Your Name: Jackson Wright

Today’s Date: 2009/5/29 [2009/5/25]

Day(s) worked or described: W F

Total hours for week: 4

The School: Mollison

Kind of Work: Tech general, Lab supervision, Creative Stuff?!?

Main Report or Narrative: I got another slideshow done! If anything, it should be reflective of the only kind of projects that wish to be accomplished here. Check the website!

In other news, if we consider my work here as that one of "development," and in light of a recent book I was reading on said subject, one might say that I have done an adequate job. The core critique of development leveled in the book, and coincidentally in the class the book is for, espouses some idea that development should come from the bottom up. In that sense, I shouldn't be trying to implement some rational, generalized policy here at Mollison, and I'm definitely not. The more time I've spent here, the more I realize that what I do here, albeit often trivial and seemingly mindless or unimaginative, is responding to a specific need of the individuals in this school. Whether it's fixing a computer that perpetually malfunctions or taking pictures of forcibly posed students coerced into participating in a "lab" or "reading" so that the school can have a better chance and accruing more funds or simply cleaning up sunflower seeds every day that can be found throughout the entire computer lab, I am at least doing something, performing some service.

That being said, I feel that the technology available at the school, let alone in the world, is being severely underutilized. My four hours a week is not enough to begin to plant the seed of techknowledge and any dream I had of doing a podcast with the 8th graders never bore any fruit. I feel that the majority of my time spent at Mollison was swept up in the realistic, bureaucratic needs and rarely left time for what might be more ideologically ambitious goals. That being said, I really want to do a podcast, and I also really want to help Mrs. Dean with the Kindergarten project. Neither of which will I be able to finish this year, and regretfully so.

I wish I could take and upload a picture with this computer however, because the lab is in very good shape after being rearranged (due to table collapse). The only issues are loads of pencil graffiti on everything and the occasional speaker and sunflower seed shell.

I've had a good year this year, but I feel like I could have done more, or rather, more could have been done, at least in the creativity department.