Your Name: Erin

Today’s Date: 2007/03/04

Day(s) worked or described: M W

Total hours for week: 5

The School: Till

Kind of Work: Project Execution, Tech General

Main Report or Narrative: On Monday I met with Mrs. Sudduth to see if she needed any work done in the lab, but she had no particular project in mind. It's nice to see that an extra table has been added to alleviate the overcrowding-- that's just the sort of geometry that needed to happen. I helped Ms. Shoppman with some printer trouble (a persistent paper jam, nothing too exciting). I spent some time cleaning up my edit of the WordPress theme <i>Blix</i>, (my main project was making posts alternate colors because some of the students were adding comments on the wrong posts because they couldn't tell where one ended and the next began, but also a lot of other cleanup) so I suppose I'll package that up as an official CUIP edited theme when I've got a chance? 
On Wednesday I tried to sort out the files that Mrs. Jacobson's afterschool students had left in the Book Previews folder. I didn't get to unravel everything, but I suspect that they don't quite grasp the filename concept and have been overwriting their data by making two different audio files and giving them the same name. The quality of recordings also seems to have decreased a bit since the mechanics of the project have been put entirely in students' hands-- whether this is because of a technical problem, a lack of motivation from an authority figure, or just that I haven't found the right files yet is something that I'll have to investigate. The book club blog, though, seems to be working at just the right level for students-- they're really getting the hang of doing their responses.

In my time away from Till, I've been weeding through the hefty collection of WP themes we've amassed, reviewing them for project compatibility, cross-browser functionality, and whether they use ugly colors. Expect a long report back sometime soon.