Today already seems so long ago. I didn't have any scheduled testing
today but one of the third grade teachers found me at the beginning
of school talking to the librarian and wanted to send our very
thorough third grade friend. It took me awhile to get the access
codes but I went and picked up the kid and she spent the next two
hours testing. And because why not, the teacher sent her back after
lunch to continue testing. She got lucky and didn't have a four
stage of Math. Or so we thought. The principal sent me an email
after work saying that when a test is reactivated in the third stage
it can take up to a day for the four stage to show up. I have lost
track of how many kids we reactivated on the third stage and then
assumed they didn't have a fourth stage. There is still a chance
they don't have a fourth stage but they'll have to log back in so we
can find out. If this third grader ends up having a stage four then
that is at least another four hours of testing to look forward to.
Along with the sixth grader who also takes her time. Just when I
thought it was over.
The third grader was on a role with her Reading test but then slowly
but surely lost that momentum. It took her at least thirty minutes,
probably closer to forty-five or maybe even an hour, to answer the
final question. The second to last question was a short audio clip
describing how to boil an egg. The last question was putting the
five or six steps to boil an egg in order. That took her an absurd
amount of time because rather than listening to the audio track and
then quickly going to the next question and putting the steps in
order, she decided to transcribe the audio clip. She opened up the
notepad and listened to the audio over and over again, slowly copying
it down. It was incredible. I kept trying to get her to move on and
eventually got her to just look back at the last question and see if
she could at least put some of the steps in order with what she had
written so far. And she was able to do the whole thing because it
was super simple and she had listened to the audio clip god knows how
many times. Painful.
This afternoon was the kindergarten performance. It involved a
bedtime theme so they were all wearing their pajamas today, which is
always cute. Add in attempts at dancing and choreography and it is
adorable.
There was supposed to be another test in the lab this afternoon, not
a state assessment, but it didn't happen because the test wouldn't
load. At first I was annoyed because the lady showed up two hours
early to set up the test, and if the test was working that would have
been way too early. But then the test was broken. The lady called
tech support and got an international center with a poor connection
and a lady wasn't quite proficient in English. It was a painful
conversation to listen to, much like watching a third grader take a
test. The test lady repeatedly asked to speak to someone higher up
because along with not being able to understand what was being said,
the lady on the phone kept repeating the same possible fixes that
weren't an issue. The test lady was eventually passed on but then
gave the phone to me because she thought I would be able to follow
what the new guy was saying. I was able to but could only do so much
because I wasn't familiar with the test and I didn't have high enough
administrative privileges to do some of what he was asking. After an
hour of messing with it the lady had to cancel the test. She
eventually had her tech guy come, and then got the testing tech guy
back on the phone and had them talk. Her tech guy is a super loud
phone talker. He was sitting six feet away from me and it was really
tempting to cover my ears but I thought that might be rude. My mom
told me latter that at one point he was a coach, which makes sense.
I think in the end things were figured out at another school so the
lady came back and rescheduled the test in two weeks. Can't wait.
After work I went and picked up the second attempt at framing the
dwarf librarian drawing. It looked much better. And it was awkward
because I was being helped by another woman but the woman who didn't
do a good job the first time was right there. She said a few words
to the other woman but didn't even make eye contact with me.
Awkward. But the drawing looks good now. I sent a picture to the
guy who drew it, telling him it was going on my desk when I got my
first library job and that if I ever wrote a children's book he was
definitely going to be the illustrator. He really liked how it
looked in the frame and said I had his number whenever I came up with
a book idea.
My first new pair of Chucks came today. The light-ish green ones
with the light brown laces that look professional. I like them.
Soon, maybe early next week, my other two pairs should arrive.
Exciting times.
At work I did some research and came up with the electronic resource
I wanted to post about for this week's discussion post. I was able
to write that up and post it before dinner. Or maybe it was slightly
after dinner. Probably that one.
Also at work I had enough time to edit my video tutorial script and
when I did the math I shaved off about a minute. When I got home and
actually read through it I was actually down to five minutes and
forty seconds. That excludes the conclusion I still need to come up
with and the time-lapse. I spent a lot of time tonight figuring out
the layout. Rather than worrying about putting a transparent box on
the screen for the captions and potentially blocking stuff on screen,
I decided I would raise the bottom of the browser up to show the
black desktop and I can type the captions in there. I still have the
example flyer on screen and the notepad below it. I need to come up
with concrete objectives to put on the notepad so it's not just a
random blank notepad on the screen.
After coming up with the layout I wanted I eventually decided on how
I wanted to record the time-lapse. I wanted to figure out the
overall layout first because originally I was going to record the
time-lapse in that layout and it would look weird if I did it in a
slightly different one. In the end I decided to make the browser
full screen to record the time-lapse so it would be the main focus.
I recorded myself making the flyer and now I am working on speeding
it up. I just finished rendering out the first pass which got me
from around eighteen and a half minutes down to four and a half
minutes. Right now I'm rendering it again to get it down to just
over a minute. I won't know how fast I actually need to make it
until I finish the rest of the video but I also want to make sure it
doesn't look ridiculous going so fast. If it doesn't I'll have to
rethink the rest of the video. I'll know shortly.
I've got my meeting with the academic librarian tomorrow about my
possible practicum. I really hope that goes well because it would be
nice to have that figured out so I knew for certain my class schedule
was set for the summer. After that I kind of want to go buy jeans
but we'll see. I would also like to get home from the meeting and
get my video recorded. Having all Saturday to work on captions and
editing would be nice.
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