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.