November 30, 2010

Tuesday: My dr's appointment has been moved to Thursday so I'm here all day. We are about caught up with issues from me being gone but we need to get the lab and library ready for EOC testing. The practice test is today and the real thing in next Tuesday. We will concentrate on that 5th hour today. Remember your projects. I'd like for you to let me know who your group or artist is this week so be thinking about it.

If I send you out during your class and you don't see me at the end and you don't have time to blog, please text me and let me know if you were successful and if you got the job done so I know whether to send someone else in the same day. thanks!

November 29, 2010

Monday: Sorry I haven't been around much, my body is showing its age and I ended up in the hospital for some emergency surgery on Tuesday. I have several dr appointments this week and have to start therapy so bear with me and try to look for notes on what to do. I'll try to keep you informed as much as possible. When I'm not around, work on your website. I had some other things to tell you but I keep getting interrupted and have forgotten at the moment. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break and is ready to finish up the semester with energy!

November 19, 2010

Friday: I am not here today but I am expecting everyone to start researching for their web project. Stay in the lab and help anyone who asks. Please do not wonder the halls or go in someone else's classroom. You will get me in trouble and then I'll have to send you some place when I am gone. Have a great weekend.

Tech Tidbit

VERY IMPORTANT: Do not plug both ends of a cat 5 cable into the same switch or hub or even into a wall jack. The creates a loop that will take the entire network down. This happened on Wednesday and no one could get on the web at all--thus all the lunch computers were down, e-mail, etc... I know this was an accident but be very careful!

November 18, 2010

Thursday: AJ, Scott, & Conner--you all need to get your gmail account set up and send me an e-mail pronto. I can't share my document with you for the assignment until you do. Once you send me an e-mail and I share with you, you will get an e-mail from me with the document info or better yet, just click on the documents link once you login to Google and there will be the shared document I have sent to you. Your assignment is there. You should first spend a couple of days finding information to put in your web site. Gather pictures and information about your artist or group. Then you can start planning and preparing the web site. This can be done from home or school. This project will be due around December 15.

November 17, 2010

Wednesday: Please make sure you have your google e-mail account set up before you come to class tomorrow. I want to go over with you the google doc I'm going to share and the assignment. I want you to work on that on Friday when I am gone. If you have not converted your video to a flv file yet, please do so today. The swf file worked ok but we couldn't start and stop the video. With flv you can.

November 16, 2010

Tuesday: We are having trouble today with Netsweeper Business that is installed individually on each pc. We can delete this little program because I filter at the router/server level now. I just didn't take it off before because it wasn't hurting anything. But today, it broke! This is causing some of the computers to not be able to go to some websites. I will give you instructions on how to take this little program off and we will visit all the student computers in the elem, ms, and the hs library. My lab will have to be done sometime soon also.

HOMEWORK: I need everyone to create a Google e-mail address. The project we are going to do is going to require this. Once you create the account, e-mail me at lori.kempker@gmail.com. Once I get your e-mail, I'll be sharing a document with you that has your Google assignment on it. Lets get this done by Thursday so I can be sure to get you the assignment before I'm gone on Friday.

November 15, 2010

Monday: I'm thinking about your next assignment and it will be using Google--Google docs, forms, web, and e-mail. I am going to have each of you create a web site using Google sites. If you have a strong desire to create a web site about something specific, let me know. Otherwise I will be giving you some tech topics. I will try to have the assignment information for you by Wednesday.

November 12, 2010

Friday: TGIF I'm going to try to continue on core data today. I have some sound issues I want some of you all to try to fix in the HS and other places. I picked up some sound splitters last night that had been backordered for ever.

November 11, 2010

Thursday: Veterens Day--Short schedule today because of the assembly and early release. We can still accomplish small things in 20-30 minutes. I am spending the afternoon, undisturbed, on Core Data. yeah!

November 10, 2010

Wednesday: I'm heading to Columbia in just a few minutes. I don't have any e-mails this morning from anyone needing help. I would like 2nd and 4th hour to continue working on the MS lab. Everyone else make sure you can get on Google Docs. You should be able to use the login and password that you use with this account. I am going to be giving assignments using google docs, calendar, and web. Take a look around and experiment a little. If I get e-mails while I'm goin, I'll text whoever is in class that hour.

