<div><strong>Your Name: Chris Furuya
</strong><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2006/01/19

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> TWF

<strong>Total hours for week: 7.25
</strong>

<strong>The School: Fuller
</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> thinktank/brainstorming session, tutorial with KidPix, flashcards with alpahbet, babysitting
<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

Tuesday's brainstorming session in FermiLab had free pizza at about the ratio of 1 pizza/person. More people should have showed up. But we talked about what it's like to be a CUIP, what could be done better, etc. I'm sure Mitch, Sarah, Eric, Russ (am I forgetting anyone? I'm sorry...) would still like to hear ideas, though.
The CUIP angle of my increasingly more NSP-only job is deteriorating; I've begun a new project to teach some first graders KidPix, but this was worked on the last hour or so of Wednesday only. The rest of Wednesday, was spent teaching one child who cannot yet recognize her own name, the alpahbet and penmanship, using flashcards and patience since computers are, in first grade, primarily toys.

Friday, the teacher failed to show up for her class because of a dentist's appointment, so the idea about pulling kids aside and teaching KidPix all day bust; I spent most of the day briefing the revolving door of subs about what had happened that day and the schedule I found on the teacher's desk, and making sure there was always a teacher in the room. I have established that one of the six computers in the room needs internet, three don't have Kidpix.
Whoever came up with the idea in the brainstorming session on Tuesday, to send out letters advertising what we are as CUIP-ers and what we do, is a genius. I'm doing that Monday. My e-mails to teachers aren't working, and the people who've set up blogs, don't use them- I need to find a way to do what I'm getting paid for.</div>