http://dgoshorn.com/intern daily record of the doings of a lazy Assistant Instructional Technology Coach Thu, 28 May 2009 13:00:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today was a simple day in the land of technology. Mrs. Keys had some issues with her Activ board, but these were quickly remedied. What happens is that the pen gets disconnected from the board somehow. To fix this, one must simply hold the pen in front of the http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=125 I read my book today. Oh, and we helped a teacher set up a movie to watch. Yay! http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=124 Today I spent the whole interning period scanning in comics and various math puzzles for Mrs. Waldman. It hurt my face. But then again, at least it gave me some intern work and experience with the copier. Hoo-rah! http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=123 A lot has happened in the last month. First of all,I have given up on everything. Ever. Well, not really. I just gave up on finding a way to boot from a flash drive. It seems that everytime I edit an ISO, it messes up. It happens, but maybe someday ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=121 Well, not much is going on today, but prom is tomorrow! I managed to find a pink tux online, and am pretty excited about that. Anyway, today I am working on nabbing a flash object embedded in a website. It's tricky because it's embedded and none of our add-ons will ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=133 Not much is has happened today. I just surfed the web looking for random music to play during gym. At first I wanted to go straight classical, but Goshorn has some newer age type classical that I opted for instead. So I burned a cd and went to town! Classical ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=129 Today was another day filled with the normal technologically related activities that often accompany being a technology coach assistant. Specifically, I went out to help poor Mrs. Keys with her Activ board because her pen was not working. All I had to do was reconnect it, which consisted simply of ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=126 Well, I am not dead good readers. That is, good reader. AKA Goshorn. Anyway, yesterday was a good time. We finally got to start working on the display case for our tech bulletin board! We managed to procure some blacklights from an undisclosed location, which are very nice. I also had ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=120 [Start Post] [Insert Random Day Facts] [Insert Cool Picture] [End Post] http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=118 Every time I am in the vicinity of Goshorn teaching about wikispaces, I just get really bored. The concept is the same as writing a paper, except you can put pictures in and see everybody's papers. Aside from that fact, I can understand why a teacher would utilize them. Everybody ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=117 The sugar OS did not work out as planned, because for some reason the keyboard on my laptop did not match that of the laptop per child initiative. Depressing, but not unfixable. I guess the only thing left to do is continue to search for an iso that is already ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=116 Today's ass't tech coach intern tasks: 1) Catch up on the blog. 2) Cut apart my laminations. 3) Make this for me -> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/Windows -Mr. Darcy Goshorn That is all. On my way. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=115 There was no Goshorn, and so the intern was quite confused and did not know what to do. Fortunately, he grabbed a hold of stereoscopic images and went to town. When first viewed, this images look like identical pictures side by side. But when the viewer crosses his eyes, it ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=114 Tomorrow was another complete failure. It seems that either I incorrectly edited the files needed in the iso, or I selected the wrong iso to burn to the cd, or service pack 3 simply does not allow usb installation. Either way, I will search for an install cd with only ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=112 Today, I managed to begin the USB thingamajigger. For seriously, my downloaded copy of the install disk actually worked! It has the usbehci.sys file I needed, soooo. Woot. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=111 So I guess the whole intern project will have to be further delayed as Goshorn is out at some weird thing. Anyway, For today and tomorrow yesterday and today I will be creating magnetic poetry! As much of a pain as it is, I believe that this will be quite ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=107 [caption id="attachment_104" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Nuts, it doesn't shred children."][/caption] Today is the day. That I do nothing apparently. The laptop is currently being held hostage by the librarian, and there is nothing I can do about it for now. I moved my...special file...to the D Drive, just in case of a ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=102 Er, Friday that is. Totally failed with the boot disk. So instead, I have successfully found a copy of XP professional with SP3. This should remedy the problem with usbehci.sys, and thus work! But that is for tomorrow. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=99 [caption id="attachment_96" align="alignright" width="251" caption="Whilst I injected INF files into ISOs, Goshorn fooled around with this dancing purple book."][/caption] I am once again attempting to create this freaking flash drive! Okay. I realized last time that I was missing a usbehci.sy_ file, but I neglected that step because I was silly. ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=94 Today was nothing. All period Goshorn writhed around worrying about what to delete on his ridiculously small hard drive in order to render a video for a teacher's accredidation thingamajigger. So while he did this I continued on my quest to make the world a better place via a windows ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=86 [caption id="attachment_83" align="alignright" width="225" caption="The Intern fixes the lighting console."][/caption] Today we went straight from the library down to the auditorium to begin replacing the electric strips onstage. So we went over to the stage, brought down the lights, and began unscrewing the globes that covered the bulbs. This took about ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=81 A few weeks later and none the worse I wager. For the past umpteenth weeks I have been attempting to install windows to a flash drive. I have long since given up on Bart's Preinstalled Environment, as I don't understand what it wants from me. Instead, I have found another ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=26 Well, since I haven't done much blogging in awhile, I might as well give you something worthwhile to look at.Here is the alternate video if this current method I'm working on fails miserably...again. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=27 My name is Jacob Hartwig, and I will be keeping a blog on my daily activities as the Tech Jobler of East Pennsboro. Ha, or I'll try/ have been trying. So, the school's filter is basically wack, and whenever I try to sign on to blogger at school, it doesn't ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=25 At epes4.wikispaces.com or something I created my very own wikispace page. This was mainly in order to see how the program of wikispaces works, and to help students by gaining knowledge of my own. I also put three dragonball Z videos in. Fuun. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=24 http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=23 Today and yesterday Mr. Goshorn and I traveled all throughout the school in search of students in "welcoming" poses. While I have absolutely no idea what this means, Goshorn seems to have had some idea. We went around and got happy students, students opening doors, and other similar things. This ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=22 Today I went up to Mrs. Waldman's room on my first solo venture as the tech coach assistant. Apparently her laptop, and thus smart board, were randomly going into standby mode. Goshorn ran me through what to do, and I went up and helped her out. Her battery settings were ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=21 Thanks to the warnings from a fellow blogger at www.geekologie.com, it is now time to warn you of the robot apocalypse. For years we have been developing sophisticated and dangerous robots. The day is coming when they will turn on us. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=20 Well, since I forgot to do yesterday's post, I will do it right now. Yesterday, we hung out and ate some stuff and did nothing. We passed out fliers to mailboxes and that was basically it. And then, at the end of the period the middle school choir came.Today, we ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=19 Not really. Today we just went over to the Baldwin's and moderated kids pretending to be working with Inspiration. Well, except for the few that were legitimately working on it. Goshorn also decided that we must think of a video interview setup for the start of next. He wants me ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=18 Well, after my break of not writing, here I am once again to give you the news of the world with Goshorn. Today we went straight over to Baldwin's so that he may teach them how to use Inspiration. I haven't really been paying attention, but it seems to be a ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=17 Another Goshornless day. Not my preferred way to start the week. Well, I don't really know what to say. I'm just hanging out with Jenny the Horst, and arguing Wikipedia with the Dosch. Have a fun video to watch: Good day. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=16 Well, sadly there was no delay today, despite earlier predictions and hopes. Well, today we didn't do very much. We started by trying to figure out a way to turn off all of the computers in the library using a BAT file, but sadly access was denied through the network. ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=15 Today, we failed and succeeded. We lost a young girl's poor word document, but magically fixed a printer and made the internet connection speed better. Yeah, I don't really understand either. That's about it for today. Just a relaxing day basically. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=14 Well, this is a day late so I'll keep it brief. I came in late, at like 1:00 instead of 12:12, so I didn't really do much. We searched the whole library for a book starting with the call letter "T", only to realize the student was reading the barcode instead ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=13 Today we fixed the lights in the auditorium for the concert that is tonight. We also tested out the mics one last time. We then helped a teacher get some videos onto her computer. But most importantly, we also got an old apple computer, and set up a program to ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=12 Today we went to Madame Kint and Mrs. Chandra to help with stuff. Madame wanted to watch the video above. so we went up and put it on the projector and got a free French lesson too. Then Chandra needed help scanning a math book and sending it and stuff. ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=11 This is what we did today. Pretty much the same thing as yesterday, but with different mics. The video has nice Kenny G background music. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=10 WELL, today we did some real tech stuff. We went down to the auditorium to try and get the feedback out of the speakers and system. After 2 years of fiddling with the feedback bars by hand, Goshorn finally thought to download some free software that would analyze the feedback ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=9 Goshorn did not make an appearance today. His computer says that he is out visiting West Creek Hills Elementary. I guess that is fair, as I seem to have missed more days than I have been here so far. As a result of his not being here, and my subsequent ... http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=8 Today we played with animasher, a cool web-based app that creates videos. Here is about 10 minutes work on one.asdf by BushIrisMake your own | Clone and editEh, maybe they'll get better. http://dgoshorn.com/intern/?p=7