November 21-22

This week we only had school Monday and Tuesday due to fall break. On Monday, I was sent to a meeting at another school which lasted the entire day. On Tuesday students only came a couple hours and teachers attended district wide training for the rest of the day. So, needless to say, I wasn't able to do anything this week. 

November 14-18

I've been interested in learning how to connect and set up technology devices such as printers and projectors. In the past, when I came back from summer break my computer equipment had been disconnected and I always had to call our technology person to help me figure out which cords go where. I know how to hook up the computer and printer alone, but once you start adding other things like projectors, Elmos, and SMART Boards I get confused and have never had the opportunity to learn these simple skills. Since this would be my job duty if I decided to apply for an E.T. position one day, I figured what better time to learn this than now. Last week I expressed an interest in learning about this when talking to Mike so he taught me how to connect these devices this week. After learning, I was able to apply my new knowledge by removing some unwanted projectors and Elmos from teachers' classrooms. We sent an email out asking teachers to let us know if they weren't using their Elmos or projectors.Since we all have SMART Boards and no one needs a projector anymore, after I removed them from the classrooms, I put them in storage. Also, I removed Elmos from the classrooms that teachers no longer wanted. A few teachers responsed and said they wanted the Elmos. I was able to set up one classroom with an Elmo. I am glad I got to work on this throughout the week. Now I am able to make the "service runs" to remove or connect the different equipment.

November 7-11

Well, I was wrong about the SMART Response clickers. Our E.T. came to my room and thought maybe I had 14 classroom sets of clickers in my room from where I had been putting them together. I told him I didn't have any because as soon as I was done with a set, I traded it for another. We weren't sure where the other 14 sets were. We had to back track to see if we had passed them out to classroom teachers already. When the systems were shipped, they were placed in the warehouse behind our school. Our E.T. found that 14 sets had not been brought in to the school yet. So of course, I worked on putting the other 14 sets together. I still didn't get done, but hopefully we counted right and there will not be ANY more after these! :)

October 31 - November 4

This week was a continuation of last week. I worked on getting the SMART Response Clickers ready for classroom teachers to use. Last week, I thought I was working on putting together the last shipment of classroom sets. However, that was only the first shipment. Each set has 32 clickers that needs batteries and have to be labeled. This is all I worked on all week. I'm pretty quick with a screwdriver now! I think I'm down to the last couple sets, but I'm not positive if that was the last shipment. Every classroom teacher in our school will get their own set instead of having to share with their grade level teams.