Today was very typical with not much out of the ordinary happening. Ms. Dee, Ms. Garavante, and Ms. Jones all came in with their classes today, and Ms. Spry sent a few kids to work on their state projects near the end of the day.
The only thing that was new today was the fact that the kids in Ms. Garavante's class were trying to print certificates from Math Blaster, here two possible things could happen. The first was that pressing print button prompted them to save the certificate not print it. The student then had to quit Math Blaster so they could open my documents where they had saved the certificate. The most puzzling thing at first was the fact that the files were saved in a format that caused the icon that is given to things one does not have the proper applications to open. However when you double clicked the icon it opened it as it would a normal jpg, one could then enter the photo printer wizard and print it out. The second thing that could happen made things simpler. A window would pop up with the image in it and one could skip the steps of closing math blaster and opening the image.
Despite the fact that I attempted to give a demonstration I had to help every single person who wanted to print, mercifully it was only a class of twenty and not all of the students needed to print. Beyond that there wasn't really anything of significance.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Week 13
We started out with Ms. Spry's class creating graphs using this site: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx . It wasn't particularly hard so most of the kids soon had the hang of it. One student's graphs simply would not work and while we are not sure of exactly why it happened we suspect it was because of an old version of Flash. After they created graphs concerning things such as the number of people in certain age ranges in particular states we had them save the graphs so that we could later print them in color.
We also had a young man named Michael come in and he dictated a paper of his to me as I typed it. Along the way I made suggestions such as putting events in chronological order and double checking the facts to make sure they were all correct. After about ten minutes we finished up and that was that.
Before we headed out to lunch a parent named Anita who has been put in charge of moving files from the rastudent account to the student's accounts. The problem was that they could not open the files because they did not have proper permissions. We figured out that saving the files again with a slightly different name applied the proper permissions. I then went and looked up how print screen works so that we would be able to have screen shots of each folder containing files with improper permissions.
When we came back it was time for Ms. Stanek to come in and have her students do research on various spanish missions in California. Some of the kids' browsers could not open the page where you sign in to google so they could not access bookmarks. At first we tried to remedy this by moving them but when that did not work we simply entered the URL manually.
Finally Ms. Kreuzberger came in, it was a largely uneventful class, I found a network driver for an Optiplex gx260 while her kids did accelerated reader and played mathblaster. All in all one of the more eventful days we've had at rancho.
We also had a young man named Michael come in and he dictated a paper of his to me as I typed it. Along the way I made suggestions such as putting events in chronological order and double checking the facts to make sure they were all correct. After about ten minutes we finished up and that was that.
Before we headed out to lunch a parent named Anita who has been put in charge of moving files from the rastudent account to the student's accounts. The problem was that they could not open the files because they did not have proper permissions. We figured out that saving the files again with a slightly different name applied the proper permissions. I then went and looked up how print screen works so that we would be able to have screen shots of each folder containing files with improper permissions.
When we came back it was time for Ms. Stanek to come in and have her students do research on various spanish missions in California. Some of the kids' browsers could not open the page where you sign in to google so they could not access bookmarks. At first we tried to remedy this by moving them but when that did not work we simply entered the URL manually.
Finally Ms. Kreuzberger came in, it was a largely uneventful class, I found a network driver for an Optiplex gx260 while her kids did accelerated reader and played mathblaster. All in all one of the more eventful days we've had at rancho.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Week 12
Today was a typical day at Rancho, for all it was on a different day of the week than normal. Ms. Robles, Ms. Garavante, Ms. Stanek, and Ms. Rich all came in in to work. Whiles Robles, Garavante, and Rich wanted only games such as Type to Learn and Mathblaster Ms. Stanek was asking her kids to write to homeless children.
Her kids were apparently giving a stuffed animal and a letter to said homeless children; the letter had to be done in the traditional format of a letter which meant many of the children required extensive help. The letter was simple, saying that they were giving the homeless child stuffed animal x and then they would list the things they could do with the stuffed animal to have fun.
After this I visited Ms. Spry's room to set up a new computer as one of the ones she was using was randomly dying. It was a simple matter of plugging it in and making sure all the basic features worked.
Her kids were apparently giving a stuffed animal and a letter to said homeless children; the letter had to be done in the traditional format of a letter which meant many of the children required extensive help. The letter was simple, saying that they were giving the homeless child stuffed animal x and then they would list the things they could do with the stuffed animal to have fun.
After this I visited Ms. Spry's room to set up a new computer as one of the ones she was using was randomly dying. It was a simple matter of plugging it in and making sure all the basic features worked.
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