Lazy Tech Coach Intern Blog

Another Day

Jacob — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:00:44 +0000

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

Wooooo

Jacob — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:49:46 +0000

I read my book today. Oh, and we helped a teacher set up a movie to watch. Yay!

Math Teachers…

Jacob — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:22:19 +0000

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!

Goings On

Jacob — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:48:49 +0000

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 I will realize my dream of Windows on a flash drive.

Besides that, Goshorn and I have done a multitude of things. We have worked on Promethean boards, worked in the auditorium setting up for various performances, and even cleaned up a laptop that had coffee spilled on it!

All in all, the past month has been filled with many technologically related activities. Stay tuned for up to date information!

Prom is tomorrow!

Jacob — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:49:25 +0000

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 work. Though I have a feeling file2hd.com will work. Well, toodles!

Wednesdays are the worst

Jacob — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:37:03 +0000

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 has to be the best music ever created.

Another Day

Jacob — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:24:20 +0000

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 holding the pen up to the flame and then clicking connect. It seems that the pens get disconnected from the Activ board quite easily, so it’s no surprise that it was not connected at all. Welp, that;s it for today!

Good Readers

Jacob — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:08:27 +0000

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 the chance to help out Ms. Clark with her powerpoint woes. It seems that she wanted to embed youtube clips into a powerpoint. After me failing miserably to help her with this, Goshorn came and saved the day. Yay!

That’s all for today, folks.

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Jacob — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:22:09 +0000

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[Insert Random Day Facts]

[Insert Cool Picture]

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Mundane Wikispaces!

Jacob — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:44:05 +0000

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 can contribute and make their own wikipedia. The problem with me is the layout. It should either be java or flash based, because the text layout makes everything more complicated than it needs to be and makes it bulkier.
Either way, teachers will probably continue using them, so why worry about it? Hopefully Monday I can start some more work on this flash drive, because I really want to be able to boot up anywhere.

Today was wasted.

Jacob — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:46:00 +0000

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 modified. Blah. Chorus cut short today’s interning as well.

Sugar OS is bad for my teeth.

Jacob — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:48:52 +0000

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.

Today Was Weird

Jacob — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:19:36 +0000

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 becomes 3d! Well, it blew my mind. Here’s a sample:

Awesome.

Failure

Jacob — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:46:44 +0000

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 service pack 1 installed, so that I can follow the directions outlined in the directions to a “t”.

That will start today, if I can find an install cd. Blah. This is quite depressing. Three failures in a row. WELL! Jefferson didn’t give up on his third tri, soooo. Let’s go.

New Post in a Hurry. Like Curry.

Jacob — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:11:48 +0000

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.

Magnetic Poetry Day!

Jacob — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:00:39 +0000

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 enjoyable. Though I don’t know if I’ll be able to finish today…

Pork Choppy Mcmoots

Jacob — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:10:27 +0000

Nuts, it doesn't shred children.

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 restart, but I’m feeling secure. Tomorrow will have to be the day of truth, when I start editing. Here’s to hoping usbehci.sys will be here!

I want to be these people:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/not_enough_work.png

Also, I <3 the new library shredder.

Yesterday Failed

Jacob — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:50:30 +0000

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.

This Will Work

Jacob — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:19:48 +0000

Whilst I injected INF files into ISOs, Goshorn fooled around with this dancing purple book.

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. I now know that that was probably the problem with my install cd. Anyway, I downloaded a copy of usbehci.sys and made a cabinet file for it to inject back into the ISO. Blaah. Here is basically what I have to do tommorow.

[BootBusExtenders]
pci = “PCI-Bustreiber”,files.pci,pci
acpi = “ACPI Plug & Play-Bustreiber”,files.acpi,acpi
isapnp = “ISA Plug & Play-Bustreiber”,files.isapnp,isapnp
acpiec = “Integrierter ACPI-Controllertreiber”,files.none,acpiec
ohci1394 = “IEEE-1394-Bus-OHCI-konformer Anschlusstreiber”,files.ohci1394,ohci1394
usbehci = “Erweiterter Hostcontroller”,files.usbehci,usbehci
usbohci = “Open Hostcontroller”,files.usbohci,usbohci
usbuhci = “Universeller Hostcontroller”,files.usbuhci,usbuhci
usbhub = “Standard-USB-Hubtreiber”,files.usbhub,usbhub
usbstor = “USB-Speicherklassentreiber”,files.usbstor,usbstor

[InputDevicesSupport]
usbehci = “Erweiterter Hostcontroller”,files.usbehci,usbehci
usbohci = “Open Hostcontroller”,files.usbohci,usbohci
usbuhci = “Universeller Hostcontroller”,files.usbuhci,usbuhci
usbhub = “Standard-USB-Hubtreiber”,files.usbhub,usbhub
hidusb = “HID-Parser”,files.hidusb,hidusb
serial = “Treiber f�r seriellen Anschluss”,files.none,serial
serenum = “Enumerator f�r seriellen Anschluss”,files.none,serenum
usbstor = “USB-Speicherklassentreiber”,files.usbstor,usbstor
usbccgp = “USB Generic Parent Driver”,files.usbccgp,usbccgp

Weeelll, that’s all for today!

