<strong>Your Name</strong>: Erin
<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2006/11/05
<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T θ F
<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>8
<strong>The School: </strong>Emmett Till
<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Project preparation and execution, general tech, presentation
<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong> I spent most of Tuesday wrestling with PHP, trying to get the links and post sections of Mrs. Jacobson's book club website in order. At her request I tried to find a way to integrate <a target="_blank" title="Del.icio.us" href="http://del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a> with the blog, but the I don't think that their tag system will provide the kind of obvious organization that the wordpress link categories do. I made user accounts for each of the students in the club and I tested them by commenting from each account.

On Thursday, Mrs. Jacobson asked me to set up her new image projector, which I then showed her how to use. Mrs. White asked me to see about some problems she'd had with her digital camera, which turned out to be just a slightly bent USB cord. Once her camera was back in commission, I was able to quickly print a photo project for her after school group. I worked a little more with the internal organization and coding of the book club website.
Friday was a teacher inservice day, so I went to Shaz's presentation on classroom blogs. I helped Mr. Poole change his theme to include his pages, links, and a calendar. I met Mr. Waggoner, who wants to do two interesting blog projects-- one videoblog of a student steel drum band, and one blog of student-drawn comics. Shaz and I pointed him toward <a target="_blank" title="Google Video" href="http://video.google.com">Google Video</a> as a solution for the video blog, and generally showed him around the wordpress engine. I talked with Mrs. Johnson for a few minutes before I left, and it seems that she has a Dell sitting in a cardboard box in her office which she doesn't know how to set up. I'm not sure I'll be able to get back to her this week, so anyone at Till with a few extra minutes to set her up would be appreciated.
Next week, I'll be coming in on Thursday afternoon during the book club to show the students how to use the blog. The third graders last year were very interested in how the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.cuip.net/BookPreviews/">Book Previews</a> blog worked, so hopefully these kids will be just as receptive.