February 8, 2016

 I am almost positive there is a thing that happened today that I wanted to mention and have since forgotten. The feeling is strong. Oh well.

This morning I helped with literacy centers in one of the kindergarten classes. I got one of the oddest of odd ducks in my group and he was particularly annoying today. We were doing an activity that involved going around the table and taking turns and because he wasn't paying attention and was just trying to get attention, I skipped his turn, several times. And I don't think he was even aware of it. A couple of the other kids were even pointing it out to him but he seemed oblivious. Other than him it was a good group.

I got an email this morning from one of my classmates asking if I wanted to partner up for this week's assignment. It was the guy I was planning on asking if I was still without a partner later in the week so that worked out nicely. I worked with him last semester on the collection development policy analysis assignment that I made the music score presentation for. This is only a week-long assignment so it isn't a big project, but it is nice to know I'm with someone who will pull his own weight.

Keeping with the school theme, I emailed one of the librarians I have interviewed in the past to see if he could recommend a librarian for this semester's interview. We emailed back and forth a few times and he came up with two possible candidates. I only had the four required questions and a long list of possible questions and he said once I figured out the possible questions I could email them to both librarians, who are both electronic resource librarians but do slightly different things, and then whichever one can better answer the questions will be my interviewee. I went through the list of possible questions tonight and pulled out several so I'm going to email the list to the librarians tomorrow and we'll keep this ball rolling.

During some of my free time today I continued editing pictures for the sixth grade slideshow. I would like to be farther along at this point I've definitely made a decent start. I need to go through and make a list of who I still need pictures from so another note can be sent home.

I also started working on another slideshow for the principal who wants one by Friday made up of all the pictures she took at the recent STEM night at school. I was going to go super simple but then I decided I had a bit of time so started putting white borders around all of the pictures, which I almost had time to finish this afternoon. I also found a background science-themed image that I'm going to put one or two pictures on for each slide. Depending on how busy things get tomorrow I should be able to get all the slides made. I'm going to try Windows DVD Maker again, which I used for the football slideshow I made for the school librarian. And if that doesn't work out I will go back to my video editing program that I use for the sixth grade slideshow.

And again it feels like I'm forgetting something I did today so we'll pretend I wrote about it here.

Tonight, as I mentioned earlier, I decided on the interview questions that I want to ask. I also listneed to a bunch of music and picked out a few potential songs for the STEM slideshow. And I started looking at possible electronic resources to review for the partner assignment. I'm not sure if we should do an entire database, which would involve a lot of information, or if we should just pick a single journal from a database. I will probably make that decision tomorrow. The questions should be fairly simple to answer after the resource is locked down.

Tomorrow I would like to finish the STEM slideshow. Or at least get really close. I would also like to have a librarian lined up for an interview. And get the electronic resource finalized so I can start answering questions for the weekly assignment. But now, it is after eleven o'clock and hopefully I will be in bed by midnight. I think there is a good chance of that happening.