Organizing Classroom

So I went to school to get my room ready because of summer cleaning and new items being brought in.

The day started with logging into the computer and then doing updates on all the software that has updates for the summer.  I have been using Google Chrome more and I did download that browser and I worked on getting it setup and personalized to increase my productivity.

I was also able to go through and create gmail accounts  for the Seymour FBLA officer team and a created a shared calendar so that the officers will be organized and prepared for the meeting we will be having this week.I am continually thinking of ways to make the students more in charge of the organization but that means I need to be even further ahead.  I am getting there, especially because I have such great other FBLA advisers that share ideas (Jan I, Michelle M, Cindy O, & Jen W to just name a few of the awesome advisers that I some day hope to be more like).  I did take the html embed code for the shareable calendar and embed that on the Seymour High School's FBLA webpage.  I admit I don't update it often because I don't know how often it is referenced, but I hope this will help.

I of course did send a lot of emails, when don't I.  I was trying to coordinate a meeting with my administration for the upcoming school year.  Which makes me think of organizing the concession stand calendar and dealing with individuals that are not as passionate as myself for the endeavor. I am trying to remain calm!

I have yet to double check to see if my student computers are set up correctly.  I usually just check a few to be sure it is all there.  Nothing like planning a lesson and then discovering the software doesn't work and is not loaded.  Here is the dilemma if I login I have admin rights and it works but students logging with with fewer privileges it sometimes doesn't work.  I will have to come up with a work around for that.

The day was productive, but never productive enough.  It was nice to ride my bike to school (plus Gordon rode his bike to day care for the day and loved it).  I worked 6 hours and could have work a ton more.

I did go pick my my personal PC from the repair shop (botched unpartition of the C drive came up with a bad boot file for Windows) but when I went to set it up I discovered my LCD monitor was not working.  So of course I took it apart.  Here is what it looks like