March Post -- Gwen Miller

During March my class made surveys on Survey Monkey.  We made a survey for the entire school to take.  We were trying to find out how the current high school student go in a class at the Tech Center, if they were aware of the 4 classes need to be a completer, if they were going to take all 4 classes and if not, why?  The office decided to get a paid subscription to Survey Monkey since with the free site you can only survey 100 people.  As of today, we are still waiting to get the paid subscription up and running.  We have also been using PhotoStory to make public service announcements in the Advertising class.  We made print ads in Word for a car the school is raffling off and got one student's published in the local Trading Journal. We have also made a virtual car tour and are hoping to get one student's posted on our Edline page. 

I helped several teachers turn off vacation days in Edline (since the IS days were converted to instructional days).  I also helped some teachers get their students on Key Train. I have been trying to help our first year Machine Shop teacher get started using his whiteboard.  There have been major problems finding all the cords and the pen and a place to to hook it up in the shop.  I know he is overwhelmed and I am trying to to add to the stress with the whiteboard.  He said his students say the never saw assignments he writes on the board.  I showed him how he could write them on the whiteboard, have every student sign the page and then save the page.  He did like that idea. 

I continued to put put messages on the outdoor sign and I am learning more about the system.  I still can't get a graphic to work, but I will keep trying.  I have to visit every teacher who did not have their syllabus posted on Edline and offer to assist them in putting it on before the TCTW team arrived.