Tech Tidbit

Sometimes a computer makes noises when it starts up or is trying to startup but never does. Mrs. Crawford's pc was giving me 3 long beeps and wouldn't show anything on the screen. There are websites that will tell you what the beep codes mean. When the computer starts up it is running a post test and the beep codes result from a failure in that post test. I want everyone to go to this website: http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm and read the Post ABC's and the Steps of a Post. Then scan down the document to see what the beep codes can mean. The 3 long beeps indicated there was somthing wrong with the memory so I shut the machine down, took out the memory and put it back in. The computer booted right up. Simple fix if you know where to look for help.

November 9, 2010

Tuesday: Well, I bought a new laptop for home last night. I'm pretty excited. It is a Toshiba with an i3 processor, 4 gb of RAM, web cam etc... And I only paid $450. I have been watching the sales and feel this is a good price for what I'm getting. I'll let you know after I get it going. We have the MS lab to get updated today and a few other items that need to be tended to. Have a good day.

Oh yea, I will be gone tomorrow, Wednesday. I will be in Columbia at Dreamweaver training. This is to learn how to use the new program for updating the website. I will leave a note on my PC monitor with instructions or on the blog. I'll see how far we get today with stuff.

November 8, 2010

Monday: I am in Columbia this morning for a meeting at Morenet and will be in around noon. I got a call on Saturday from Mrs. Gampher that they were in the MS Lab for a workshop and a lot of the computers were giving error messages for Vixera and Windows updates. If you are finished with your video, please go to the MS and turn OFF clean slate and start doing Vixera updates and try Windows updates. The Wind updates may not go, and that's ok but we need to get Vixera going correctly. Whoever goes over there first needs to start a list on a piece of paper and record which machines you finish so the next group knows what is done. If you need to finish your video, do that first. I don't know if today is a green or white day so the lab may be full anyway, but check it out. You can text me if you need to. I should be able to respond. Have a good day.

November 5, 2010

Friday: Everyone should get their videos finished up today and converted to a .swf file for the web. There is a folder on the C drive of the computer in my room called Video Exports that you should make another folder inside of with your name on it and put your final product on. I will work on getting those on the web next week. Or should I say Zach will. :)

November 4, 2010

Thursday: A little behind on the blogging today. Several meetings and webinar in the morning put me way behind. Working on getting a mailing out to all parents about School Messenger. I may be putting you all to work helping get that out next week.

November 3, 2010

Wednesday: Remember your videos are due on Friday but I want to look at them to give you suggestions so you get a good grade. I will be gone a 1/2 day on Monday for a meeting in Columbia on our Internet services and all day on Wednesday for some web development training. I hope to have the next project ready some time next week.

Good luck to the football team! Bring home a victory.

November 2, 2010

Tuesday: My goal today is to get letters out to all faculty and staff regarding our new School Messenger web interface. I will then move to core data. I want you to make sure you have your video's done by Friday and I want to look at them and give you suggestions before you turn them in. If I don't look at them, don't be upset if you have points taken off. Tell me if you need class time to and I'm sending you some place. lk

Tech Tidbit

I am going to start writing Tech Tidbits in here when I want to tell everyone about something or how to do something new. Sometimes I tell one or two of you and then I get busy with other problems and forget. So you are responsible for reading these and trying to remember them but you do not have to respond to them.

Here's something new I learned today: There is an error log that can help you figure out why a machine is acting up. If you right click on My Computer, go to Manage, then event viewer, then system, you will see the system logs. Here you can find red X's with error messages and yellow ! with warnings. These can be helpful to why a machine is acting up. I found a machine in Mrs. Buschjost's room that keeps shutting down and there were multiple error messages about Vixera. This could be the problem with sudden shut downs. You should find a machine and see if you can find this log.

November 1, 2010

Monday: Hope everyone had a great weekend and you got your fill of candy. I would like video projects to be completed this week. Have me look over them when you think you are about done so I can tell you what to add or how to finish them up. Everyone should use an entry title and subtitle if it is hard to hear you or you think they need further instructions. Put credits at the end with your name. I want to give the cameras to the other school soon.