Category: Blog

I needed another wandering around the house computer.   Using it now.  Acer One 532h.   I am about to get rid of one of the house computers, but haven’t decided which one.   May give it to the office manager’s nephew but haven’t decided.

This is slightly bigger than my car computer – Acer ZG5 – has Windows 7 and slightly bigger keyboard so may end up being my agility computer.

What I really like is that it uses the same power source as the other computer, so can share the cords.  I really like to keep my cords in specific targeting places, just in case I need one.  This means I have a DC in the car, and at least three others as I got two cheap on eBay.

First, Vista installed right out of the box on my Gateway M275 and worked fine.  Found the drivers etc.

Second, you should be able to install the Tablet version of Windows XP and it will work without drivers.  Since I finally have a break, I’m going to see if I can find a place I can put the drivers so people can download for a small fee. (Probably $5.00)  Give me a few days, I’m at dog agility trials.

But you can’t copy and paste large sections or complete articles from other bloggers posts directly into posts on your blog or website.

How Do You Feel When Someone Copies and Pastes Your Post? | The Edublogger

It’s even worse when they use the RSS feed to bring it into their blog as if it is their own work.

Yes, it’s happen to me on my diabetes blog, several times now.  Don’t do it, I might actually go find a copyright lawyer, understand lawyers come pretty cheap lately.

I have been completely overwhelmed.  Between the new furniture and being sued by a special education student’s parents, I haven’t been sleeping.

I have managed to start doing a major purge – I sent a large box full of new cables back to the district, threw a way another box full of mice with no balls – and am doing a little bit each day.

Unfortunately I can’t say much about the lawsuit – have probably said too much already, but I haven’t been sleeping as a result, and it is a major topic in my mind, all the time.

This spring break, I am just de-stressing.  I have an agility trial today, went to bed when I was tired enough and woke up when I was ready – We’re not due in the ring until sometime after 1:00 pm, so I am taking a leisurely morning to get there.

We've been doing some beta curriculum for XNA for the past few weeks (we're at Chapter 6 and working on building a "Button Blaster" game.

Took in my XBOX, hooked it up (felt like being a REAL spoiled brat, and maybe will tomorrow, and hook up two projectors, since I have them) and did a demonstration of deploying a game to the xbox.

It's pretty cool, and even worked in the classroom even though we got XBox live errors because the firewall.

I started out with the test game, deployed it to the xbox, and then compiled a real version. 

Then I had them help me write the tug of war version, deployed it and played it. 

I have several students with XBox's, don't know if they have Gold Live but hoping they will give it a try over Spring Break.

Will give it another try tomorrow, with the other version of Button Blaster.

Now that we have room —

I've set up my Smart Board — weil, not exactly mine but one that has been loaned to me.

One of my remedial math kids asked me about Algebra Tiles and since they were invented when I learned algebra, and also were invented after I learned to teach Algebra, I sent her to some websites.  Since last night was parent conferences, I had a minute and downloaded some lesson on Algebra Tiles from the internet.

It worked best with the smaller group.  In fact, the Smart Board didn't work at all with the 7th period, not sure , but I think the Bluetooth got unplugged.  How does the rest of the world cope?  I know, they call me.

One of my kids even videotaped it.  He had a tripod and a camera with him, why I don't know, and he's going to make a movie later in the week.

Pretty cool.

Okay, I was 90% sure I left my phone at school.

I had rearranged my classroom so well, I couldn’t find my car keys.  Oh, and we had parent conferences and I was trying to get out of the building before I ran into another parent.  So once I found my keys, I kinda of left and left my phone and camera behind.  Didn’t know they weren’t with me until I got into the car, so there was the possibility of having lost it.

Here’s the cool part, I hadn’t purchased the Premium services yet!  I was able to purchase the Premium services without having the phone in hand, AND find it with the MyPhone service.

COOL!

How to make a photo album with Typepad.  Note, you do have to upload and run their software in the "Upload Multiple Pictures" box.

Sample Photo Album created with the movie – http://www.kweaver.org/photos/sample/

http://www.kweaver.org/photos/classroom_march_2010/

Here's a photo album of how the classroom looks.  And I am quite tickled by our security guard, he came in, said it was back the way it was when he was a student and was teasing the kid in his old seat, kicking him out.

I have an A/V media place now, in the center of the room, and I 'm using an old cow to secure those items.  I'll need it next year when I teach Multimedia.

I also need to get some 4 foot power strips — I've asked our office manager for them, and will put them in the tables.

I was very sick this weekend, ended up sleeping all day on Saturday after coming home from the event that made me angry.  I got no sleep Friday night, as I was in horrible pain.

Sunday I got a massage which helped. 

Most of the my problem was pain from rearranging the room.  It looks very nice and will post about it this afternoon.

So why am I mad?

I presented at an AP Session.  I was not given enough material to present.  The other teachers interferred with the AP portion that I was presenting. 

I should have just called in sick.  or just not shown up.

Yes, I should have realized I was being set up to fail and should have found more material. 

The kicker, one of their student's parents called my school to complain about something I said.  I was completely mis-quoted.

I won't be back this year.