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

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2007/10/28

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

<strong>Total hours for week: 5 (6 if you count Next Steps)
</strong>

<strong>The School: Shoesmith</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Lab supervision

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>

This was my first week, so I didn't do a whole lot. Monday I went with Sara and got introduced to the assistant principal, the school, some of the teachers, and my school contact/general computer guy at the school, Mr. Willis. I learned I'm supposed to be working on teacher blogs for the 6th grade science fair, some literary review blogs, and just general blogs for updating the parents.

Wednesday and Friday I spent time in the lab helping Mr. Willis supervise his computer classes. I learned about Orchard, which is Shoesmith's math/reading/writing learning and testing software program and helped students with login problems and the like. I also spent some time experimenting with Wordpress to get myself ready to help the teachers with their blogs and looked at some of the Shoesmith teachers' blogs. I set up a time to meet with one teacher, Mrs. Coleman, about her literary blog next week on Friday- she wants to set up blogs for all of her students so they can write to each other about the books they read. The only problem I've run into is that on Friday, right before I was about to leave, 5 of the computers in the lab lost their network connection (network cable disconnected) and I reconnected the cables and rebooted the computers to no avail, so I'm wondering what else I can do about those on Monday.

<strong>(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale (here's a preview: one of the stage directions is "Exit, pursued by a bear") </strong>