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Didn’t have A/C until Friday afternoon, have had to get in early to work.

Principal at my school and a few others shifted workday/staff development days making Minday and Friday workdays. I liked that as i had a better handle what needed to be done as I went and got small tasts done each morning.

I am still the Queen of Tech in my world, remembering that at least Office 2010 lets uou save PDFs so several people don’t need to buy Acrobat. Spent the week holding a lot of hands.

Scored help this morning as a former student saw I checked in with Foursquare.

Dress code for teachers got changed without me noticing. Much less strict and doesn’t require panty hose or socks for women.

Think i am ready for Monday.
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Someone got a really good idea and made the first day a workday. We had a short meeting and were told what happened with budget.

On Friday, I got my room keys and
got my teacher workstation going. That let me hit the ground running today. Plus I got the window unit running only, AC in the area.

I moved furniture where I wanted it. Still need to tweak it. Got Email group set up so we can communicate again.
We just went from GroupWise to LIVE.EDU.

One of the new custodians plugged all the cables back in. I have two groups of workstations to get back up bit am hoping the campus tech gets to it before I do. He has better tools to get the job done.

Printers are up and scanner , haven’t confirmed the web cam.

Attendance system and gradebook are up.

Baby steps .

Harest thing is to figure out what to do next.

Helped a bunch of people with email.

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Have my keys, spent some time and got my teacher workstation up and running.

How has the economy affected my classes?  Web class size is VERY large, and we’re missing one person from our department.

Computer Science enrollment is about even to last year.

Monday is our first day of staff development, we are scheduled to have three days of staff development and two teacher workdays.

When I stopped by on Monday, couldn’t get keys but was able to go by the room.  None of the workstations were plugged in and furniture had been completely moved.

Are crackers harmless?

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Alfred writes today about crackers.  And no they are not harmless.  In fact, on Twitter and the internet there are several artices about hacking insulin pumps.  Wrong term.  I have a model of insulin pump that resembles what the cracker is talking about and it is a bit scary.  It wouldn't kill me.  My pump whirs when it dispenses insulin so I would hear it if I was suddenly getting over delivered, and I do check my blood sugar so I would know if I was not getting the right amount.

If you are interested, just do a search on hacking insulin pumps.

They have set up a great workshop, and I hope more people come to their future ones.  The morning focused on fundraising, with someone who is an expert in large project fundraising and someone who had done some FIRST FTC training.

They also had an educational expert from NASA who showed us their education programs.

Afternoon was focused on programming, and their students helped us program.

We’re voicing our strong, unequivocal support of appropriate behavior by all
participants at technical events, including Oscon and other O'Reilly
conferences. We invite you to help us make Oscon a place that is welcoming and
respectful to all participants, so everyone can focus on the conference itself,
and the great networking and community richness that can happen when we get
together in person.

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It is SO good to hear this from a major presenter.

This is a major topic on Systers, and it is amazing that it still happens.

Apparently a presenter demostrated databases, using a database rating woman by hotness.

Now, please, if you can't present something to a group of high school (or better yet, middle school students), don't present it ever. It is't appropriate for any audience.

What is the difference between Hacking and programming?

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Good points!

This is something I try to teach. Often what I do, does look like hacking, but I have things planned out in my head.

Trying to get better at it — this would be a great way to use One Note, and something I'm trying to do.

Just finished doing all my planning on my trip.  Making reservations, etc.  So I immediately set up a notebook on OneNote for it, and send a copy of all of the correspondence related to the trip.

• Email with the scholarship offer (which I already sent a copy of to my administrators as a brag and so they would know I would need a staff development day.
• Conference Registration pages
• Flight Reservation pages

I’ll put together a schedule later, and any correspondence, receipts etc. will end up there.

Saved my butt last year when I got the TCEA Conference Scholarship, as the person I had sent all the information to was laid off and her files were lost.  Or it was easier to just ask me.  At any rate, I had a copy of everything and could get it emailed to the person who needed.

I have applied for this scholarship for three years running.  This year I get to go, in November after telling my husband we were NOT going on a cruise to Alaska in October <smile>.

I have always wanted to go, but just don’t have the funds and can’t justify it.  It’s going to cost me a little bit, but not near as much as if  I had to foot the bill.

I’ve REALLY looking forward to it.

I’ve never been to Denver (where I have to switch planes) or Portland.

Office Chair
Parts

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These people rock.

I found a chair at Office Depot I really liked, except it had a really cheap base. Really cheap. Plus it was too high.

It broke within a day or two.

I found this site, called them Monday afternoon, and made the order while I was talking to them.

I now have a decent office chair, the new base was delivered this afternoon. I can't believe how fast the delivery was.

They rock!