Your Name: Jennifer Ganze
Today's Date: 2006/11/17
Day(s) worked or described: T θ
Total hours for week:6
The School: Mollison
Kind of Work: Project Prep, Helping Teacher

Main Report or Narrative:

On Tuesday, my first day, for the first part of the day I went around with Jon who was fixing computer stuff for some of the teachers and briefly asked what kind of projects they would be interested in (most of them said they’d like some kind of class website), until we saw Ms. Straight in the hallway and I went to go meet with her. We just talked about what kind of stuff each of us could do and she showed me several examples of powerpoints she had made for different classes. When we were done talking, she had two sets of speakers that she asked me if I or Jon could see if they were working. That led Jon and I to go through the box of speakers in the closet of the computer lab to try and find usable speakers.

On Thursday, when I first arrived I sat down with Ms. Tolbert and she showed me the website she had previously had for her students’ poetry and we talked about what kind of things she would like to improve on and the possibility of me making a cheat sheet on making webpages for all the teachers to use and possibly doing a workshop for teachers teaching them about websites or other computer stuff.

Then Ms. Straight and a class came into the computer lab (they usually only go to computer lab MWF, but apparently they were making something up), and I ended up staying in there helping the kids do their project (which was to paste a Thanksgiving picture from a website into a word document and write some things they were thankful for), just answering general problems they had, because Ms. Straight could only help one person at a time (this is where the smart board would’ve been useful! We need to talk to someone about getting that replacement bulb…) and inbetween that I looked up how to do some things on powerpoint that Ms. Straight had asked me how to do when I talked to her Tuesday. They had an issue that the kids couldn’t print their projects, and I really have no idea how to do/fix that, so if Jon or Russ hasn’t already, that’s something they need look into; Ms. Straight said she’d ask next time she saw them.

After the class left, I went around the school and tried to talk to a few teachers who on the survey said they were interested in doing some projects, but they were all either not there or in the middle of a lesson, so I will do that first thing on Tuesday.