sucks.


The rest of my night was spent catching up on YouTube videos. And now I'm going to go to bed.

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