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

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/5/29

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong>  T  Θ F

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

<strong>The School: Shoesmith
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<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Helping Teacher, Lab supervision

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Being that this is my last week at Shoesmith (finals week starts for me next week, unfortunately, rather than in 2 weeks), I'm going to do a report on everything that can be continued on with Shoesmith.

-New Teacher blogs: This namely pertains to Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Merrick, Mrs. Reynolds, and Mrs. Nolen-Patrick. I think Ms.  Gates or Mrs. Watson told the teachers to use blogs a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, it was a bit late in the game, as there's not much to do now that it's the end of the year. They all have blogs set up, but they don't remember their passwords. If there could be follow-up over the summer or near the beginning of next school year, I think all of these teachers could end up having viable blogs next year. I created pages for Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Merrick on the shoesmith website because there were supply lists and welcome letters that they wanted up, but I can't get access to their blogs, so I just put it on the shoesmith website. These could be transitioned to their blogs later on though.

-The Buzz student magazine blog: They're progressing along quite well. I don't ever get to meet with them because of time conflicts, so Mr. Willis relays their problems to me and I fix them when I get in. I think they could benefit from some technical assistance for the rest of the school year and next year as well, though.

-Shoesmith website: There's always so much going on at Shoesmith and a lot of it doesn't get shared with parents/students. I think enough people visit the  website (I put a hits counter on there to track viewers) to justify updating it regularly next year and actively seeking out Shoesmith events and activities to put on the website. This would require some collaboration between next year's CUIP student and the administration, just so the student is aware of everything going on with Shoesmith.

-Mrs. Cranley's blog: Mrs. Cranley wants to know if her blog will still be around next year even if she's not at Shoesmith (that is, of course, not certain but definitely still a secret). I think she wants to use a lot of the things on there as reference so she can start her own blog if she's not at a school that CUIP is at (yay! I call that a success).

-Besides these, next year I think Ms. Lee and Mrs. Coleman could do with  continuing on having blogs as well (I'm sorry about Mrs. Coleman's blogs - those just got away from me in the end). Furthermore, I think it would be good to make more of an effort to have administrators publicize the blogs to parents more. This year it was a lot of individual efforts on the part of the teachers and myself, but it would be nice if the school made it known to the parents. In any case, knowing that the blogs were being used would be an incentive for the teachers to actually make use  of their blogs (I think that was a problem this year - the feeling that "oh, why am I spending my time doing this if nobody is viewing it?") 

Ok, that's all for me, I think. Thanks CUIP for a great year of work - I've enjoyed my time here and at Shoesmith and it's been an awesome experience overall. Have a great summer, everyone!                                           