<strong>Grace Sonnabend</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2011/03/02

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

<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 8.5

<strong>The School: </strong>Fiske Elementary

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> General tech/troubleshooting; student project

<strong>URLS:</strong> <a href="http://www.photovisi.com">http://www.photovisi.com</a>

<em>username:</em>  Fiske  <em>password</em>: school123

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

I spent the majority of this week finishing up the collage project with my first two groups of students. I also attended to some small technical issues and updates on the side.

<em>Monday 2/28: </em>I worked first with the sixth grade and then with the fifth grade group to polish up the collages they had begun the previous week, in the interest of having a nice-looking final product by the end of this one. I discovered that unfortunately Photovisi does not let you go back and edit a collage once you have saved it, which meant that some of the kids had to start their projects over. It wasn't hugely time-consuming and they didn't seem to mind, but I think this is a bit of a drawback to using this software.

<em>Tuesday 3/1</em>: The students kept working on their collages. I asked the sixth grade if they wanted to take pictures and include them in their collages, but they didn't seem particularly interested and I had yet to install the camera software. Between groups, I set up the digital camera and the fifth graders took pictures of themselves to include in their collages (they were VERY enthusiastic about this.)  They didn't seem to mind restarting their projects.

A teacher asked me to look at another printer in room 310 which was not printing her documents (she did not identify a specific sort of error.) I attempted to get into the classroom between collage groups, but it was locked. Fortunately I met up with the same teacher on the way out and she agreed to leave me a key the next day so that I could look at the printer.

<em>Wednesday 3/2:</em>  Today the students finished their final collages and printed them out. The fifth grade was especially engaged and completed 2-3 collages apiece. Overall, the students seem happy with the final product. I was pleased by the polished look that was achieved, but I don't think I will be using Photovisi again due to the aforementioned issues.

I also had a look at the printer with unspecified issues in 310. After some basic troubleshooting manuvers (restarting/resetting, clearing paper jams, etc.) it was printing successfully as of 11a.m. today. I noticed that it displayed a paper jam error message when there was in fact no such jam. If this happens again, I recommend clearing the print queue and restarting the machine.

Next week I will be starting another round of collages, this time with 7th graders. I'm excited to keep teaching, and I hope they can finish their projects before I go on spring break!