Your Name: Chris
Today’s Date: Dec. 6, 2006
Day(s) worked or described: M, T, W
Total hours for week: 7.5
Kind of Work: Tech general, teaching blogging, project prep, project execution
Main Report or Narrative:

Monday

Taught Mrs. Glover how to blog, she seems pretty adjusted to posting, commenting, moderating comments, isn't really interested in setting up links. I don't know offhand how to incorporate images into the posts or pages- I'm using that as a homework assignment, to learn by Wednesday. That finished up by 10am; I spent the rest of Monday building two and a half computers from spare parts for an eighth grade teacher whose name I don't recall.

Tuesday

I'd promised Mrs. Glover some homework about how to add images, position them, add links, etc. and was all spiffied up to print off a full report, when I thought, hey, why not use the cuip blog and give her a resource she can use permanently? So, I set up a blog dedicated to teaching people how to blog. It's available <a href="http://blogs.cuip.net/ChrisF">Here</a>, for your inspection and, hopefully, approval. This couldn't have taken more than two hours to do, once I'd figured out how to go about putting html in a blog, set up the photobucket account, stopped the tutorial from self-linking and fixed broken images; I'll put it on my time card as one and a half.

Wednesday

My blogging tutorial is up and going, and I spent today working on finishing the powerpoint for Mrs. Burdette's class. They're getting the hang of typing, so it was more an issue of teaching the kids how to run a google search, in connection to finding relevant illustrations for the sentences they wrote. Here, spelling is important (that had some problems : )  ...) but I think that a good half of them or so have got it. Anyways, enough of them understood well enough that the class-wide project, a story about Jack the Monkey going to the amusement park, is done and moderately impressive. I plan on scanning the printout Mrs. Burdette does of the story, and putting the finished product up on her blog as part of her newsletter. If anybody knows how to upload a powerpoint to the internet, I'd love to learn- but this is my fallback.

No work on Friday. It occurred to me that I should probably use at least some of finals week to work on finals; it's all essays, so I've been putting it off. O_O Bad idea.