<strong>Your Name: Han Zhu</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/11/30

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M W  F

<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>

<strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Tech for Project, Project Culmination, Helping Teacher

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Sara asked me to post a summary of the progress of all my projects, so instead of doing my weekly report, I'll just do that (it'll include what I did this week)

Mrs. Cranley's class: I installed Photoshop on one of the lab computers and edited the photos I took of her students earlier. Then I installed Microsoft Office onto her functioning computer (the other one has frozen and I haven't had time to figure out what's wrong with it - I might not even bother because the other one is perfectly fine and she's getting a new computer according to Mr. Willis), showed her some tricks on Powerpoint and set up the slideshow. It was awesome to see the kids' reactions - they immediately gathered around the computer and started naming off the students in the pictures and the numbers they were holding. I also showed Mrs. Cranley how to print the slides as handouts and then did so - she's going to laminate them into a book, I think. I set up her printer onto that computer as well (it was originally connected to the now frozen computer). Future plans: slideshow pictures of the alphabet and colors. Also, I was thinking it would be cool to put up the slideshows on the shoesmith kindergarten blog (Sara, the numbers slideshow is on her desktop).

AR: After much time and effort, AR is fully functional (I think...). At least, it has all the students and classes updated. The problem is, I just found out today that the school is getting a new server next week, so Mr. Willis is trying to figure out how to save all of my hard work somewhere so all the database information isn't lost. The problem is that the person who originally installed AR on these computers really jumbled the setup and data files so it's exceedingly difficult to find anything in the AR folder. Any thoughts/help on this?

Mrs. Coleman's blog: I have no idea what is going on with this. I realized though, that putting all her students as users would still entail registering them, I think (which would mean they would still need individual email addresses, which brings us back to the original problem)

Ms. Lee's blog: I emailed her just two days ago asking if she needed help and she said she would be updating soon.Future plans: get mic to record her vocabulary, start plans in winter quarter to document on her blog her students' country projects.

Ms. Henderson's blog: She asked me today to update her blog with a holiday season image, so I did (take a look, it's quite a cheerful penguin). She plans on updating soon.

Other than that, not much has been going on. I installed Microsoft Office this week on the computers in the lab that didn't have them. I also helped a 3rd grade class get situated with Orchard for the first time and showed a teacher how to input grades into Impact. I would like to meet with more teachers about their blogs (Ms. Coffee, Ms. Walker, Ms. Corbin....), but there never seems to be enough time. I plan on emailing all the teachers with blogs and introducing myself and offering help - at least this way they'll know to contact me even if I don't get around to contacting them in person. I think I'll have some time next week as I do plan on working during finals week, and then I'll see what is left for winter quarter.

Happy studying!