Friday, August 5, 2016

August 8, 2016

`This morning I woke up, got ready, and headed to campus for my practicum wrap-up meeting. I think it went well. My supervisor showed me her evaluation of me and it was pretty good. We also talked briefly about the assessment project, she gave me the ten scavenger hunt questions the picked so I can use Google Forms to create the scavenger hunt, and we talked about some random stuff. She also liked the bookmarks.

On my way home from campus I drove by one of the houses I have looked at online. I'm pretty sure it is out of my price range but it looks cool and I was curious about the garage, which is detached and behind the backyard. When I drove by it was maybe a double garage, certainly bigger than a single, but the door looked like it was about to fall off and there was just a grass slope leading up to it from the road. Good to know. Speaking of my price range, sometime in the near future I might go to the bank to see how big of a loan I could get, and I might talk to a financial guy to see how much I should spend on a house, if any at all.

At work today I did things. I made a sign for the Staff Picks display. It was just a bunch of book covers lined up but it turned out looking really good when it was printed. I came up with some class title ideas and a description for the lady who primarily teaches one-on-one tech classes. They recently changed the design and layout of one of our ebook and video sites and she wants to teach a class going over the changes. She wanted help with the title and description, hence my work today. I also made something that could be a handout, that is basically all the information the site posted talking about the changes.

I also helped patrons today. Another librarian and I helped a woman download books to her iPad. I helped patrons on the phone with interlibrary loan and the state library. I helped people print. And the best interaction was probably looking up information for an old man on Ancestry.com about his mother. I really only had luck finding a census record from when she was three years old and ten years old. But, if we did in fact find the correct person, the man learned that his mother was actually born in Tennessee and moved to Kentucky sometime before her third birthday. He had thought she was born in Kentucky. It was pretty cool looking into that stuff. I just wish I had more time and that I had a better idea of what to do on the site. I did a decent job but I feel like I could have done more.


Tonight I finished responding to all my classmates that posted comments about my group website. So that class is done. My capstone is also done, unless there is something I'm forgetting, but I don't think I am. That only leaves the practicum. I was going to submit my self-evaluation tonight but now I need to edit it to include the fact that I am actually making the scavenger hunt with Google Forms. Before I thought I was just doing the question portion but I guess not. I can probably knock that out tomorrow, so no big deal, I just need to re-word part of my evaluation. Then I can turn that in and be officially done with at least the school part of my practicum, which means I'll be done with school. And that is cool. I'm going to open up my skateboard tomorrow night and that makes me happy.

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