Melissa Weihmayer
Murray Language Academy
4/15-4/20
2 hours Monday, 2 hours Wed, 2 hours Friday
Tech Assistant

This week began with the second installment of our Audacity/MovieMaker project. I was creating the example/template for the kids, this time moving on from poetry to advertisements geared towards the 3rd graders, I believe. First of all, I would just like to say that I would have LOVED to be a third grader doing a project like this. In fact, I loved being a 13th grader doing this project. I advertised sunglasses and recorded my voice and superimposed it with pictures. Pretty sweet. The rest of the week was a bit tedious in comparison, as I discovered the wrath of the Chicago Public School beaurocratic system. I had to inventory the 27 seemingly unused computers in the old language lab, recording just about everything one would ever want to know (and far beyond) for each monitor and computer. Joe Mills is trying to distribute the older computers to other schools in the area since Dell is donating more computers to Murray, meaning that they need all this ridiculous information to keep tabs, I presume. In the meantime, it gives me experience making Excell data charts, which is a good thing to get used to. I would like to spend more time with the kids in the lab, as i am beginning to make some great friends and they seem to like having me around (they especially like the one-on-one attention), so I should be doing more of that next week. Happy Friday.