Today there was more testing. I forgot that the first class was done
testing so I had a little bit of a reprieve first thing, which
allowed me to get the sheets put away and mentally prepare myself for
a day of testing.
It also gave me a chance to check to see if Canva was working. I
checked on my work computer and it was fine. I also brought my
laptop and when I checked on it, Canva was still not working in
Chrome, but it did work in Firefox. I can't remember but I don't
think I checked Firefox on my laptop yesterday. I do know that it
wasn't working in Firefox or Chrome on my desktop. Having it
narrowed down to only one browser on my laptop led me to believe it
was browser-related so I started digging around. I cleared cookies
and the cache and even signed out of the browser just in case. That
stuff didn't work. Then I dug a little deeper and when I looked in
the exceptions it showed that Canva was blocked. What the crap is
that about? I had been working on it all day and then in the time it
took me to eat dinner it suddenly became blocked. So very weird.
When I got home I checked and it was blocked. After deleting that it
worked fine. A frustrating relief.
There were two tests this morning back-to-back leading up to lunch.
Earlier in the morning one of the kindergarten teachers brought me
her new iPad. Over the weekend she kept getting a pop-up asking for
my password, which is super strange because I had never even touched
her new iPad. Her old iPad used to be mine and after I wiped it and
gave it to her she would occasionally get a pop-up asking for my
password. I think it eventually stopped happening but I don't know.
At least when that happened it made sense because that iPad used to
be in my possession. This new iPad, however, was a bigger mystery.
I did a lot of searching and it seemed one possibility involved apps.
If someone downloads an app, even a free one, then gives the iPad to
someone else and the new owner downloads the same app, there is a
chance that the iPad will associate the app with the old owner, so
when there is an update for it the iPad will ask for the old owner's
password, even though it was downloaded by the new owner. It's
stupid. Near the end of the testing in the morning I figured all
this out and was able to sign in as me and find out which apps I had
that the teacher had. Turns out there was just one, The Weather
Channel. I deleted it from my account, logged out, logged in as the
teacher, deleted the app from her account, and re-downloaded it. I
restarted the iPad and waited for awhile, checking it periodically,
and the pop-up for my password didn't show up again. So I think I
fixed it. Time will tell.
This afternoon I had one class in the lab and then the rest of the
afternoon was testing. One of the third grade classes came in to
test at 1:30PM and one of the kids was in there until the end of the
day. And she didn't finish the section she was on. After the
assembly, which I didn't get to go to because of the continuous
testing, the long-testing sixth grader came back to work on her tests
and two third graders came back to finish their remaining stages. It
was a long afternoon.
I was productive during the tests today. Someone people talk about
having shower thoughts. I have testing thoughts. There is a lot of
time for me to just stand there and get lost in my head. This
morning I came up with an idea for how to make my tutorial go faster.
Rather than going step-by-step through the making of my flyer, I
think I'm going to spend time explaining each of the different
sections of the site, how to add things to a project and edit them,
and then timelapse through the actual making of my flyer. It
shouldn't be a tutorial on how to make a specific flyer, it should be
a tutorial on how to use the website. The flyer is just an example
of what can be made with the site, so I need to focus less on that
and more on the functionality of the site. Makes sense and I was
kind of missing that yesterday.
This morning the music teacher asked me if I could come up with
clever or ironic alternatives to “healthy choices” because she
and some friends are getting together to support each other in making
healthy choices. I came up with several throughout the day but I
have two favorites. The first is “vegetables before
confectionables”. 'Confectionables' is not a word but I like it.
The second one is “et tu, brownie?” A classic.
I also had a genius idea for the library flyer project I'm working on
at the public library. Rather than making little dots on a physical
map and figure out a route that way, why not use Google maps. I
didn't know how that would work out but it seemed like a good idea in
my head. Near the end of the day when there were only a few kids
testing I got on a computer in the back row to test my theory. Turns
out you can make custom maps. You can also import addresses in an
Excel spreadsheet, which is great because I already have all of those
typed up already. I did a test with just one entry and it worked
perfectly. You can also create different layers, which is perfect,
because now there can be one layer for the whole town, one for each
section of town, one for the “important” locations, and whatever
else. Each layer can be a different color and have their own routes,
both for driving and walking. The PR lady emailed me and thanked me
for helping out on Saturday and said I could take the afternoon off
because of all the time I put in Saturday. I decided to take her up
on that because I needed to talk to the school librarian after work,
take my drawing back to the frame shop, and maybe work on my
tutorial. I told her my idea for the map and she said she would look
into it if she had time this week and if not we could start on it
next week.
So after work I talked to the librarian and went to the frame shop.
That was a little awkward because I had the same lady I talked to
originally and it turns out she was the one who framed the drawing.
So I was pointing out all the things I didn't like and she was the
one responsible. Awkward. I tried to defuse that awkwardness by
saying having my things framed there had raised my expectations
really high. I think it worked. Maybe.
When I got home I didn't work on my tutorial because my head was
feeling weird. Near the end of the day at work I started feeling
light-headed. Whenever I would move my head just right it felt like
the world was about to start spinning. Or maybe I was just gaining
the ability to perceive how fast the Earth is actually rotating on
its axis. Either way, I wasn't enjoying it. The feeling persisted
when I got home and it did not lead to productive things.
After dinner I still didn't work on my tutorial because of the head
thing but I did eventually create a logo for my tutorial using
Hexels. It is a 3D-looking cube with an 'L' on the left face, a 'T'
on the right face, and on the top it says 'library tutorials'
embossed in Morse Code. I think it looks pretty cool. It gave me a
chance to be lazy but also productive, if that makes sense.
My head is still bothering me and it is late and I need to go to bed
and this entry took way too long to write. I'm going to bed.
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