<strong>Your Name:</strong><strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2008/10/20 [Week 3]

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T Θ

<strong>Total hours for week: 4
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<strong>The School:
</strong><em>Fiske</em>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech General/Introductions

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>

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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="normal;">Last week was my first week back at Fiske, and Mr. Miller definitely has some huge plans for the school which are very exciting.<span> </span>First of all, however, I should touch on what I was able to do last week.<span> </span>For all but about thirty minutes of the four hours I worked I wandered the halls compiling a technology assessment to see what teachers had in their rooms, but more importantly introduce myself and make sure everything was working properly (as well as ask them what they’d like to see in terms of technology instruction this year).<span> </span>It seemed like most things were working properly, just a monitor to plug in here or a printer to install.<span> </span>One of the teachers (the music teacher) asked if there were any programs she could use on her windows pc in the same vein as garage band.<span> </span>I haven’t gotten a chance to see if anything like that exists, does anyone here know?</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="normal;">On the larger scale, Mr. Miller wants to do a lot with technology this year.<span> </span>First of all, he’s looking to set up a “digital storytelling” project for the kids where they make power point presentations to tell a story.<span> </span>If we can get machines working well enough to do it, he’d like to have them use some of the cameras that Fiske has (I haven’t seen them so I don’t know what they are) so that they can put pictures in as well.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="normal;">Secondly, he has 80 new desktops coming in during the first week or two of November.<span> </span>I’m not sure exactly what all of his plans are for them, but I think he at least wants to replace the ancient machines in these labs and would also like to make sure each classroom has some sort of computing available.<span> </span>Due to this, I haven’t really spent much time with the machines in the labs, although I also haven’t received any complaints about them yet.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="normal;">Thirdly, Mr. Miller and Ms. Hicks got a number of older iMacs from a school auction last weekend (they’re the ones with the colorful big bubble shape), which I think they want to have so that students have some familiarity with mac os.<span> </span>I played around with one today, but it’s running the original Mac OS X (Cheetah I think), which, after a little wiki’ing (I have little experience with macs) I found is a pretty useless build.<span> </span>Ms. Hicks says she has a Panther build which she thinks can run on them, and that would allow them to use Safari/Word/etc.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="normal;">That’s about it for now, I have quite possibly the busiest week I will ever have at this school this week so I may not work on Thursday (I’ve already talked to Mr. Miller about it).<span> </span>I will be in tomorrow, however, and I think I’ve fixed my schedule so that I can be everywhere I need to be at the right times now (Sorry about not being there at 10 last Thursday, Mitch, I got tied up on campus and didn’t get here until 11—Ms. Hollings told me that I missed you by about a minute).</p>

<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong> There's not enough time in a day... it would be very nice to be able to slow down time to 1/2 speed.