Melissa Weihmayer
2-16-2007
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 6 hours total
Murray Language Academy
Lab help

I began my first week at Murray unsure of both my role and responsibilities as the CUIP assistant. I had a vague idea that I would be helping on some technology issues (although leaving the more difficult tasks to Xavier), and perhaps working with teachers. Joe Mills, clearly, has been essential in helping me establish a position here. Because of a snowstorm on Tuesday, I spent my time getting my bearings in the lab and reviewing a website of children's programs (vocab and literature comprehension oriented) to summarize the programs for Joe and others. Thursday I installed Adobe Flash onto all of the lab computers, an easy but long process. I then met with two third grade teachers to see about ways to insert technology into their curriculums in the near future. We decided on an excell lesson with bar graphs to accompany their statistics lesson - I will brush up on my excell skills, they will collect data on six different topics between two classes (one group of 5 students per topic), and next Friday I will be teaching a lesson on making excell graphs. Hopefully the week after that we can set up a projector and make a presentation so the kids can appreciate their work. Today, Friday, I helped Joe in the lab trying to move thirty rambuncious 4th graders through different math websites. 