Another Day Another…Day

Jacob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:06:04 +0000

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 installed flash drive. I finally managed to slipstream my install disk using the instructions provided at the BartPE website, and will again work on this tommorow. Unfortunately Thursday night is redo everything night, so I will have to be diligent this week in achieving my goal as Technology Assistant. Yay!

Here’s a pretty sweet trailer for the best movie made evar:

Boat the Movie by ehanson7

Make your own | Clone and edit

I Blame the Maintenence People

Jacob — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:20:21 +0000

The Intern fixes the lighting console.

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 a half hour, and we came away pretty good with only one globe that refused to cooperate. We then just sat in the sound booth waiting for the maintenence people ot show up with the light bulbs. They never came. We ended up looking through the gel samples and playing with the classic Trouperette, a spotlight that must’ve gone through the war, no lie. Well, times a wastin’. See you tommorow hopefully, with a more constant blogging experience.

Here We Are

Jacob — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:30:12 +0000

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 article at www.ngine.de/article/id/8

It is an extremely easy to read and understand article. I tried doing the whole process once, but in my haste I accidentally forgot to slipstream the xp install disk with the Service Pack 1 from Windows. This resulted in the computer being unable to find several vital files such as usbehdc or something. I am hoping this will alleviate the problem, slipstreaming SP1.

Anyway, Goshorn and I now both have Dual Screen Monitors, and with some software he downloaded, he can now use my laptop as a third, making him the ultimate tech god!

Since I Haven’t Done Any Embedding…

Jacob — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:21:00 +0000

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.

Hello There

Jacob — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:42:00 +0000

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 want to work. Anyway, here I am.

Today was pretty boring. I started off by being sent off to record some class for the National Accredition poop. It was very dull and tedious. I am very thankful I was not in that class. Anyway, I got back to the tech room, and Goshorn was still not back, as he was kept busy by all the teachers getting confuzzled over the new smart boards that were just installed today.

Instead of letting me off the hook to relax, he decided to make me transcribe this message onto a word document so he could make a blurb about it on the school website. Blah. It was really boring. But it wasn’t that bad as it kept me occupied for about 10 minutes.

Wikispaceesss Yaaay!!

Jacob — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:19:00 +0000

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.

Me n Goshorn Both

Jacob — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:19:00 +0000

Welcoming Students

Jacob — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:32:00 +0000

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 is one of the last pictures taken, that I personally feel exemplifies what our school is all about:

Ya for bashing the school and its spending! Anyway, now we are in the process of selecting which pictures that were taken to go on to the slideshow for which they were intended.

Well then, here we go.

Jacob — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:04:00 +0000

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 set to optimized battery life, so whenever she let it idle, the computer would attempt to save the battery. So Goshorn told me to switch the settings to maximum performance, so it would not idle. Yay!

Run for your lives, the robot apocalypse is coming.

Jacob — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:17:00 +0000

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.

Double the post, double the fun!

Jacob — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:26:00 +0000

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 went around and did nothing again. Well, we checked out the auditorium, sang some carols, and delivered a desk to Mr. Williams. Also, we got locks of food and candy.

I am inspired from the use of Inspiration!

Jacob — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:04:00 +0000

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 to come with a question to pose to students such as, “What is your greatest concern about your safety at school?” Or something like that. Well, besides that, we didn’t really do anything.

Long time no see.

Jacob — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:40:00 +0000

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 primarily learning focused program to make flowcharts and diagrams.

Today is also the day that we give blood. Yay. I have to give mine at 1:15, so I still have awhile to go. I’m nervous to see if I can do it, but we will see.

Put it in my…blog

Jacob — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:40:00 +0000

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.

A big ‘ol day of not delays.

Jacob — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:59:00 +0000

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. Not really sure how we are supposed to fix that, but maybe Goshorn will find a way. I mean he is Goshorn.

So we did that for awhile, and then we did some errands. Dropping and picking off mail, and getting a cookie on the way. Then, we really did nothing, so I tried to get caught up on my webcomics.

Well, have a good weekend all.

Magic!

Jacob — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:02:00 +0000

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.

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Late Post

Jacob — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:19:00 +0000

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 of the call letter. So, yeah. That’s all that happened yesterday.

Day Next

Jacob — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:10:00 +0000

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 run:

woot.

Comme il se doit

Jacob — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:05:00 +0000

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. Well, thats all for today folks.

Spectrum Analyzer Day, mark your calendars

Jacob — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:14:00 +0000

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.

Day 3, 12/4/08

Jacob — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:47:00 +0000

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 by computer instead of simply guessing. When feedback appeared on the on-screen monitor, I took a screenshot and analyzed which frequency was causing the feedback, and then that frequency would put all the way down on the equalizer. So we cut out all of the feedback, and it appeared to be the best day of Goshorn’s life.

Day 2, 12/3/08

Jacob — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:51:00 +0000

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 freedom, Mrs. Dosch has enlisted my abilities as I am the library slave as well as Assistant Technology Coach. I have begun work on a slide show using a program he mentioned to me yesterday: Photo Story 3. I’ll try to get a copy of it embedded in the blog, if I can.

Period 4 Work: 12/2

Jacob — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:51:00 +0000

Today we played with animasher, a cool web-based app that creates videos. Here is about 10 minutes work on one.

asdf by BushIris

Make your own | Clone and edit

Eh, maybe they’ll get better.