First two weeks

Back to school. This post is a bit of a roundup of the first week back. I started with new teacher induction on Aug. 13-15. I assisted with setup and shot some movie clips of the activities. On the first day I did a quick 15-minute introduction to e-mail and L-core with all new elementary teachers. Dr. Martin approached me with the idea of creating a video with student pictures zooming out of a globe. He wanted to use this at convocation. I started working on a demo of it that night

On the second day I mainly took some video and helped Lee O'Neal with setup. Thursday night I edited together the footage shot on the first two days to show to the new teachers. After the workshop was over I went to see Belinda Branson to discuss the photo story and movie.

On Friday I did an hour presentation on ed-tech, my job, L-Core, e-mail and web sites with the "new new" teachers. They seem to be pretty tech-savvy and interested in integrating tech. The do seem to be a bit overwhelmed though, which is only natural.

On Monday I worked with Belinda and got the pictures, sound and ppt for the presentation. I began working on the video and powerpoint. I also stopped by Pumpkin Primary and helped set up the library projector and doc cam.

On Tuesday I took the finished ppt to North Lincoln where we tested everything. Steven and his crew at ITS have done a great job of getting this ready.

On Wednesday we did convocation and it went off well. Dr. Martin did a "David Letterman" style format with really funny interviews of kids. After convocation I help Glenda Walker set up for elementary staff development. I was going to bring some flyers by but there were not enough left. I will instead print more later and take them directly to the schools. I may try and get a few minutes at each school's first regular faculty meeting.

Thursday I assisted Lee by proctoring make-up English EOCs. Afterwards I went to the office and cleared up files and mail from the summer. Internet was down at the office and I contacted Chip.

On Friday morning I did some planning for the first few weeks. I set up the scanner and tested a donated microscope. Chip came early afternoon and fixed the Internet access. I spent the rest of the afternoon planning this blog, going through e-mails and thinking about my PGP.