Week 4 -RSS Feeds

Check out the RSS Feeds I have added to this page!

http://www.bloglines.com/public/RistauReads

Week 3 -Technology

After my day at work today I could probably say a great deal about technology. Our Accelerated Reader program didn't work, our FASTT Math program didn't work and an entire wing of the building had computers that were freezing up and working so slowly no one could get anything done. Luckily I am able to call in to a technology help desk and they were able to dispatch two people to help with the problem. And, I am also thankful there was a problem and it wasn't just me making something up, or not thoroughly thinking through things. I am still not sure if I understand the problem completely, but the people who were operating so slowly had a faulty switch their ethernet cords were plugged into. According to our networking guy they were "dropping packets" whatever that means. I do know that when we pinged our server from their computers they timed out a number of times. This problem created the AR problem for the entire building. Tonight everyone should have been happy when they left school because that problem was resolved.

However, my technology problem is not resolved. The kindergarten classes and I spent weeks taking digital pictures of them making the alphabet letters with their bodies. We are done with that and now I am trying to print the pictures out. In my haste to show them the new pictures we took each week I ended up downloading duplicate copies of the pictures and have hundreds to sort through now to find all the A pictures, all the B pictures, etc. ARGH! And, once I find them I need to edit them since they are too dark. And then I cannot seem to center the pictures correctly on a piece of paper. This project which I still think is very cute, is turning into a major headache.

So, my technology post seems to be my frustration with this very necessary part of my job. When it works, it is great, but if it doesn't it is a nightmare!