The first half of my morning was spent going around the lab correcting the grammar and spelling of various children, a very tedious task to be sure. Once the children had left Sue Spry asked us for a new computer, so we loaded up a cart with a monitor, computer, and a variety of other odds and ends and rolled it over to the classroom. While doing this we realized that there was a good chance that we would soon run out of ethernet cords, something we had not expected when we made our first order of the things however we are down to just two or three.
Once the computer was set up Sue Spry also told us that she would need Microsoft Word installed on several computers. This was a problem as it would cost several hundred dollars, an expense we are unable to afford at the moment because of the incompetency of the government. However it was soon realized that if we were to simply install Star Office, an opensource word processor, we would allow her to have a word processing program on each computer without spending large amounts of money. While, unfortunately, we did not have enough time to install it today it is something we hope to accomplish next week.
During the last stretch of school miss Levinson came in and had her kids type about what they were passionate about. I went around with her and helped to correct kids' papers. One of them accidentally deleted his text while attempting to change the font and had done so much to try and fix it that simply trying to undo was no longer enough. I volunteered to sit down and type for him, however since the class had so little time left he had to go before it was done, so I finished it up, typed it out, and brought it over to the class. Thus ended my day at Rancho Elementary.
